October 2011
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The Magic of Neighborhoods
Zackary Canepari’s print from Kathputli brings to mind a film-in-the-making about the neighborhood, Tomorrow We Disappear. Producers Jim Goldblum and Adam Weber:“Since the 1970s, Delhi’s magicians, puppeteers, and acrobats have called the tinsel slum, Kathputli Colony, home. Last year the government issued relocation permits to the colony residents; the slum is to be bulldozed, cleared for...
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What's In The Envelope?
So, when I order a print, what’s in the envelope anyway? Well, first of all, your print. We got this from Taylor after he opened his 8x10 Espen Rasmussen print.
And here are prints by Marco Trovato and Brandon Thibodeaux that we shipped to Kelly earlier this week.
What’s that card with the handwriting on it and why are that dude’s hands so hairy? Unfortunately, we...
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Nuru Project + Acumen Chapters raise $100K,...
When we first met Acumen Fund CEO Jacqueline Novogratz, she asked, “What’s your dream?”
Nuru Project was fresh off the first DIGNITY NYC, a highly successful fundraising photo auction that Nuru Project curated for New York for Acumen in July 2009. So we pitched Jacqueline on DIGNITY auctions traveling through other Acumen chapters as they opened around the world.
Eighteen months later, Nuru...
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Marco Trovato on stories other than War, Misery,...
Now that our print-selling site is up, we turn to sharing what we think makes the 35 prints that we chose for launch remarkable, starting with Marco Trovato’s print from Angola.
We first came across Marco’s print while curating images about soccer (yes, I’m American) for our World At Play event during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. As he writes in his handwritten...
