Studio - Multimedia Presentations

Tribal Groups Harness Globalization

Photo essay about how the Mirror Arts Group helps hill tribes in Northern Thailand tap the power of modern computer communications and broadcast technologies while retaining their traditional culture and strengthening community.

Photos by Naveen Kishore

Fighting Child Prostitution: A Red Light for Traffickers

Photo essay about the efforts of Sompop Jantraka to save hundreds of girls who live near the Thailand-Burmese border from being sold into Thailand's brothels. He intervenes to prevent young girls from being persuaded or pressured into becoming prostitutes and helps them gain the education and skills they need to lead a healthy life.

Photos by Naveen Kishore

Nepali Women Rising

Through the Woman's Awareness Center Nepal, women in Nepal are leading a movement to boost the standard of living among the poor, and to build a just and equal society in this relatively impoverished, isolated nation. They are helping their communities engage in more sustainable, productive activities and claiming their inherent power as citizens.

Photos by Sujoy Das

Giving Youth a Constructive Role: Nurturing Nature, Not Violence

Photo essay about Assam, the most violence-stricken state in north east India and a fertile ground for insurgent organizations to recruit youths into terrorist and criminal activities. Soumyadeep Datta's Nature's Beckon organization is offering a constructive alternative to Assam's frustrated and demoralized youths by making them custodians of the region's rich but endangered environment.

Photos by Sujoy Das

Rising From the Ash Heap: Waste Collectors Assert their Humanity

Photographic essay about how waste collectors and scavengers – untouchables at the bottom of India's vast heap of unorganized labor – are fighting to gain recognition as legitimate and productive citizens who provide an important service to Indian cities.

Photos by Naveen Kishore

Sanctuary to Save the Forests at the Bottom of the World

Photo essay from Patagonia conveys a bold vision: creating an international sanctuary that encircles the bottom of the planet, south of the 40th parallel, to save the earth's southern-most forests in Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and Australia. These endangered native sub-antarctic forests are the oldest and most unique temperate rainforests in the Southern Hemisphere.

Photos by Lucas Chiappe   en español

Justice for All: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Photographic essay about the revival and reform of the traditional shalish form of conflict mediation in Bangladesh, and the training of "barefoot" lawyers.

Photos by Shehzad Noorani/Developing Images

Factory-Based Daycare

Photographic essay about how garment factory owners in Bangladesh have been persuaded to provide low-cost childcare centers in their factories, providing care to children who would otherwise be left to fend for themselves on slum streets.

Photos by Shehzad Noorani/Developing Images

Waste Management: Finding the Treasure in Trash

Photographic essay about how a decentralized network of community-based composting plants in Bangladesh is generating revenue and employment, creating environmentally friendly bio-fertilizer, and making communities cleaner and healthier.

Photos by Shehzad Noorani/Developing Images and Alasdair Macdonald

Transforming Health Care for Young Cancer Patients

Photographic essay, with audio files, about the Children?s Cancer Relief Foundation, which helps children grow into their lives and resist the isolation that cancer imposes in many countries.

By Janet Jarman

Working Children Get Organized: Bidding for Power and Respect

Photographic essay, with audio files, about an independent union of working children that was organized for and by working children in southwestern India

By Janet Jarman

Reviving Traditions of Democratic Water Management

Photographic essay, with audio files, about innovative water conservation and natural resource management systems in drought-prone districts of Rajasthan state in western India

By Janet Jarman

Rescuing the Sierra Gorda, While Promoting Community and
    Human Development

Photographic essay, with audio files, about an model effort to save Mexico's most eco-diverse environment and raise the living standards of the inhabitants

Revitalizing South Africa's "Forgotten" Grassland

Photographic essay, with audio files, about an effort to simultaneously build racial tolerance and save South Africa's last remaining upland grassland

By Janet Jarman

Establishing Sustainable Rural Economies: Developing from
    Natural Origins

Photographic essay, with audio files, about a community development project that blends African traditions, permaculture, the ecovillage, and modern technology

By Janet Jarman

Creating a Whole Community

Photographic essay, with audio files, about an innovative "whole settlement" in Indonesia

By Kris Herbst

Making Life a Two-Way Street

Photographic essay, with audio files, about an innovative solution to the problem of street children in South Africa

By Janet Jarman

El Embudo – "The Funnel"

Photographs, with poems, by youthful inmates of Paraguayan prisons

Photographs by Jorge Sáenz

Stretching and Growing

Dora Andrade's School of Dance and Social Integration

Photos and Sound by Janet Jarman

Deep Forest

Rosa María Ruiz and Madidi National Park

Renascer (Rebirth)

Vera Cordeiro brings hope for new life to the favelas of Brazil

Photos and Sound by Janet Jarman

   Journal Sidebar:

Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions

A Personal Account

By Janet Jarman

Magdaleno Rose Avila and Homies Unidos

Interview with the founder of a daring initiative to combat gang violence in El Salvador

By Kris Herbst