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The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri ill. Anna Bosch Miralpeix

June 28, 2022 By achuka Leave a Comment

2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honour Book

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“The strength of the volume is its focus on real children, including five-year-old Matin from Afghanistan, his friends Ahmad and Hashmat, and his ten-year-old sister Mobina and her friends. Both text and photos compassionately humanize young refugees who, despite coping with unimaginable trauma, have talents and dreams; readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the refugee crisis, which is addressed more fully in a lengthy afterword.” Horn Book

An unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time – and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author’s reflections on life in a refugee camp.

Anna Bosch Miralpeix is a documentary photographer whose projects include the award-winning Bubble Beirut. A graduate of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, she is also a teacher and visual project developer.

Filed Under: NonFiction, YA Tagged With: documentary, photography, refugees

BBC investigates whether Lewis Carroll was ‘repressed paedophile’ after nude photo discovery

January 26, 2015 By achuka Leave a Comment

Promises to be a very irritating documentary…

The BBC is to broadcast a controversial new documentary exploring whether Lewis Carroll was a ‘repressed paedophile’, on the 150th anniversary of his beloved children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The potentially-explosive programme, presented by Martha Kearney, will explore the nature of Carroll relationship with children, and feelings toward the real Alice, the inspiration behind his most famous work.
The show, in which he is referred to by a contributor as a “heavily repressed paedophile”, will detail a newly-discovered photograph of a naked girl from a forgotten archive, said to show a “shockingly different” side to the author’s friendship with children.
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It will debate whether new evidence shows Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, took an interest in sexualising young children and teenagers, and whether he should or could be considered a “Victorian Jimmy Savile”. [!]

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The picture, which is not comprehensively proven to have been taken by Carroll [my epmphasis], is believed to show Alice’s elder sister entirely nude, in a full-frontal pose described by Kearney as something “no parent would ever have consented to”.

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Will Self, the author, said of Carroll: “Dodgson himself, I think, was a heavily repressed paedophile, without doubt [again my emphasis].

via BBC investigates whether Lewis Carroll was 'repressed paedophile' after nude photo discovery – Telegraph.

The documentary, The Secret World of Lewis Carroll, will be broadcast on BBC Two on Saturday, January 31 at 9pm.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: documentary, nudity, photography, sensational

Elevating Moments of Everyday Life: Interview with Stella Johnson — Eric Kim Street Photography

January 10, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

Photographer Stella Johnson has been interviewed and featured by Eric Kim.

The work of Boston photographer Stella Johnson is grounded in her photography training at The San Francisco Art Institute and her advanced degree from Boston University. Stella was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2003-2004 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Mexico, in 2006, for photographing and teaching, respectively and a Visiting Scholar to the School of Art, Northeastern University, in 2007.

She teaches at the Lesley University College of Art and Design, at Boston University and at the Maine Media Workshops in Crete, Greece and Rockport, Maine. Her work is showcased in her monograph AL SOL: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua, published in 2008 by the University of Maine Press.

via Elevating Moments of Everyday Life: Interview with Stella Johnson — Eric Kim Street Photography.

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: documentary, Eric Kim, photography, Stella Johnson

John Free On The Importance Of ‘Practice’ In Street/Documentary Photography

August 16, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

About John Free

Filed Under: Blog, Photography/Art Tagged With: camera, documentary, photography, practice, practising, street

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