Being productive is being independent – fighting hunger
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Photographer
ANDRE FRANCOIS
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Date of Photograph
2012
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Technical Info
Canon 5D Mark III
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Socials
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Website
The images are part of a worldwide documentary started in 2008 called Life Project. The main project’s goal is to find and document positive initiatives related to access to health and quality of life around the world.
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Biography
André François, founder of ImageMagica NGO, has been making photographic documentaries for 30 years.
Since 2005 he has been photographing subjects related to health. André has visited more than 100 hospitals and health centers all around Brazil, each with its own reality, to register special actions of great caregivers as well as people searching for access to health.
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Awards
• Partnership with World Health Organization (WHO) and photographs donated to WHO’s image bank and publications.
• Honorable mention for two selected series at IPA 2014 (International Photography Awards), The chosen series are part of André’s worldwide photo-documentary, Ubuntu.
• André was one of the six photographers selected by Syngenta Photography Award in 2013. The chosen images were taken in Africa and are part of André’s worldwide photo-documentary, Ubuntu. The Syngenta Photo Award had more than 8,000 inscriptions from all over the world.
• Honorable mention for selected photograph at the Safe Motherhood Initiative Photography Contest, by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in 2011.
• In 2010, the work done in Haiti, during humanitarian mission for the victims of the earthquake, was recognized for the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB, in Portuguese initials) and the Associação Paulista de Medicina.
• The book Choosing and living was one of the finalists in the category Published Photo Essay on Conrado Wessel Foundation Award in 2009.
• Photos selected to be part of Pirelli-Masp Photography Collection, one of the largest photographic collections in Brazil, in 2009.
• The book The curve and the path won the 1st place in the category Published Photo Essay on Conrado Wessel Foundation Award in 2008, one of the most important artistic prizes in Brazil.
• Awarded 1st place for best project by PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and IUHPE (International Union for Health Promotion and Education) at III Latin America Conference for Health Promotion and Education in 2003.
• Projects recognized by Unesco, Petrobrás and Banco do Brasil Foundation.
• ImageMagica is certified by the Ministry of Justice of Brazil.
Story In Nairobi, as in many big cities, food security is a major issue. To help improve this situation in Nairobi’s slums, Solidarites International organization started a project that teaches families how to produce their own food at home. They grow vegetables in a gardening sack, using a technique called vertical agriculture, which improves the productivity in a small space. This kind of agriculture needs very little water, another issue at the slums, only a small amount of land and cheap materials.
