Comments on: Just another set of limb chopped Africans by a famous photographer

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:14:03 +0000

[...] another great comment A few posts back I commented on another set of photographs of limb chopped Africans. Tom White from Photography Lot (an awesome blog with some of the best [...]

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| duckrabbit — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:12:21 +0000

[...] few posts back I commented on another set of photographs of limb chopped [...]

By: Tom White

Tom White — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:01:57 +0000

A good friend of mine was born in Sierra Leone and has worked on a variety of projects in and about this country. I saw his photographs of amputees in the late 90′s. A few years ago he did a documentary on the diamond trade which focused on the rise of co-op mining schemes and the way people were trying to take control of their lives and work. It stated what many other similar projects did not – that the Sierra Leonians were trying to rebuild their country after years of war and that they needed help to help themselves, not pity at their plight. To show the effects is one thing, but that is not the same as showing the methods of recovery. I sometimes feel that if I were shown not just the problems but the ways in which these problems are being address and can be overcome, than I would be more inclined to help.

By: ciara leeming

ciara leeming — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:18:23 +0000

grrr…spam filter got me.

my first post said:

innit.
compare the effect from viewing this set of images to the experience you get from Jonathan Torgovnik’s Intended Consequences, for example http://www.mediastorm.org/0024.htm
then cast your eyes down below the media storm multimedia browser at all the ways you can help the Rwandan families and others like them to try to rebuild their lives
and then listen to Jonathan talking about the project and look at his eyes while he’s speaking. this is real photojournalism

By: ciara leeming

ciara leeming — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:41 +0000

sorry, the photographer interview is under an icon on the top right, marked ‘epilogue’

By: ciara leeming

ciara leeming — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:37 +0000

By: Stan B.

Stan B. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:34:14 +0000

What’s been done to these people will endure till their deaths, you don’t want people to forget- even though as we’ve already seen (way too many times), photographic documentation is no guarantee that it will prevent future occurrences, while furthering the pervading African horror story motif.

Your suggestion is clearly best- give voice to these people in their own words. It helps empower both their images and their lives, helping them transform from victims to survivors, and perhaps from survivors into advocates and activists.

By: Media Gatherers

Media Gatherers — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:44 +0000

Same old, same old?…

Leading the way for UK multimedia producers, the DuckRabbit has once again spoken – and as in most cases I am in complete agreement with the creatures errr…quacks.
The latest blog post brought so many thoughts and questions to mind about wh…