January 2012
8 posts
Soccer Stripped to its Core
I am the director of a documentary film called Pelada, a journey to 25 countries around the world in search of pick-up soccer on side alleys, concrete courts, jungles, rooftops, prisons, and any other crazy location. The word Pelada literally means “naked” in Portuguese - it’s the term used in Brazil for pick-up games, the version of the game stripped of all rules. It took...
How Photographers Actually Spend Their Time
Great post from APhotoEditor:
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”If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.” - Eve Arnold via Daylight Magazine
Results from our 1st Quarter Online
Notable.ca + Nuru
BIG thanks to Notable.ca for their write-up about us! http://bit.ly/notablenuru
Risen Wonders
I just spent a few minutes looking at the photographs in the Nuru Project cache. Such speedy browsing, the blessing and the burden of the Internet. Bursts of color and place and moments. Flashes. Half-seconds of meaning.
It’s a simple exercise, one I encourage you to take right now, if you are reading this. Take two minutes. Click SHOP at the top of this page. When all the images load,...
MLK on Love & Power
”Power without love is reckless and abusive. Love without power is sentimental and anemic.” - MLK Jr
John Oliver on Fair Trade
“What is Fair Trade when you boil it down other than basic human politeness? It seems sad that we are rewarding fundamental decency with its own label.”
