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Gerd Ludwig: The Long Shadow of Chernobyl

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At 1:23am on April 26th, 1986, operators in the control room of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant botched a routine safety test, resulting in an explosion, and a fire that burned for 10 days. The radioactive fallout spread over tens of thousands of square miles, driving more t...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]

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Gerd Ludwig
Appeal for Funds

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Although I have already met my intermediate Kickstarter goal, I have until March 21st to raise funds. The estimated cost for two weeks of shooting in the highly contaminated Exclusion Zone is $25,000 (a car and driver alone costs $600/day). However, in total, I plan to raise $50,000 ...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]

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Brenda Ann Kenneally
The Smith legacy

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Thanks to the $30,000 Smith Grant she received in 2000, Brenda’s was able to continue her journey on documenting what she started “Money Power Respect”. Here is the video presented at the Smith Fund Ceremony in 2010.

25.11.2010[ read full story ]

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Battlefields
by Yan Morvan

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He has an incurable curiosity. That is how Yan Morvan, a 56 year old photojournalist, describes himself. He talks to us about his battlefields. “How and why does a person photograph war?”. I’ve asked myself this question throughout my twenty years as a war correspondent. Is it the desi...

25.10.2010[ read full story ]

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