GlobalCompasion, a New Curated Online Gallery
Andrew Gray has just started a new curated online gallery, named GlobalCompasion.com (or See the World) with the purpose to display portfolios of photographers whose work describe cultures around the world. The project looks very interesting and even when it has just started, the high quality of the first portfolio and the purpose of the project make it a site to follow in the future.
So far there is only one photographer, photojournalist/humanitarian photographer Masaru Goto. The portfolio he displays at GlobalCompasion.com is entitled “NIHONJIN, BURAKUMIN: Portraits of Japan’s outcast people“.
The Burakumin are a nearly invisible (yet identifiable) group of Japanese people. They are the remnant of a caste system that formally passed away long ago. Their ancestors were the untouchables. Despite being racially and ethnically Japanese through and through, the Burakumin still face discrimination and struggle together under the weight of their shared history.
If you are interested in submitting a portfolio you will find the information here. I look forward to seeing GlobalCompasion grow and becoming another online display for excellent photographic work.
Wow. Yet another in an infinite line of collections of snaps of bored to death people, standing way too far from the camera, wondering when the stupid photographer making them say cheese will be done. Is the oversized coffee table book @ $99.99 ready, yet?
I like your sense of humor … very peculiar …
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Miguel
FYI, a new gallery is online featuring James Whitlow Delano. He was in Burma/Myanmar when the cyclone hit. During the next week he traveled in and out of the disaster zone before the government closed the lid.
The permalink for his gallery is:
http://www.globalcompassion.com/2008/05/26/james-whitlow-delano/