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Always nice to come across a worthwhile participatory photography initiative, even nicer to find one set up in my old manor. Fotosynthesis was established in 2010 by a group of professional photographers, and is now based out of the Lilian Baylis Old School in Kennington, South London. They run a darkroom and studio space where [...]
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I picked up this interesting initiative from a tweet by duckrabbit this morning. The BBC story is rather inspiring and worth a read. I won’t regurgitate it here. However, in summary – the photographer, Lee Karen Stow, was born in Hull, which happens to be twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone. She went to the [...]
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From what I can gather this is part of an EU-China government project looking at the impact of ‘village self governance‘ reforms in rural China (grass-roots democracy). Basically, they went to 10 villages and gave 100 people either a stills camera or video camera and asked them to record the politics of the village. Now [...]
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I was at the British Embassy in Kathmandu a couple of weeks back to attend a gathering on enforced disappearances. The event marked the 6th anniversary of the killing a 15-year-old girl, Maina Sunuwar, in 2004 by the Nepal Army. The main draw was the première of a short film entitled, ‘Awaiting Justice‘ (presented as [...]
Filed under: Article, Campaigning, Film | Tagged: Africa, Algeria, Americas, Argentina, armed conflict, Asia, Chile, disappearances, Middle East&North Africa, Nepal, NGO, participatory photography, Peru, photographers, representation, South America, South Asia | Leave a Comment »
I know, I know, its a bit of a headline title but as this article rounds of one year dedicated to looking at the use of photography, video and all that other visual stuff used in social activism I thought it appropriate to end with a grand claim. But to be honest with you I [...]
Filed under: Article, Campaigning | Tagged: famine, NGO, participatory photography, representation, research | 7 Comments »
‘Proxy wars’, do diets work ? and the 2009 Ashes series OK, I am going to be a bit flippant and suggest first-up that the debate about whether participatory photography (PP) represents the greatest thing since sliced bread or is an ineffective use of resources that perpetuates neo-colonial attitudes in development is; 1) a stupid [...]
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I have just contributed an article to the Amnesty International Australia website looking at the use of visual media in campaigning for the rights of individuals at risk.
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‘This is Kroo Bay’ is an interactive multi-media participatory web project working from the Kroo Bay slum in Free Town, Sierra Leone. This Save the Children (UK) project presents a series of four interactive ‘scenes’ or ‘webisodes’ based around panoramic photos using Flash Panorama Player (similar to the work done by Gideon Mendell for The [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Multi-media | Tagged: Africa, MDG, NGO, participatory photography, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Leave a Comment »
Article by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh on participatory photo project with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon published on ARTEEAST.
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