africa.concerned_photography*
Posted: May 24th, 2009 | Author: kamau | Filed under: migration, photography, politics | Comments Off
Screen shot from Krisanne Johnson’s portfolio web site. © K. Johnson
Krisanne Johnson: ”I Love You Real Fast”.
Swaziland reports the highest percentage of HIV-positive people in the world, with the hardest hit being women aged 15-24.
SEE ALSO: Generation Next: Youth in South Africa. Images in this series featured in the kwaito story, FADER 52 (AFRICA).
Screen shot from Michael Zumstein’s photo essay at the Oeil Public web site. © M. Zumstein
Michael Zumstein: Mothers against the Atlantic: Senegal 2006
Since January 2006, about 50 young Senegalese from Thiaroye’s neighbourhood have been lost at sea trying to get to the Canary Islands in dugout.
Getting together mothers who lost their son at sea, the Group of Thiaroye’s Women tries to dissuade the young people to leave and risk their life.
SEE ALSO: Women at war Cote d’Ivoire 2004: Photo essay about women who joined the rebel forces in Ivory Coast’s civil war.
“The concerned photographer finds much in the present unacceptable which he tries to alter. Our goal is simply to let the world also know why it is unacceptable.”
–Cornell Capa (b. 1918), photographer
