‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home.
Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets out to shift [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Photography & journalism'
HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist
June 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Actuality · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Photography & journalism · Politics & International Relations · Society · Sustainable Development · World
Rebuild Your Future
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou.
See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl
Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Developing Countries · Photography & journalism · Society · Youth
Images des Maroc
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Just back from Morocco and studying again… Here are some pictures from an interesting journey through the High Atlas, through the Sahara and along the Atlantic Coast.
Tags: Articles by Christopher Baan · Developing Countries · Photography & journalism
Stand with the Burmese Protesters
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Burma is ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world. This week Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call for democracy. The protests spread and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people joined in — they’ve been brutally attacked by the military regime, but still the protests are spreading.
I [...]
Tags: Actuality · Asia · Photography & journalism · Politics & International Relations · Society · War & Terrorism · World
Act of Faith
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Is faith permissible? Or is faith compulsory? How sacred is the line separating church and state today, long the unquestioned foundation of Western democracy? How firm is the theory of evolution? How conceivable is unbelief?
The press on earlier Noorderlicht Photofestivals
‘Fascinating, original, (..) with depth’ (NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands)
‘Belief: indispensable for one, unthinkable for [...]
Tags: Actuality · Art & Culture · Photography & journalism · Society · World
