Posts under ‘photojournalism’

Pictures from ‘enjolife‘ - a tranquil farm near South Africa’s wild West Coast, a few hours north of Cape Town.

Article in the Financial Times By Nicholas Garrett and Harrison Mitchell
Published: March 5 2008 03:09
Some of the world’s best known consumer electronics companies are examining their supply chains after discovering that tin from a mine controlled by renegade soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo is reaching international markets.
The Bisie mine, situated a day’s [...]

These photos were taken at the Crometal steel factory cooperative in Buenos Aires at the beginning of 2007. During Argentina’s financial crisis in 2002 hundreds of factories closed down and laid off their workers who had little hope of getting employment elsewhere. So began the phenomenon of ‘recovered factories’ - where the workers battled authorities [...]

Well its been a few weeks, but these are the worst kind of blog posts, so I will spare you the details. Suffice to say, I was tired when I got back from Bolivia and got to know my sofa a little better. In the meantime, I developed photos, edited, chopped them up.
And here [...]

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I spent Halloween afternoon in Huanuni, Bolivia, where the government was to announce the nationalisation of the the country’s mines. Instead, they announced that they were going to postpone the nationalisation and give salaried jobs to all the 4000 private miners in Huanuni.
Naturally, this made everyone [...]