One click to change the world
Not always, but the history of photography has taught us that often a click can change the world ... even more so today after the birth of network Shot4change , the international network of volunteers of photography was born from a year ago Aquila and rubble is now known around the world.
Its founder, Antonio Amendola, public servant and lover of photography, remember the debut in disbelief .... He went to Abruzzo and wandered among the rubble of the earthquake felt helpless. His friend, doctor, was in the ward to help the wounded. "And I ? What could I do that I am not a doctor, a nurse, a fireman?" I thought that photography could help those who were suffering, he could be a witness but also a vehicle for funds. I organized a photography workshop in Bari and the participants' money has been donated to charity hospital Coppito devastated by the earthquake. " Back in
Rome has established a network, shot after shot, is reinventing the social photography, the message is simple: "Tell local stories with pictures to change the world, share them and make them move .
In one year, joined more than 120 photographers, scattered throughout the four continents with each other masters such as Ed Kashi, who won World Press Photo and signature of the National Geographic, or as a border reporter Gabriele Torsello was kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2006.
Sometimes the volunteers take to the field of photography to create photographic services in support of those who have the means to pay a professional, as for example, happened to Casalecchio where for five days, the team of photographers Bologna Shoot 4 Change has followed the global anti-racist searching out the Iranian team was in camp in the name of Neda, the symbol of the Green Revolution. the eve of the World, another volunteer (the photojournalist Alfons Rodriguez of Barcelona) through Africa in search of shots starting with the football speak of racial and social integration, combating AIDS and sex discrimination. The Bengali
Sheikh Rajibul Islam has joined the network showing the poverty and desperation that led a people, in this case Muslims, to flee from their homeland to seek asylum and living conditions more humane.
And again ... Beb C. Reynol , Professor of Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, has documented the working conditions of 150 men engaged in a coal mine in Afghanistan; Claudio Genghini has followed for the 160 km Himalayan who earn their living by carrying huge weights on their shoulders , bound with belts of luck; Antonio Marcello - which is not a professional, but arranges for Uisp sports initiatives with social aims - has documented the first Vivicittà manifestation of stroke, which carries messages of peace, the environment and the social change, in Kinshasa, Congo. In Cairo, however, is the same Antonio Amendola to have photos taken in aid of the inhabitants of the city of the dead, the monumental cemetery inhabited by about 800,000 people, one of the largest slums in the world.
ideas are born and grow in the local network as a wikipedia the photo shoot ... who renounce the objectivity and comes into contact with his subjects , "Amendola said .... "F bears will not have changed the world with one click, but as we were told the people portrayed, at least we have changed their day .
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