Sunday, December 19, 2010

Why Would Someone Smell Like Vinegar

for Christmas: A bit AFRICA read it?!

Among the 10 best pictures of 2010: the girl from Tanzania ! Morgentlichen get water / photo, thank you: © Christoph Gödan / agency Laif / Unicef Prize: These are the photos of the year - page 10 - Photography and shows a girl from Tanzania, which is already in the morning on the way to the water source. UNICEF is the German photographer who had just been honored last month in Berlin with the media prize
"Kindernothilfe"
so ago: In a two-month-long trip through Tanzania and the Townships around Durban/South Africa in 2006 and 2007, the photographer has portrayed and interviewed more than 50 families, who are massivlye affected by AIDS & HIV. The destruction of traditional family structures by the AIDS pandemic was captured in his the work "The grand mothers". Old women were brought here in the focus, who have to educate a large number of Aids orphans in extreme poverty. Since 2007 this exhibition is touring almost without interruption through Germany and Switzerland and has been shown to over 15,000 people. "The grand mothers" documentary was nominated in 2008 for the Unicef Photo of the Year Award. In 2010 this series was selected on the shortlist of the Henri Nannen Prize and won First Prize at German Media Prize of Kindernothilfe. In spring 2011 C. Gödan will start a series with interviews and portraits about township juveniles in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Documenting their daily life "
Christoph Gödan is specialized in portrait known, feature and industrial photography for well- magazines, customer magazines, annual reports and public relations for companies and NGOs. Since 2005 he has done several trips to Central and South Africa on various topics, like violence prevention in townships around Johannesburg or the nationwide campaign "Water for Africa" (Lions Club , Vodafone, German Red Cross and others), a three-week motorcycle trip from watering place to watering place near the border of Tanzania and Rwanda.

Christoph Gödan at the awards ceremony in November 2010 / photo:.! Kindernothilfe / Thank

More information about
UNICEF Price to the photos and
situation of children there are here:


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The original page on the STAR / Thank you!

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