This is not really a story idea from India, but a sharing of some excellent work being done by Brian Storm & his organization Mediastorm, in turning photo-journalists into audio-visual storytellers.
Haunting!
Some of you may have seen these already, but we would like to request the others to watch when they have the time.
And,by the way, there are lots of stories like these in India!
(Click on the pictures to view)
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Kingsley is a 23-year-old lifeguard from the West African coastal town of Limbe, Cameroon. Though he longed to be a professional footballer, French soldiers trained him to become a lifeguard, and Kingsley soon found himself working at an upscale hotel giving swimming lessons to visiting Europeans. He earned just 50 euros a month, enough to pay for food and the rented two-room house he shared with his parents and seven siblings.
“Most families in my country want their children to go to Europe,” Kingsley says. It is in Europe – the new El Dorado – that African immigrants can vastly increase their incomes while also providing for their families back home. So, in May of 2004, Kingsley left Cameroon on what he calls “his mission.” What followed was an excruciating six-month journey across half of Africa.
Kingsley’s Crossing is the story of one man’s willingness to abandon everything – his family, his country, and his friends – in the hopes of finding a better life abroad.
Award-winning French photojournalist Olivier Jobard documents the passage.
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In 2004, anywhere from 20 to 30 young addicts lived on the ninth floor of an elegant narrow building overlooking Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The squatters had turned the sprawling apartment into a dark, desperate and chaotic place.
People hustled, scored, shot and smoked wherever they could. Friends conned each other for their next hit. They slept on piles of clothes on the floor. The power was shut off; the bathroom unusable; the kitchen filled with garbage. Anything of value was sold off.
For nearly three years, Jessica Dimmock followed this crew documenting what happened to them after eviction, how they fought to get clean, sank deeper into addiction, went to jail, started families and struggled to survive.
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