Comments on: MSF Photoblog – a challenging perspective

By: onscreenkenya (ON SCREEN P KENYA)

onscreenkenya (ON SCREEN P KENYA) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:39:41 +0000

RT @bonifacemwangi: There are some awesome black African photographers, but they’re just not finding their way out of the ghetto.http://tinyurl.com/ct2oe2

By: myimagesmatter (Images Matter)

myimagesmatter (Images Matter) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:37:20 +0000

RT @bonifacemwangi: There are some awesome black African photographers, but they’re just not finding their way out of the ghetto.http://tinyurl.com/ct2oe2

By: duckrabbitblog (duckrabbit)

duckrabbitblog (duckrabbit) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:36:38 +0000

RT @bonifacemwangi: There are some awesome black African photographers, but they’re just not finding their way out of the ghetto.http://tinyurl.com/ct2oe2

By: bonifacemwangi (BONIFACE MWANGI)

bonifacemwangi (BONIFACE MWANGI) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:57:24 +0000

There are some awesome black African photographers, but they’re just not finding their way out of the ghetto.http://tinyurl.com/ct2oe2

By: $1,000! DuckRabbit challenges YOU to defend PDN’s Passive Racism « Prison Photography

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:17:38 +0000

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By: Brand Africa - what a disaster | duckrabbit - we produce beautifully crafted multimedia

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:12:26 +0000

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By: Janel Walter

Janel Walter — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:01:57 +0000

I am so glad you mentioned the word “empowerment”. This exact word was in my mind, today, as I watch CNN’s news of a 24 hour day of horror in Iraq with suicide bombings and the image of a 4 year old girl that miraculesly survived it surged. It made me angry and sad. I feel helpless as I watch the news from the comfort of my sofa in the comfort of my house. So I started thinking, how can I help? I am not a rich nor famous person. I cannot empower the good people to fight against the bad people, or can I? If so, how? I too am a big fan of MSF and commend their incredible works. However, it does feel that MSF and other organizations that aid those in need are only treating the symptoms and not the root cause of the problems. What needs to change then? You said it before, EMPOWERMENT. We need to train the people so they can do the job. I am not a health care professional or photographer, but just like me, a lot of people want and are willing to put the dollars where needed to provide empowerment to the people, so they can “save themselves” per say. Terrorists, drug lords, extremists and so on have all these in common: MONEY. They can continue to do what they do because they have the resources to do it. If we can come up with such resources to train the good people so in turn they can help themselves and others, I’m all ears. It appears, perhaps I’m wrong, that the money is there, MSF is a popular organization I think, so shifting gears in the way they do things might provide the solution, just like photographer Reza did. But it cannot be a one-person action. I am surprised the empowerment road has not been considered before, to me it’s the logic way to go.

By: MSF photo blog - a response | duckrabbit - we produce beautifully crafted multimedia

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:27:05 +0000

[...] Two days ago duckrabbit wrote some thoughts about MSF’s photoblog. [...]

By: David Campbell

David Campbell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:35:21 +0000

Once again you raise many good points and the reading of the MSF images is good, even if it is not surprising that MSF uses those images in that way. However, I am a little sceptical about “local” photographers being an easy and unproblematic solution — which is not to say the status quo is sufficient. You inspired me to think and write some more about this today, so I have put a lengthy post on my site (http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/04/23/aid-images-and-local-photographers/) in response to continue the debate.

By: David Campbell — Photography, Multimedia, Politics » Aid images, and the solution offered by local photographers

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:31:10 +0000

[...] or western aid workers ministering to victims who are passive, pathetic, poor and sick. Over on the duckrabbit blog – a regularly insightful source of photographic critique – there is an interesting breakdown of [...]