“We Can’t Always Rely on Someone Else to Save the World.”
“Sometimes Breathtaking. Sometimes Horrific. Each photo has the power to Inspire.”
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Today’s post draws from an article in the very green website, TreeHugger, the Greenpeace Design Awards, and a website about Photographs that Changed the World.
Images are so powerful!!!
Flag raising on Iwo Jima.
Images take people places and make people FEEL. Therefore, they have inspired movements, won wars, and in turn changed the course of the world.
TreeHugger just posted an article about the Greenpeace Design Awards. An attempt to motivate designers to create an image to inspire people to help our world.
Here is the winner (Click to see the whole thing):
"We can't always rely on someone else to change the world."
Greenpeace is also, promoting a new movie, The Age of Stupid, which just opened in New Zealand, here is the trailer:
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The Age of Stupid Trailer Feb 2009 – SD from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.
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I have tossed around the idea of becoming a war photographer. Not seriously, but I really respect the work.
Kenneth Jarecke, a photojournalist, has a great quote:
“If I don’t photograph this, people like my Mom will think war is what they see on TV.”
Create Our World.
Ben.
“We must look at it. We’re required to look at it. We’re required to do what we can about it. If we don’t, who will?” – James Nachtwey
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