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The silent drama of photography
#RevSoc Visualizing propaganda and agitation
Leon Trotsky, “Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema” 12 July, 1923: The most important weapon in this respect, a weapon excelling any other, is at present the cinema. This amazing spectacular innovation has cut into human life with a successful rapidity never experienced in the past. In the daily life of capitalist towns, the cinema
Read on »#CounterMaspero: Videojournalists collectives
We need Mosireen not just in every province, but in every street. Dissent must be visualized and abuses exposed graphically on the widest scale possible.
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Every video you upload, every picture you take and share, helps pushing public dissent forward.
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Visualization and the Domino Effect
Asa’d Abu Khalil is right… The symbolism of the images are enormous: the images are being shared on Arabic twitter and Facebook with great jubilation. The impact of those images on the regional level will be massive. Keep spreading the pix and vids. Keep on visualizing dissent. Tell the Arab world it’s possible. It’s possible
Read on »A camera, sometimes, is no less important than a Kalashnikov in a revolution
The people we photograph are not “objects,” but “subjects” and agents of change. A Key factor contributing to the revolution’s domino effect is visualizing dissent. We need to spread images and videos of the revolt to inspire others into action. A camera, sometimes, is no less important than a Kalashnikov in a revolution.
Read on »2008 – Egyptian Revolution Soundtrack
This is a music track I put together in 2008 following the April Mahalla uprising, where I mixed Yann Tiersen’s “Summer ’78” piano piece with anti-Mubarak chants I had recorded previously during Kefaya protests. Finally, the talented photographer/multimedia journalist and friend James Buck added the music track to a slide show of photos, taken by
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Protesters staging a sit-in since Friday, in Alexandria’s Saad Zaghloul square, have taken of the electronic billboard, and are using it to disseminate revolutionary propaganda and calls for protests. Ironically, that commercial billboard is manufactured by Sakr, one of the army’s factories. Nice job shabab…
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