by Pier Marton | May 16, 2015 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Highlights, Human Rights, Native, Now, Peace, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, Travel, Wars, Women, World
IN US CITIES The Film’s Website & INSTITUTO TERRA I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn’t kill that man on that photograph, I didn’t starve that child.” That’s why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers....
by Pier Marton | Apr 28, 2015 | Afri, Death, Doc, Now, Politics, Racism, Violence, Youth
Reggie Yates writes about his experience (below). A MUST-SEE BBC SERIES ABOUT TODAY’S RUSSIA I still highly recommend also the recent piece on Chechnya: La Tchétchénie Maintenant (Chechnya Now) Russia is the largest country on earth and home to nearly 150...
by Pier Marton | Nov 29, 2014 | Action, Doc, Genocide, Human Rights, Middle-East, Now, Photo, Politics, Racism, US, Wars, World
From the NYTimes Middle East Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action By MICHAEL R. GORDON OCT. 31, 2014 WASHINGTON — Wearing a blue hood to shield his identity, a former Syrian police photographer briefed a congressional committee over the summer on the photos he...
by Pier Marton | Nov 24, 2014 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Media, Racism, Spectacle, US, Video
Clayton MO was cleverly preserved but not Ferguson MO Copyright Pier Marton 2014 I had met briefly with Darryl Pinckney that same afternoon: HERE is what he wrote for the New York Review of Books. “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will...
by Pier Marton | Oct 17, 2014 | Antisemitism, Books, Doc, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Wars
At the Plaza Frontenac in St. Louis Starting today (Friday October 17, 2014) (11:00) 1:30 4:00 7:10 9:35 My review: Spies like James Bond/007 can appear cool… but what if it were their family, their relatives and their people they were betraying? That type of...
by Pier Marton | Oct 9, 2014 | Asia, Care, Death, Genocide, Health, Now, Politics, Racism, Security, Wars, Women, World
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date and the World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency as more than 4,000 people have been killed by the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year....