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Tonight the Lucy Parsons Center brings The Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project to the South End of Boston. Showing through March 2, the Project is a product of nearly ten years of work by Boston-based activist and artist Scott Langley — exploring capital punishment through the photographer’s lens.

Birthed from a college art project to creatively address a human rights issue, and started with a few photos from an execution vigil in Huntsville, Texas, the original project has since grown into an internationally shown exhibit - making it the largest, most varied known collection of photos about the death penalty in the United States’ modern era.

This work-in-progress highlights Scott Langley’s efforts as a photojournalist and a human rights activist - bringing together the unique combination of art, journalism and education into one powerful project. The exhibit has been exhibited by Amnesty International in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, throughout Texas, North Carolina and North Dakota, as well as in the UK, Germany, Denmark, and in both print and video media across the world.

Also, this Friday, from 6:30-8:30PM, there will be an artist’s reception.  The public is invited to come meet the artist; snacks and drinks provided. Other goodies welcome to share.

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This photo comes from an awareness raising event called Displace Me, which concerned the displacement camps of northern Uganda.  The event was part of the nation-wide direct actions sponsored by Invisible Children on April 28, 2007.  I stumbled across this while looking for Creative Commons licensed photos for the Friends of Africa International website re-design.  Enjoy!

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Collective Lens is a website promoting social change through photography. The goal is to inspire users to:

• Upload a photo that promotes a charitable cause or brings awareness to a humanitarian need.
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• Read the latest articles about charities, humanitarian causes, and photography.

The site also serves as a social network for nonprofits seeking to raise awareness about their cause, and have a great series of articles on how to begin.

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Follow us on the AFSC and GPJC sponsored “State of Hope Tour” as we make our way across Georgia. Our goal is to illustrate the human cost of war. We are carrying with us boots representative of every Georgia soldier killed in Iraq as well as shoes that represent the Iraqi Civilian losses. I am playing a set at each show. So far the tour has been an amazing and enriching experience. We are reaching out to communities in Georgia to help them feel less isolated about their views regarding the Iraq War. For updated blog entries check out stateofhope.blogspot.com. The wonderful photography is done by one of our tour member, Sara Hopkins.

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Photojournalist Michael Kienitz has focused on capturing the lives of children wrapped up in violent conflict. Whether as child soldiers, as victims, or bereft orphans, Kienitz depicts them in honest, jarring ways, in the hopes that people will “feel compelled to change the world.”

His book, Small Arms: Children of Conflict received the following review from John Echave, the Senior Editor of National Geographic Magazine:

The reality of his photographs awakens in us the passion to help those whose lives are so disproportionately different from ours. We are struck by the fragility and yet resilience of children unexpectedly cornered by armed conflicts all over the world.

The book is available for $30 on his website.

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