Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Read more: Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega“is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I…
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Not Photoshopped
Read more: Not PhotoshoppedFrom StyleCaster: The debate over body image seems like an uphill battle in the fashion industry. The industry seems as if it’s trying to change things by creating guidelines and rules for models and fashion shows, but it doesn’t look…
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Bringing Safe Sexy Back
Read more: Bringing Safe Sexy BackIs there a way to make sex ed, big, scary, nasty, icky, sex ed, fun again? In the Spring Quarter of of 2013, UCLA students in the Sex Squad, a performance troupe dedicated to injecting a dose of humor into…
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Negrotown
Read more: NegrotownThe video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA From Flavorwire: “Another world is possible!” — so goes the popular activist chant at rallies and marches. Yet one of the most difficult aspects of sustaining a grassroots political movement can be imagining that other world and…
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Take a Photo, Save a Child
Read more: Take a Photo, Save a ChildOn January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six,…
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Abandoned Love
Read more: Abandoned LoveUtilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr’s social network. Asking her followers “to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own…
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Domestic Tension
Read more: Domestic TensionWafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to…
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A Straight Journey: days and nights in their kingdom
Read more: A Straight Journey: days and nights in their kingdomA Straight Journey is a documentary of Chinese homosexual people. It is the first time for Chinese gays and lesbians to make their debut and speak out via one of the largest Chinese Internet service providers. Two Chinese photographers Masa…
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#FreeTheNipple Icelandic Style
Read more: #FreeTheNipple Icelandic StyleIt all started when an Icelandic girl took off her top on Twitter in a bid to promote sexual equality, only for her to be verbally attacked by some male Icelandic tit troll. Despite both comments being deleted, Twitter was…
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Abou Naddara
Read more: Abou NaddaraAbounaddara is a collective of self-taught and volunteer filmmakers involved in emergency cinema. Abou Naddara is the nickname for a man with glasses. It was chosen based on its use in Arab cities where ordinary people are identified by their…