Tonight, Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman have won the Best Documentary Oscar for Born Into Brothels.
To help the children you see in the film visit the Kids With Cameras website.
I have yet to see the film, but I have heard only great things about it. Anyone want to pipe in with a comment about it?
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Sarah Bachman says
Hi Seshu
Born Into Brothels is a terrific documentary. It tells of Zana Briski’s discovery that the children of sex workers in Kolkata see a window into another world through their cameras….but also confronts the reality that getting through to that other world, to a new and different life, is really, really hard.
Beyond the documentary, Zana has used her experience in two ways: to raise money for the children themselves, and to spread the idea that photography can help children who live extraordinarily difficult lives see their world at a new angle, and for some, grasp a different life.
But as with all well-told stories, Born Into Brothels leaves out a lot.
It leaves out, for instance, the work of many other photographers who have introduced young people who have few worldy prospects to a new life by introducing them to photography.
Shahidul Alam and his colleages have worked for eight years with a group of young photographers who call themselves Out of Focus. (www.drik.net).
Nancy McGirr teaches photography to children who worked in a garbage dump in Guatemala. (www.fotokids.org. Here’s a story about her http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s910493.htm)
And Zana Briski is doing her best to make her work in Kolkata more than a one-time event. She started Kids With Cameras (www.kids-with-cameras.org)
to send other photographers to countries around the world to train children to become photographers. Gigi Cohen (whoalso has worked with Child Labor & the Global Village) is currently in Haiti.
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I hope that all these efforts can be sustained, and can help at least some children become professional photographers I look forward to seeing the amazing images that emerge from among the child photographers of what Shahidul Alam calls the Majority World.
Sarah
Sarah Bachman says
Hi Seshu
Born Into Brothels is a terrific documentary. It tells of Zana Briski’s discovery that the children of sex workers in Kolkata see a window into another world through their cameras….but also confronts the reality that getting through to that other world, to a new and different life, is really, really hard.
Beyond the documentary, Zana has used her experience in two ways: to raise money for the children themselves, and to spread the idea that photography can help children who live extraordinarily difficult lives see their world at a new angle, and for some, grasp a different life.
But as with all well-told stories, Born Into Brothels leaves out a lot.
It leaves out, for instance, the work of many other photographers who have introduced young people who have few worldy prospects to a new life by introducing them to photography.
Shahidul Alam and his colleages have worked for eight years with a group of young photographers who call themselves Out of Focus. (www.drik.net).
Nancy McGirr teaches photography to children who worked in a garbage dump in Guatemala. (www.fotokids.org. Here’s a story about her http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s910493.htm)
And Zana Briski is doing her best to make her work in Kolkata more than a one-time event. She started Kids With Cameras (www.kids-with-cameras.org)
to send other photographers to countries around the world to train children to become photographers. Gigi Cohen (whoalso has worked with Child Labor & the Global Village) is currently in Haiti.
.
I hope that all these efforts can be sustained, and can help at least some children become professional photographers I look forward to seeing the amazing images that emerge from among the child photographers of what Shahidul Alam calls the Majority World.
Sarah
ro mo blog says
Movie: Born Into Brothels
I saw a moving flick last night, entitled Born Into Brothels. It was about the children of sex workers in Calcutta’s red light district. I cried.
You have got to see this. I’m simply too tired right now to post anything concrete.
More info via IM…
ro mo blog says
Movie: Born Into Brothels
I saw a moving flick last night, entitled Born Into Brothels. It was about the children of sex workers in Calcutta’s red light district. I cried.
You have got to see this. I’m simply too tired right now to post anything concrete.
More info via IM…
BRIJ says
I am looking for a assistant to help me out when I begin a 5 week documentary porject in Kolkata from July 14th. Can anyone help me find one? Or tell me where I would be able to advertise for an assistant in Kolkata?
cheers!
BRIJ says
I am looking for a assistant to help me out when I begin a 5 week documentary porject in Kolkata from July 14th. Can anyone help me find one? Or tell me where I would be able to advertise for an assistant in Kolkata?
cheers!
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