The path of the Moore tornado
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Tomohiro Takagi (b. 1972, Japan) - The Wood of Fallen Birds, 2011 Paintings: Oil on Canvas
http://www.art.zaq.jp/
How to Use Photography to Help Survivors of Natural Disasters
Operation Photo Rescue is a league of photographers and graphic designers who help survivors of natural disasters recover irreplaceable family photos.
When a town is hard hit by a natural disaster, OPR gets together and holds copy runs, sessions where people from the public can bring photos in to be salvaged. Kind of an amazing way to help survivors emotionally heal!
p.s. If you’re looking for other ways to help survivors of the tornado in Oklahoma, you can also donate to the Red Cross.
This body of work is an exploration of the extent of cultural appropriation and encourages a discussion about it. I give the appropriator and the appropriated the opportunity to defend themselves and create a dialogue between them, while maintaining a neutral stance myself. I am not attacking those who appropriate, merely educating and creating awareness. I’m also exploring appropriation myself, and discovering the carying degrees of it within this visual conversation.
I’d like to make this a long term exploration, with a lot more participants as a form of generation-wide debate. If you’d like to be photographed to add your point of view, please do not hesitate to pop me a message here or an email at sanaahamid@yahoo.com and we could work something out!
It is so hard for me to come up with a clear opinion on this topic.
So, I’ve seen this photoset making its way around tumblr, and I just wanted to correct the locations and image quality. Seriously, not all of these photos are from New Orleans and it was lazy of whoever created the post.
1) taken on a cross country trip by Kyle Telechan (no location confirmed)
2) Nara Dreamland (Japan)
3) I also think this is Nara Dreamland (Japan)
4) Six Flags (New Orleans)
5) Chippewa Lake Amusement Park (Ohio)
6) No location confirmed
7) Michigan State Fairgrounds, now Theatre Bizzare (Detroit)
8) No location confirmed (believed to be Chernobyl or Japan)
9) No location confirmed
10) Spreepark (Berlin)
