poverty Archives

The documents that revealed the worldwide theft from the public purse

Nick Holdsworth / February 25, 2019

CORRUPTION: Alex Winter’s behind-the-scenes story of how an international consortium of journalists broke the story of the Panama Papers plays like a compulsive thriller.

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

How the toleration of crime can change everything

Bianca-Olivia Nita / November 13, 2018

A film revealing the many faces of decades of organised crime in Southern Italy.

bars, Camorra, Campania, children, chronologically, cigarettes, context, control, crime, criminal, decades, economic, Francesco Patierno, IDFA, illegal, Italian, Italy, Mafia, Marseille, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, mosaic, Napoli, organisation, organisations, palpable, poverty, power, Raffaele Cutolo, Rai Teche, Sicily, social, social classes, survive, system, Todos Contentos y Yo Tambien Napoli, WWII

Zero conference and Nobel prices

Truls Lie / November 6, 2018

CLIMATE CHANGE: If you are prone to dismiss warnings about environmental destruction as exaggerations, you might as well stop reading right away.

bio-economy, Celsius, China, CICERO, climate, climate change, Climate Conference, CO2, consumer, consumerism, consumption, corals, Dark Age, deserts, eco-philosophers, ecology, Economist, ecosystems, emission-free, energy, environment, environmental, Fossil-energy, Frede Vestergård, Germany, Glen Peters, global warming, green growth, green leadership, green transport, greenhouse, greenhouse effects, heat waves, Hoesung Lee, Industrial Age, industrialisation, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, jungle, Mumbai, new Dark Age, Nobel Economics Prize, Nobel-prize, Norway, Ny Tid, ocean, Oslo, paris, Paul Romer, plastic jungle, poverty, recycling, renewable energy, savannahs, solar cells, South Korea, sovereign, Taiwan, tech optimists, temperatures, The Economist, urbanisation, Weekendavisen, William Nordhaus, Yale, Zero Conference

The energy revolution

Anders Dunker / June 29, 2017

TRUE DEFINITION OF A REVOLUTION: It is imperative to rouse people to take control of the issue themselves – if we want Earth to survive, says Carl-A. Fechner.

Carl-A. Fechner, ecology, electricity, Germany, hunger, industrial revolution, Karla Fiehring, Katja Bald, lack of water, Lisa Kohn, nuclear war, poverty, Power to Change – The Energyrebellion, revolution

Devoted depiction of impoverished salt workers

Endre Larsen / September 15, 2016

The Indian salt production is one of the worlds largest. Farida Pacha introduces us to a family who live and work with honour – but also poverty – extant.

family, Farida Pacha, gujarat, India, My Name Is Salt, poverty

What happens in Argentina?

Tue Steen Müller / July 1, 2004

The political documentary film is back. Some will say that it never went away, and they may be right. Nevertheless, I will argue that it is more visible now than it has been since the 1970s.

A Social Genocide, Fernando E. Solanas, poverty