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Christianity & Poverty :: Part 1
This is a selection of images taken over a period of a year during which I have photographed Christianity in some of its various different church forms as they exist in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. My first thoughts on the matter was that Christianity in Kibera had some kind of manipulative function with those ‘in the know’ making money off those outside that circle, as exists in probably most other forms of religion. But as I spent more time photographing I found that the rituals and past-times of church-going Kibera people create the very backbone of their existence, and quite possibly without which they would struggle to find any bearable reason for existence.
This is an on-going personal photographic project which I will continue to expand and look into other areas of Kenya and other areas of religion, and further still other religions globally. My final vision is publications of a book and exhibitions.
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WINNER :: Forum 2012 Photo Competition
Vestergaard Frandsen sent some of the images I took of their Lifestraw product to Forum 2012 held recently in Cape Town. This is a conference that promotes research and innovation for health, equity and development, and as I found out it comes with a photo contest. Seems one of those photos Vestergaard sent in is what they were looking for and I find myself the winner of the Forum 2012 Photo Competition and a small chunk of prize money to show for it (thank you so much).
Here’s the winning photo…. and below a screen shot of the page of winning images to give you context.
Forum 2012 is the 14th global meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research and is a service of the COHRED Group, which resulted from the merger of COHRED and the Global Forum for Health Research.
Forum 2012 is the first global forum to bring together the key actors who make research and innovation work for health, equity and development. Governments, industry, social enterprises, non-governmental organisations, researchers, media, financiers–donors–sponsors, international organisations, and others who believe that this is the way to move ‘beyond aid’.
Nice to have been a part of it. To more! THANK YOU.
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Carbon For Water :: Days 3 & 4
Selection of images from Days 3 and 4… To be added to later but just want to get something up today.
A moment at Emusanda Health Centre:
Yvonne met with a group of HIV positive men and women who discovered their status during Vestergaard Frandsen’s Integrated Prevention Demonstration Campaign in Kakamega where 40,000 people were tested for HIV. Its about ‘YOU’ making the change!
Yvonne visits the home of Phanice (26) to see how she has continued to use the LifeStraw. She says that there are no conditions of diarrhoea in her household since getting the filter a year ago. Yvonne also inspects Phanice’s use of Vestergaard’s Permanet mosquito net which is correctly hung and maintained.
Yvonne is interviewed by producer David Lindsay and cameraman Justin Purefoy:
Carbon For Water :: Day 2
Morning:
Photographing school children using LifeStraw® Family in the classroom….
Afternoon:
Photographing the visit of the Princess of Africa, Yvonne Chaka Chaka to the Emusanda Health Clinic that Vestergaard Frandsen have coordinated to build. This trip to see about extending the maternity unit.
And:
Yvonne visits the aunt and remaining family members of Sharon, a 15 year girl with HIV who passed away September 2011.
All images (c)Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
Carbon for Water :: Day 1
The LifeStraw®‘s Carbon For Water™ program is the most ambitious previous public health campaign Vestergaard Frandsen has ever envisioned and the largest registered carbon offsets project that the world has seen. The impact of the distribution of over 900,000 LifeStraw® Family filters had a wonderfully huge impact on the lives of over 4 million Kenyans in Western Province during and after the program rolled out in April and May 2011.
Vestergaard Frandsen return this month to carry out their follow up one year later, to collect further data and re-educate the users in order to maintain 100% success rates.
Day 1
Here is a selection of my images taken from DAY 1 in the field. They show educators and ‘bodaboda’ (motorbike) drivers heading out to households, women at the Banju Health Centre in Vihiga, inside the house of Phanice (26) with her children Ester (6), Arnold (4) and Precious (9 months) showing their installed LifeStraw® Family. And children collecting water, now able to do so from their nearest water source because of the LifeStraw® Family filter instead of having to travel much further for cleaner water.
All images (c) Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
All images (c) Georgina Goodwin/Vestergaard Frandsen
Celebrities
These are a few of my favourite celebrity images taken over the years…. Just to keep you interested!
Mandela at a ceremony celebrating the completion of the tertiary planning stage of The Nelson Mandela Children`s Hospital in Johannesburg funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, where the legend`s 90th birthday was also remembered. South Africa, July 2009
- Nelson Mandela
Nelson K`Naan – Somali-born hiphop artist singing live the remix version of his song “Waving Flag”, chosen as the Coca-Cola anthem for the official FIFA World Cup 2010. K`Naan toured with the World Cup Trophy and performed here in Cape Town at the celebration party of the arrival of the World Cup Trophy on South African soil. December 2009
- K’Naan
Sarah Obama, grandmother to American President Barrack Obama and Goodwill Ambassador for Grandmothers Against Malaria Initiative (GAMI), seen here distributing PermaNet mosquito nets with Ida Odinga, wife of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga - in the Obama`s home area of K`Ogelo, Western Kenya. January 2010
- Sarah Obama & Ida Odinga
Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African singer and Goodwill Ambassador for Roll Back Malaria, during World Malaria Day in Livingstone, Zambia. May 2008
- Yvonne ChakaChaka
Mission on malaria awareness to Goma by the UNICEF Japan Committee and Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata (centre), here with Asuka Imai, Field Officer for UNHCR (centre right in blue) and members from UNICEF Japan Committee during a trip to Kibati 1 Camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) run by UNHCR in DRC. 13 May 2009
- Hidetoshi Nakata
Musa Otieno – one of Kenya`s most successful and decorated footballers. June 2009. With supposedly over 100 appearances for the Kenyan national team, Otieno also owns and operates a community outreach foundation in Kenya called the Musa Otieno Foundation which seeks to become a centre of excellence in youth football in Africa by not only nurturing talent but also producing disciplined and patriotic footballers that will put Kenya on the world map of football. This is one image from a series taken for billboard advertising to promote the work of US company `Alive N` Kickin` which strives to help children exercise their right to play, to create employment for communities in Africa and to help raise awareness of preventable disease, achieved through the African manufacture and distribution of sports balls and the provision of appropriate health awareness materials for young people. June 2009
- Musa Otieno
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Portraits from a Colonial Past part II
Part II
Herewith the second selection of staff portraits…..
Portraits from a Colonial Past part I
Part I
I’m unable to name the establishment where I took these portraits of their longstanding staff members of over 25 years service due to their law and request but I hope you will agree that the images speak for themselves without any need for embellishment or detail in writing.
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Birthdays
Summer in suburbia, life just outside Nairobi, ‘up the hill’ in Limuru. Housewives and children’s birthday parties amidst valleys of tea. Fresh air and breathtaking vistas, except in winter when the day is cloaked in mist. A dream childhood.
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