Today is #World Malaria Day and it got me thinking about a close friend of mine who contracted malaria whilst overseas a few years ago. He didn’t feel ill until he’d returned to the UK and thankfully, with the help of the NHS, he received treatment and recovered. It wasn’t a wholly smooth ride though. […]
Our thoughts on why charities should get better at planning their content gathering.
Today is International Women’s Day and this year the theme is #BalanceforBetter. The campaign asks us all to think about how we help forge a more gender-balanced world, celebrate women’s achievement and raise awareness against bias. We meet hundreds of inspiring women every year, from Birmingham to Bangladesh and in the past we have written […]
What a start to 2019! We’ve been to the four corners of the British Isles on shoots and smartphone filmmaking courses for a variety of organisations. One of our recent smartphone filmmaking courses was a bespoke course for the British Red Cross. We were impressed at the quality of the films produced, and so, we […]
Scrolling through Twitter recently I saw a photo of a young woman who had just won the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize and realised I recognised her. I recognised Rebeca Gyumi because I had taken her photo whilst working with VSO in Tanzania ten years ago. At the time she was running a youth […]
On UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities we want to talk about the responsibility photographers have to ensure their work doesn’t perpetuate inequality. “That’s his proper happy face – we don’t see that very often.” These were the words of Martin’s sister when she saw the photos that Mile 91 captured of her brother […]
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