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A New Global Movement Against Banking Elites
After reading a compelling excerpt of a speech made by Naomi Klein and printed in the Guardian I wanted to learn more about the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. This film helps explain what is happening on the ground in New York at the moment. Klein’s speech is a real wake up call!
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
I was a pretty big fan!
Simples…
If I was ever in danger of thinking that the world we live in makes sense then this job demands a rethink. I was kindly asked by Passion Pictures to take some shots of Newcastle for their “Compare The Meerkat” campaign. These have turned in to Aleksander the Meerkat’s holiday snaps on facebook. It’s a surprisingly involved creative process imagining you are an 80cm high upper class meerkat when considering compositions.
Bill Nighy
Portrait of legendary actor Bill Nighy taken at the Edinburgh Film Festival for BAFTA Scotland
Litter Bin - 1… Plastic Fence - 0
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ — quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
Calling all Feminists?
I need some help with a new project… I’ve recently made a connection with an Edinburgh based feminist group and I am hoping to begin a photographic project plus a series of interviews with women (or Bill Bailey) who identify as feminists. The idea would be to showcase a contemporary feminist community’s viewpoints and identities through written and photographic portraits of individuals. To broaden my feminist network I am asking if you or someone you know might be interested then please get in touch aly@alywight.com
Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence
In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Didn’t think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict — and not to the nonviolent leaders who may one day bring peace.
Mourning America’s war dead
The small Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico, has experienced a high number of military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. Corporal Lyle Cambridge was killed in 2005 when his vehicle hit an improvised bomb outside Baghdad. His mother, Virginia Jim, discusses the impact of war on the Native American community.
Naomi Klein On The Rioting
A brilliantly written article in the Guardian about the rioting in England.
50 Years of Amnesty International
It would be great to think that we won’t need it in another 50… or sooner. Until that point it needs to get it’s message out and has started Amnesty TV.
“Silver City Soul”
I recently discovered Adam Proctor, a talented scottish video-artist based in Aberdeen. He has worked with the National Galleries Of Scotland to produce this beautiful portrait of the granite city.
“I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.”
Lucian Freud
