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Spotlight/December 28, 2009 Greetings! As we send out our last Spotlight of 2009, we would like to wish you a very happy new year and thank the community of photographers who have submitted work and the viewers who have visited the hundreds of online exhibits created this past year on SocialDocumentary.net.
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Middletown
Photographs by Baldomero Fernandez
Liquor and Lotto. Photo by Baldomero Fernandez.
"This work is a mix of melancholy and desperate hope. The work aims to capture an abstraction in close proximity to a reality. I portray the situations and objects that I encounter in my travels through middle America honestly and the viewer is left to endow them with a much deeper meaning. Middletown is an exploration into the cracks on the surface of the American dream."
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Palestinian Fairtrade Olive Oil
Photographs by Saeed Taji Farouky
Mahdi Ibrahim rides home after a day harvesting organic olives on his family's farm in the West Bank cooperative of Kufr Rai. Photo by Saeed Taji Farouky.
In February 2008, the Fairtrade Foundation launched the world's first Fairtrade certified olive oil from Palestine. The product does more than just supply the discerning international market with high-quality, organic olive oil and promise a fair deal for the producers. It is working to help Palestinian farmers get around the separation wall, checkpoints and severe restrictions on trade and movement placed on them by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
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Innocent on the Streets of Damascus
Photographs by Carole al-Farah
Sabah, nine years old, standing on Al Thawra Bridge, holding coconut sweets for sale. Damascus, Syria 2009. Photo by Carole al-Farah.
In the last four years, child labor has increased on the streets of Damascus for children from 6 to 12 years old. Many of the children sell sweets on Damascus's bridges and sidewalks. This essay is about Sabah and Nader, sister and brother.
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