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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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MSF’s ‘Starved for Attention‘ series of multi-media pieces by prominent photographers is well worth a look. As is this interview with one of them, Jessica Dimmock. </object>
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I recently completed a photographic project entitled ‘Sweet Salone: Portraits of Contemporary Sierra Leone’ – kindly featured on this website by Rob. What did I hope to achieve with this project? Simply to provide an insight into the lives of a few Sierra Leoneans in the hope that it might produce a more nuanced representation [...]
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After yesterday’s BoP post here is another admirable attempt to look at the issue of ‘poverty’ in a more positive light. Sophia Spring’s photos for FOTO8 of Sierra Leone attempt to capture nuances, individuals and the reality that is separate from the one dimensional view often projected by INGOs and the media. Development organisations have [...]
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Ever since I came across the website ‘This is Kroo Bay’ last year wanted to learn more about how such a comprehensive and innovative approach came about. Well, thanks to Rachel Palmer, Photography & Film Manager at Save the Children UK I got what I wanted. ‘This is Kroo Bay’ needs to be seen – [...]
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Amnesty continue to have a dig at Shell for their work in the Niger Delta with this new video and ad. The sarcasm that annoyed a couple of those who commented on the video is largely a parody of a Shell CSR ad (I guess much of the narrative is taken directly from one of [...]
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Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project and Revenue Watch Institute hosted a panel discussion on oil in the Niger Delta and the use of photography in advocating for social change. Ed Kashi and Michael Watts discussed their new book Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Click here to [...]
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Amnesty International UK campaign on their ‘Protect the Human’ blog highlights the damage Shell is doing in the Niger Delta using Google Maps and photos.
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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.
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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 [...]
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