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Featured Exhibit /September 21, 2009 Female Prisons: Mothers in Despair
by Luiz Santos
A mother waits to meet her son at a prison gate. Brazil. Photograph by Luiz Santos.
Lei do Ventre Livre - The Free Womb Bill - was the first
bill in Brazil linked with the elimination of slavery.
Children born after 1871 would be free. More than 100 years later children face living in prison with their convicted
mothers, most of them black. These children, who did not commit any crime, are
exposed to violence, drug use and poor hygiene. In the State of Bahia, a crèche,
administered by a Catholic nun, near the Complexo Penitenciário Feminino, gives
support to the families and houses and feeds a number of children and teenagers. But some prisoners have raised accusations of official
kidnapping as the children are sometimes prevented from seeing their relatives or
risk being given to other families for adoption. The children are also
converted to Catholicism.
This project is about women and aims to be an insight in the lives of
mothers, children, and grandmothers inside and outside prison walls.
"This project is not only about the incompetence of the State in care for
its citizens. It's also about the responsibilities men should take toward their
families and, consequently, communities."
Luiz
Santos
Click here to view exhibit.
SDN Announces Call for Entries on Global Recession
Center for Economic and Social Rights Becomes NGO Partner
 SDN announced last week a call for entries on the theme "Crisis &
Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession." We are looking for photo essays
that provide insight into how ordinary citizens around the world are coping
during these new "hard times" and how individuals, companies, industries,
family businesses, communities, and governments are responding to the crisis.
We encourage a broad definition of the global recession. (Please add the above graphic to your Facebook page!)
Competition winners will have an exhibition of their work at powerhouse
Arena in New York, February 15- March 14,
and be published in an exhibition catalog, in addition to other
prizes. Deadline for entries is
December 1, 2009.
Click here for complete details on the Call for Entries,
Center for Economic and Social Rights
 Our NGO Partner for the Call for Entries and exhibition is the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR). The CESR works to promote social justice
through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire
communities of dignity, justice and sometimes life, the CESR seek to uphold the
universal human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water,
housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights essential to
human dignity. See www.cesr.org.
Call for Entries and Exhibition Sponsors
(Click here to find out about being a sponsor)
  
OSI Documentary Project
Moving Walls 16 Opening Reception
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
September 29, 2009
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
 The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project is hosting an opening reception for Moving Walls 16, featuring the following six bodies of work:
Stefano De Luigi: Liberia's Child Soldiers: Recovering Innocence
Benjamin Lowy: Iraq | Perspectives
Eugene Richards: War Is Personal
Tomas van Houtryve: Nepal: A "People's War" Topples the God King
Paolo Woods: Chinafrica
Zalmaï: Promises and Lies: The Human Cost of the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Since its inception in 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 100 photographers whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI's mission.
The exhibition will be on view through May 21, 2010.
Photo: Benjamin Lowy, from Iraq | Perspectives II
About SocialDocumentary.net
SocialDocumentary.net is a new website for photographers, NGOs, journalists, editors, and students to create and explore documentary websites investigating critical issues facing the world today. Recent exhibits have explored oil workers in the Niger River Delta, male sex workers in India, Central American immigrant women during their journey north, and Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Greece. Click here to view all of the exhibits. |
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