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LuminAID by Anna Stork & Andrea Areshta
LuminAID is an ingenious natural lighting system developed by Anna Storck and Andrea Areshta. Using photovoltaic energy and LED bulbs, LuminAID produces light with no need to be plugged to an electric circuit. A 5 hours exposure to the rays of sunshine loads the battery and allows 6 to 8 hours of lighting in the HIGH mode [...]
A New American Picture by Doug Rickard
Discovering Google Street View, the photographer Doug Rickard immediately saw a way to portray the deep America, the off-camera of the United Sates, or, as he likes to say, the other face of the American Dream. Convinced of the range and the artistic power of that tool ,he began to explore cities and suburbs, roads and streets, [...]
Slinkachu – Balancing Act for Baphumelele Children Project
While his exhibition “Global Model Village” will start on September 27 at the Andipa Gallery in London and on October 3 in New York, Slinkachu announced the sell during the two events of a picture showing his installation “Balancing Act”. A percentage of the income will be [...]
JR – Be The Change @ Mulhouse
On September 22, Mulhouse, as 30 other cities across the world, will host “Be The Change”, the new exhibition of the French photographer JR.
Final point to the “Inside Out” project, this event intends to put up on the same day 1000 portraits in every selected metropolis. An initiative with an [...]
Amnesty International – Hooded (Video)
Amnesty International, which celebrated last year its 50th anniversary, has just unveiled a new short film. Entitled “Hooded”, the movie exists as part of the “Security with Human Right” campaign that aims to denounce and stop the restrictions to human rights common in the struggle that wage, in [...]
Amnesty International – Ink (Video)
Here is the new spot of Amnesty International. A short-movie about one minute, directed by Cyrille de Vignemont (aka Danakil) and produced by Wanda. Conceptual video named “Ink”, the film efficiently figures the power of ink to face physical violence. Let’s remind that you can directly support the actions of Amnesty [...]
Testimony – Western Ivory Coast
We all remember what happened after the Ivorian presidential elections of 2010. Six months of conflicts with one only stake, the respect of the results. Backed and helped by the international community, the elected candidate, Alassane Ouattara will finally reach the power in May 2011 after the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo had been captured. Yet, each side committed atrocities [...]
Trash Land by José Ferreira
Imagine yourself, child of the new century, accustomed to glamour, over-brilliance and desirable, suddenly exposed to the third-world, its misery, smells and, for us, drug-addicted to post-modernity, its inconceivable effectiveness. Well, that’s what, more or less, the young portuguese photographer José Ferreira lived during his trip to Mozambique. At a few steps from the national airport of [...]
Testimony of a Snail for Sequoia
Generally, we hate to promote commercials. It’s just as we were selling a sell. But we haven’t been able to resist to the “Testimony of a Snail”. Existential rantings that will break your heart … or tear your zygomatic! For SEQUOIA, by the parisian agency Marcel, directed by Andy’s and awarded with a bronze lion in Cannes.
