Blog Action Day 2009

Preview for Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

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The print version: La Gente Común / Everyday People

It is finally in print. I made the book for two reasons. One so that I could feel as though the project had reached a conclusion (because the recovering journalist in me still needs to see things in print) and so that I might give a copy to the Comedor.
You’re welcome to buy one too [...]

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Fundacion Leer and Villa 31

I was asked by Frank of Sugar & Spice to photograph as he and some of his employees volunteered with Fundación Leer in Villa 31. They took a school room with damaged walls, peeling paint, overall just depressingly ugly and transformed it into a reading corner with butterflies, snails and a large tree along [...]

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Los Pibes – a portrait project, part 1 (ongoing)

Below are portraits of the people at Comedor Los Pibes, La Boca, Argentina. This is not everyone who works there and there are also a few children included and they either have parents that work there or attend one of the after-school studies.
The Comedor Los Pibes can best be described as a social organization. They [...]

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The Human element: Poverty is not a series of statistics

This post is a part of Blog Action Day 2008 on poverty.
The difference between roughly 17% and 30% is over 4.5 million people and it is the difference between what Argentina officially reports as the number of poor in the country and the general wisdom of the non-governmental economists. As often in this country, it [...]

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Tatiana

I find I am photographing children more and more. I am drawn to their faces and their surroundings. I look to show the connection between the two, between the expressions you see in my images and where they live. This is not so say the children I have photographed do not laugh and play. They [...]

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Silvia’s house

My experience with living conditions and lifestyles in La Boca and around Buenos Aires continues. After meeting up with Gloria, we went to her sister’s house in La Boca for a mate. The images below are of the inside of Silvia Rodriguez’s house.

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Mariana’s house

Some images from inside Mariana’s house. I was introduced to Mariana through her mom, Gloria, who I am following. I have not fully edited the images from Gloria’s house and really need to keep shooting her story, so I am not ready to post images. But since I was over Mariana’s house I thought I’d [...]

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…and now for something completely different

This post is a collection of unrelated thoughts and events. Sorry to put them all into one, but I thought that would be easier than trying to post more than one entry. It gets somewhat irritating to be reading post after post on the same day. However, it is a long post… read it to [...]

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From my point of view

I had the opportunity today to hang out on the second floor of a community center, where I am photographing in La Boca, and watch kids across the street try to fix a bike. It had flat tires, so tinkering with the chain wasn’t going to help them much. It was however a reflection on [...]

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