Earthquake in Chile: Chilean Photographers Communicate Through Their Work
Photo by Luis Hidalgo ©
Article By Dora Leticia / Photos by Luis Hidalgo, Mauricio Vergara Seguel and Heia Kato
A special thanks to the Chilean photographers whose efforts to document this catastrophe and struggle help communicate what is going on in Chile, before and after the quake.
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Before the Quake: Chilean Photographer, Mauricio Vergara, Documents Life in Chile
Photographer: Mauricio Vergara Seguel ©
Email: mauriciovergara@vtr.net
Mauricio is a Chilean Freelance Photographer who documents life in Chile. These photographs were taken in Santiago, Chile and Southern Chile before the earthquake.
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“Photography Helps Children in Sierra Leone Realize their Right to Self-Expression”
© UNICEF Sierra Leone/2009/Davies
(Above) Fatmata Shaw, 13, is one of the beneficiaries of the UNICEF-supported Children’s Forum Network photography workshop in Sierra Leone. Children pose during the photography workshop in Sierra Leone.
By Issa Davies
In the run-up to 20 November 2009, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF is featuring [...]
Haiti: Doctors Without Borders In Haiti (Find Out How to Help)
From Doctors Without Borders
“Haiti: MSF Treats More Than 1,000 Patients; Inflatable Hospital on the Way”
January 14, 2010
“Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Port-au-Prince are treating large numbers of people who suffered fractures, head injuries and other major trauma during and after the January 12 earthquake.” Visit the Doctors Without Borders Website to [...]
Samantha Power Among Esquire’s Most Influential People of the 21st Century
Esquire Magazine named genocide scholar Samantha Power one of the most influential people of the 21st century – citing her critical involvement in the Save Darfur movement and a 2003 Pulitzer prize for her book A Problem from Hell.
What Norman Podhoretz is to the neocon movement Power is to this as-yet-unnamed force. (Neo-internationalism? Moral interventionism? [...]
Gorilla “Paradise” Found (National Geographic)
This is Great News ! – Dora Leticia
Dan Morrison for National Geographic News
Deep in the hinterlands of the Republic of the Congo lies a secret ape paradise that is home to 125,000 western lowland gorillas, researchers announced today.
The findings, if confirmed, would more than double the world’s estimated population of gorillas…
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