photography
Patagonia | Mustafa Abdulaziz: Cowboy Stories
February 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Mustafa Abdulaziz, Cowboy in Mountains, Patagonia Cowboy series. 2008 (Courtesy of the Artist)
“The power of the photograph can shine a light of knowledge and inspiration into places where there was once only darkness,” says photographer Mustafa Abdulaziz. Coming from a Dutch/Afro-Caribbean heritage, Abdulaziz’s work centers on “people and cultures whose lives may not contain the drama of spot news or the visceral power of war and conflict, but whose daily struggles and ways of life are changing as our world moves into this new century.”
Cambodia | FOCUS on Eric de Vries
February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Ratanakkiri Province, Cambodia
FOCUS: the story behind the image
Dutch photographer Eric de Vries is living in Cambodia, the country he’s been travelling in since 2000. He takes of note behind the lens to reveal the story of this image capturing two young children from the hill tribes of the Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia.
US | Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
September 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Mohamed Keita
Photo: Bud Lee, “Life,” July 28, 1967
Lest we forget, it was the gruesome images of police brutality in places like Montgomery or Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that brought a human rights crisis into worldview. President John F. Kennedy would disclose to aides that he had been make sick by a New York Times front page photograph showing a police dog chewing on the stomach of a teenager.
The critical contribution of the image to the struggle for equality and justice is on view at the International Center of Photography in For all the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights—a multimedia exhibition contemplating the power of mass media in shaping, for better or worse, the attitudes of our society. You put up the money required for bail. You’ve followed all of the restrictions of your bail. You feel that you have done everything right in this situation. So, when do you get bail money back if innocent? It is important to remember that this post is regarded with bail money that was paid fully in cash, also known as a cash bond.
