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Famine photographs and the need for careful critique
The photographic reporting of famine, especially in ‘Africa’, continues to replicate stereotypes. Malnourished children, either pictured alone in passive poses or with their mothers at hand, continue...
View Article“Exploiting the Poor Through the Images We Use?”
On a World Bank blog – published by the Communication for Governance & Accountability Program (CommGAP) – Antonio Lambino has written two posts about how the majority world is pictured. In the...
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Starved for Attention – malnutrition in context?
Starved for Attention, the collaboration between MSF and VII to draw attention to the problem of endemic malnutrition, attempts to put the issue in context. In an interesting interview, Marcus...
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Representing the Majority World: Famine, Photojournalism and the Changing...
After eight years work that included the Imaging Famine project, my PhD thesis, which examines the visual discourse of photojournalism and explores its role in constructing the imagined geography of...
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Food Security Risk Index 2010
Last week The Guardian published a graphic showing the food security risk index. It demonstrates the chronic, global problems with food supply, and provides the context for all famine stories.
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“Haiti and the truth about NGOs”– radio documentary
UK aid being unloaded and distributed in Haiti from the Royal Fleet Auxillary ship Largs Bay. Photo: DFID. On 11 January BBC Radio 4 ran a documentary entitled “Haiti and the truth about NGO’s”. The...
View ArticleFamine coverage, from Malawi to East Africa
In recent months I’ve written a series of posts on famine coverage in ‘Africa’. If you missed these posts at my personal blog, here are some excerpts and links: Stereotypes that Move: in a forthcoming...
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