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To balance yesterday’s moaning here is some better stuff on the Pakistan floods by UNICEF. It gives clear info combined with personal stories. Not perfect but certainly better than the Guardian/Oxfam offering. Check out other pieces by UNICEF on the same issue such as this photo essay.
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Photographer Andy Hall went to Pakistan for Oxfam to take photos of the floods six months on (published in the Guardian UK). Nice light. But that is about it. What about a Pakistani photographer? Or South Asian? Or a woman? Relevant? Well, yes. After all it is evident that they were denied good access because [...]
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I like Media Storm, in that they are slick and appear to know what they are doing. There have also been a couple of pieces on their website that I rather liked (particularly ‘Love in the First Person‘ and ‘Undesired‘). As such I always look forward to viewing a new batch of material produced by [...]
Filed under: Multi-media | Tagged: Africa, agriculture, Asia, Madagascar, Pakistan, South Asia, water | Leave a Comment »
Between 21 January and 11 April Whitechapel Gallery in London is hosting the photographic exhibition ‘Where Three Dreams Cross‘. The exhibition present photographs documenting the three countries from 1860 to the present day, with 300 works by 70 photographers and artists.
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The Open Society Institute has announced the winners of its Documentary Photography Project ‘Production Grant‘ for 2009. The grant aims to support photographers from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan and Pakistan documenting issues of social justice and human rights. Full list of winners here.
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The human rights violation of ‘disappearances’ has attracted a great deal of photographic interest and work. To mark the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August) here is a small selection of photographic work on the issue. Marcelo Brodsky’s ‘Buena Memoria‘ – on returning to Argentina Brodsky organised a 25th anniversary reunion of his class [...]
Filed under: Art, Photography | Tagged: Algeria, Americas, Argentina, Asia, Central America, Chile, disappearances, Kashmir, Mexico, Middle East&North Africa, Nepal, Pakistan, photographers, South America, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
Following on from my article on Raghu Rai’s photos of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal it is worth checking out the Greenpeace Photo Essay webpage. The photo essays are a mix, combining evidential images – basically an investigatory documentation approach to support their claims – and ‘witnessing’ documentary photography – either illustrating the beauty of nature or its destruction.
Filed under: Campaigning, Multi-media | Tagged: Africa, e-waste, environment, NGO, Nigeria, Pakistan, photographers, South Asia, West Africa | 1 Comment »
