The organization Mosctha is a Haitian not-for-profit founded in 1958. Initially started to provide health care to sugarcane workers, it now covers all areas of charity work in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They operate two mobile healthcare units that provide free health care and counseling to those in need, as well as provide [...]
Category Archives: Politics
The Beautiful Struggle
January 16, 2011 – 3:43 pm
Last year for Black History month, The New Yorker published a contemporary portfolio of the last of the civil-rights era leaders photographed by Platon titled “The Promise.” In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday I have put up a few of the photos here. The full selection includes portraits of Malcolm X’s daughters, Muhammad Ali, [...]
A “Tourist’s” Take on the Koran
January 5, 2011 – 12:31 pm
Aside from news stories cherry picking passages from the Koran, my actual knowledge of the Islamic tomb was previously limited to a two-hour lecture from a cabbie driving me to Heathrow Airport. Regardless of your education level, this TED lecture by author Lesley Hazleton is an interesting, alternative and even humorous look at the literature [...]
Kim Jong-il Looking at Things
December 5, 2010 – 11:38 am
With political and military tensions growing between North and South Korea, it’s time to take a closer look at North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il – while he looks at things. These images (and more like them) can be seen on the strangely interesting website Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things.
Proud to Serve
November 28, 2010 – 2:43 am
Proud to Serve is a portrait project by photographer Jo Ann Santangelo, a recent graduate of ICP. She has spent the last two years traveling to 31 states and photographing men and women who served or were discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. According to Santangelo’s introduction to the project, there are [...]
The Future of Money
November 24, 2010 – 4:53 pm
With America still knee-deep in the recession, and a banking industry that has long lost all trustworthiness, more people are starting to think about alternative systems of monetary exchange and trying to develop new, mainly community based, structures and platforms for the exchange of goods and ideas in general. Dossier talked to director and media [...]
It Gets Better Project
September 23, 2010 – 4:11 pm
I have been reading Dan Savage’s advice column in the Village Voice, Savage Love, since I was a teenager. Aside from the general voyeuristic peek advice into other peoples’ lives that all advice columns offer, I’ve always liked reading his because of him. His voice is so human, and he comes off as really funny, [...]
Don’t Know Much About History?
September 20, 2010 – 9:09 pm
I’m pretty sure I remember hearing something along the lines of, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it,” and, frankly, I don’t think any of us could stomach reliving the ups and down of the past ten years. While at Harvard, a friend of ours, April Lee, came up with a solution: [...]
In Conversation with Alessandro Zuek Simonetti
September 12, 2010 – 10:30 pm
From NYC 08-10. All images by Alessandro Zuek Simonetti. I met Alessandro in Milan while he was preparing a photography exhibition. He’s a sort of Al Pacino-looking guy who grew up in Bassano del Grappa, a little Italian city near Venice, and moved to New York in his twenties, eventually finding his professional footing as [...]
