Submitted this for the Human Rights new logo.

Go ahead, pitch your idea. It’s for a great cause.
humanrightslogo.net

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The history of industrial New York is deeply etched along the banks of this waterway separating the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Today it is among the most polluted creeks in the nation owing to a legacy of industry dating long before the environmental movement. With 4 miles of protected shore line, extensive rail connections and proximity to Manhattan, Newtown Creek was a natural place for industry to thrive in the mid-19th century. The former salt marsh transformed into an industrial canal and soon was home to some of the dirtiest businesses in the city. Oil refineries, glue factories, tanneries and copper refineries sprouted up along the creek into the 20th leaving a toxic legacy that lingers underneath the ground. > by Noah Devereaux
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A short film about colour blindness.

My 6 year old son Liam is colourblind so this is a nice little glimpse of his daily reality… kind of..

Ishihara by Yoav Brill
- Winner of the 2010 Haifa film festival for best animated film.
- To be featured in the Animated Encounters Festival in Bristol, with the support of the British Council in Israel.

Same spot, 100 years later..

Mulberry Street – 1900 – Library of Congress

Mulberry Street – 2010 – google Street view

Canal Street – 1900 – Library of Congress

Canal Street – 2010 – google Street view

ooooh..
Some buildings are still there. But, yeah.. not the same vibe.
Sad really.

no pressure

1010global.org

classesmoyennes-afrique.org

Diner de famille chez Guy Désiré Nouboussi dans la petite ville de Buea. Il est directeur dans une petite école primaire et également agriculteur pour compléter ses revenus. il vient de se lancer dans la commercialisation des œufs de caille. Il est inquiet car son plus jeune fils s’est diplômé il y a 2 ans et ne trouve toujours pas de travail (Buea)

Dans le salon de Joseph Pousseu. Fonctionnaire, il dirige le service de promotion de la Femme après avoir été pendant professeur pendant plus de 30 ans. Il est membre du Rotary Club de Douala. Il a fait construire sa maison dans le quartier de Ndog Bomg, autrefois à la campagne, et aujourd’hui banlieue de Douala. Avec l’augmentation des prix de l’immobilier, il serait incapable de faire construire ici aujourd’hui (Douala)

Adonis chez lui mime sa tentative de suicide. Très croyant, il a été répudié par l’église évangéliste qu’il fréquentait car un ami l’a accusé d’homosexualité. Il alors essayé de s’électrocuter en découpant le fil de ce ventilateur. Hétéro, il milite dans une association de défense des gays, mais pense malgré tout “qu’être gay est un péché” (Douala)

A 4h du matin Christine prie avant le début de sa journée. Elle travaille comme assistante sociale dans le service Sida de l’hôpital de Yaounde. Son mari, autrefois banquier, a été licencié il y a 10 ans et depuis tient une boutique près de la maison. Il ont pu devenir propriétaire car au départ de son mari, la banque a soldé leur crédit immobilier (Yaoundé)

Guy Désiré dans son jardin regarde son fils essayer de capturer une poule. Il doit la livrer à un client ce matin avant d’aller au travail, dans l’école primaire dont il a la direction (Buea)

Immeuble d’habitation dans le quartier de Bonanjo (Douala)

Publicité pour la bière Amstel près de Buea.

Joseph Pousseu dans son bureau de chef de service au sein du ministère de la promotion de la femme.

CLEVER LITTLE BAG :

With the ‘CLEVER LITTLE BAG :’, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of it’s sustainability program.
The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year.

In other words:
approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed,
20 million Mega joules of electricity saved,
1 million liters less fuel oil used and
1 million liters of water conserved.
During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly,
by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
That’s only one brand, I hope others will follow.

But having said that, where am I going to put my bills for my income Tax?
Andif they’re just switching cardboard for fabric (cause they’re still using a lot of material) than what’s the real impact?

Expected to hit the shelves globally by 2011.

The Places We Live (an interactive exhibition produced in cooperation with the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo) renders the day to day portrait of sixteen households located in 4 slums:
Caracas-Venezuella, Kibera-Nairobi-Kenya, Dharavi-Mumbai-India, Jakarta-Indonesia.
Life size images and audio segments in the exhibition help create the experience of a personal encounter with the slum dwellers. Each slum is represented by one room, where all four walls are built out of rear-projection canvas.

here are a couple of samples :

With a population swelling above 18 million, Mumbai is the world’s most densely populated urban area.
Even though it is the richest city of india, about two-thirds of its residents live in poverty, or slums.
Dharavi, Mumbai’s most infamous slum, is home to about one million residents living off the official city grid.
It is likely to vanish within a decade to make way to middle class apartment blocks.

This is the Shilpiri Household (Dharavi, mumbai, India) : [ PLAY the vocal translation : ]

Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum, is home to a quarter of the Nairobi’s population.
About 700 000 people squeeze into a piece of land the size of New York’s Central Park.
Because of it’s unauthorized status, ir receives no municipal services such as public water, sanitation, schools, health care, etc.

This is the Arori Household (Kibera, Nairobi, kenya) : [ PLAY the vocal translation : ]

The scariest images you can find are the ones of kid’s beauty pageants contestants.
Susan Anderson‘s pictures are straight shots of little girls (as young as 4) in their competitive finery.

Artifice runs so high it verges on the grotesque.

The crumbling island Hashima [a former coal mining facility] was once the most densely populated place on earth : In the 50′s over 13k people shared each square kilometre in its high-rises. It operated from 1887 until 1974 under Mitsubishi Motors co. But when the coal industry fell into decline, the mines were shut.

Packing what they could, leaving the rest to rot, the entire island population fled to the mainland in the blink of an eye…

…leaving the island in oblivion and disrepair.

more images here and here