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Re-foresting the desert humans made

Carmen Gray / September 1, 2019

CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.

Africa, Alexander Asen, Burkina Faso, City of God, climate, climate change, ecology, Ethiopia, Fernando Meirelles, Inna Modja, jared p. scott, Libya, Mali, Niger, nigeria, Sahara, Sarah Macdonald, Senegal, Sian Kevill, The Great Green Wall, The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Venice Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival

The knot in the heart

Truls Lie / January 4, 2019

PHOTOGRAPHY:For almost 50 years, the photographer Eugene Richards has documented a variety of destinies, from crack addicts to people in emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals. What has driven him?

9/11, Afghanistan, African Americans, African-American, AIDS, America, An American Exodus, Aperture, April Watson, Arkansas Delta, criticism, Doctors Without Borders, Dorchester, Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lynch, drug abuse, Eugene Richards, exhibition, George Eastman Museum in Rochester, ICP, Iraq, Janine Altongy, Javier Bardem, knot in the heart, Ku Klux Clan, Lisa Hostetler, Martin Luther King, Massachusetts, Melvin Cook, Mexico, Minor White, misery, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New York, New York City, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, newspaper Many Voices, Niger, No Country for Old Men, North Dakota, NY, Paul S. Taylor, photographer, photography, PHOTOGRAPHY:, poverty, racist, Robert Frank, Robert Kennedy, socioeconomic, Stepping Through the Ashes, terrorism, The International Center of Photography, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Run-On of Time, Thy Kingdom Come, vietnam war, war, War and Terrorism, William Eugene Smith

Political Protest in Contemporary Africa

The power of mobilisation

Ketil Fred Hansen / November 1, 2018

AFRICA: Political resistance in Africa is led by the middle-class, while the poor gather in the streets.

Africa, colonial rule, Democracy, Malawi, Mali, middle class, Niger, Senegal

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