James Nachtwey for TED
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- BaskerviIle
This weekend world renonwned photojournalist James Nachtwey (Time magazine), broke a global photo story that he's been shooting for a year. It's about a new evolved form of Tuberculosis that's untreatable called XDR-TB (extremely drug resistant TB).
The project was a result of him winning the TED prize last year, he was given a grant of $100,000 to create awareness of an issue of his choice, he chose this.
Have a look at his amazing photos here:
http://www.xdrtb.org/photographs…Also, I've been part of the team organising the London launch of the project. We spent the weekend evenings projecting the photos onto the National Theatre. We built this site to track coverage on blogs etc, it also allows you to leave comments on top of all the links:
The London group for the project is called The Emergency Room, we'll have a place just off Brick Lane (Bacon Street) from Tuesday where you can drop in a find out more about James Nachtwey's Ted Wish, and take photos, do projects etc.
If you want to get involved right now, you can take a photo of your BCG scar (TB vaccine) and post it up to out flickr page:
http://flickr.com/photos/theemer…It's been great getting involved with a project for TED as a designer, spending all my spare time after my day job working on this project and learning loads about the disease, pretty scary really. So pass this around as much as possible (blog about the photos if you can). The photos were in the Observer magazine yesterday and will be in TIME magazine very soon.
thanks.
- lowimpakt0
great project.
- BaskerviIle0
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- janne760
strong. :'(
- janne760
And well done, Baskerville. It must also give greater meaning to your work.
*tips hat
- BaskerviIle0
thanks janne. The images are really powerful, it's great just to have helped out with the project in some small way.
Everyone should see these photos
- bolus0
excellent, very strong work and a story worth telling
- tkmeister0
I love his photography. Simply amazing. I watched War Photographer and was deeply touched by it.
- sikma0
one of the greatest photo journalist ever. simply no end to the scope of his vision.
- OSFA0
He is incredibly amazing! I am a true fan of his work!
Great for you Baskerville, I bet it was an awesome experience.