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Salgado & The Salt of the Earth – a review

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. I am sentencing myself to peace. —...

Reggie Yates’ Extreme Russia Series

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 million...

Syria: Outrage Is Not Enough

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...

Pictures of Ferguson in Clayton MO: Before the Verdict

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 not...

The Green Prince (A Review): Nothing Obvious Here Too!

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 treason...

The Ebola Emergency: A Scream-Un Cri/Grito/Grido!

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. Médecins...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus