New York Times: Self-Portraits by Invisible People

Self-Portraits by Invisible People By CAROL KINO. SINCE the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico in 1519, the story of that country’s indigenous people has largely been told by others. And, since the 19th century, much of it has been told through photography. Read more

Mini-festival a showcase for Muslim youth

IPE Admin: Here is a great web article by Mari Sasano of the Edmonton Journal, published Thursday, February 14, 2008. And a quick update to the article: if you visit the Mosquer’s site, you’ll find the winning videos online. Great stuff. Enjoy. Read more

Time Magazine: Shootback: The Keenest Eyes of Africa

By VIVIENNE WALT/PARIS. If you were in Nairobi’s desperately poor neighborhood of Mathare during the mid-1990s, you might have seen a slender American woman wandering around the shanties, where nearly a million people live with minimal water supply amid puddles of raw sewage. The visitor was Lana Wong, a Harvard-educated fine-art photographer, who had come to Mathare with one aim: to teach teenagers how to shoot photographs. “I picked 31 kids, and handed them plastic $30 cameras and a roll of film each,” says Wong. “I wanted them to tell their own stories, rather than have me intervene. Most of them had never seen a camera.” Read more