LSE photography project - £2,000 assignment offered

The London School of Economics is commissioning photographers to shoot a story on issues around poverty and its representation, past and present. The photographers selected will be paid £2,000 for their work, which will be exhibited at the LSE next year. Applications are invited from photographers who are either from or living in the following cities:

London, Kinshasa, Mumbai, Istanbul, New York, Jakarta, Cairo and Shanghai.

Selection will be based on the best ideas/approaches submitted for any four of the eight cities highlighted above. The deadline for submission of ideas is 16 June 2008. Successful entrants will be contacted by 4 July. The deadline for final submission of all assignments is 29 August 2008.

Full details are at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/viewingrestricted.htm

If you have any questions, please contact Fiona Holland, Managing Editor, Global Civil Society Yearbook at f.c.holland@lse.ac.uk

by David Arnott at Tue May 27 16:58:23 UTC 2008 (ed. May 28 2008) London, United Kingdom | Bookmark this | Digg this |

16 Jun 2008 00:06

Thanks for posting.

by John Perkins | 28 May 2008 11:05 | Cairo, Egypt |

How come we of the never-never get a mention in these kinds of things?

Does the rest of the world really think we are shangri-la?

Well maybe for the rich ‘eh!

by lisa hogben | 28 May 2008 12:05 | sydney, Australia |

Lisa,

I noted that Tokyo is missing from the list, so either they know much more about poverty and we are ignorant or somehow they are biased because of an existing body of information. Of the eight cities listed, I`ve been only to New York. I have an impression that those eight cities have residents whose wealth must be in the top category in the world.

Is wealth more equitably distributed in Australia?

by Tomoko Yamamoto | 28 May 2008 13:05 | Baltimore, MD, United States |