podcast: Picture Balata

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Photography as entry into a deeper understanding of identity, history, and struggle. Photography as expression, but also as a practice of self actualization. We talk with Matthew Cassel, founder of the project, Picture Balata, about educating the least among us, and the role that images play in a vanishing culture struggling to remain. Picture Balata teaches Palestinian youth of a refugee camp how to express in images, the Palestinian experience.

This is not a political blog, but all messages expressed in images share certain things in common. Clearly, photography as part of a political struggle is a long tradition. All comments and suggestions are welcome.

Images & Links:
Picture Balata
Matthew Cassel
Eugene Richards
Balata Refugee Camp

Music: intro - Andrew Bird ; outro - New Young Pony Club

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