Using land grabbing as a case study, photographer Alfredo Bini and media executive Greg Moyer meet with non-profit organizations and researchers to discuss the potential for issue-based multimedia storytelling.
Presenters: Alfredo Bini Greg Moyer Iain Levine Paolo D’Odorico Saulo Araujo
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
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Presented by Blue Chalk Media & The University of Virginia, with the participation of Human Rights Watch, Grassroots International, Why Hunger.
A panel of leading experts in the field will address land grabbing as a complex international and environmental phenomenon.
Lately there have often been shortcomings in providing in depth coverage for stories like this because, due to space restrictions on the traditional media outlets, even more often the articles have focused only on specific aspects rather than the phenomenon as a whole. In spite of these limits, how can photography and multimedia be used as a tool for raising awareness?
Conveying in-depth information and analysis about controversial issues requires time and long-term research in an age when the public’s attention level is dwindling and increasingly focused on breaking news and sound bytes.
Using land grabbing as a case study, photographer Alfredo Bini and media executive Greg Moyer meet with non-profit organizations and researchers to discuss the potential for issue-based multimedia storytelling.
Alfredo Bini is a photojournalist and has found his own personal form of expression in reportage photography. His work has been on show in exhibitions and photography festivals worldwide. His reportages won national and international awards and are used as debating material for presentations and conferences in public venues, Universities and on TV news programs. He is represented by the Paris based Cosmos Photo agency.
Greg Moyer is an award-winning Senior Media Executive with extensive international experience who has operated in senior positions across the television and digital media industries and has worked with esteemed brands such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, VOOM HD, Fine Living Network and Food Network both domestically and internationally. Most recently he has founded a new visual communications company called Blue Chalk Media based in Brooklyn, NY.
Iain Levine is the Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In January 2012 HRW published a report that examines the first year of Gambella’s (Ethiopia) villagization program. It details the involuntary nature of the transfers, loss of livelihoods, deteriorating food situation, and ongoing abuses by the armed forces against the affected people. Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the government for commercial agricultural development.
Paolo D’Odorico is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, who has recently written and published papers on the effects of land grabbing on water and food security in areas targeted by large scale land acquisitions. His work focuses on eco-hydrology, soil erosion, water use for food production, and desertification, with field research in Southern Africa and North America.
Saulo Araujo is the Director of the Global Movements Program at WhyHunger. He works to promote initiatives for food sovereignty and agroecology by identifying resources and network opportunities that will strengthen the work of grassroots organizations and social movements. He works with urban and rural families in the US and abroad. He has served as the Latin America Program Coordinator for Grassroots International, and as consultant to international funders, such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.”
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