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1 Path to Unlocking Your Potential

This one simple belief has protected me from discouragement and despair. It has fueled improvement in everything from my relationships to my photography.

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1 Path to Unlocking Your Potential

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Photos to Save Indigenous Cultures?

The way of life that the Agta and Dumagats have lived for centuries is about to experience unprecedented pressure. What can photographers do?

From Visual Peacemaker JACOB MAENTZ, a freelance travel, culture and documentary photographer based in the Philippines.

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Photos to Save Indigenous Cultures?

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Perspectives on Poverty

Too frequently, a quest for funding uses dehumanizing images to draw pity, charity, and eventually donations from a largely unsuspecting public.

From Visual Peacemaker Duncan McNicholl of Engineers Without Borders.

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Perspectives on Poverty

Galleries

Matt Brandon’s gallery: Our Shared Humanity

Colorful images from around the world. They speak powerfully to us about the dignity and beauty intrinsic to every human being.

Photographs really can make differences if we will just stop and look for a moment to see what they are saying to us.

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Matt Brandon’s gallery: Our Shared Humanity

Documentaries

ex:change

This short film highlights a heart-touching friendship between Molly and Anum.

Muslim exchange students in the USA struggle to dissociate themselves from extremism. American youth are "labeled" too. But hope exists.

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ex:change

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Staged Photographs, Visual Peace, & Conflict Photography

How do Visual Peacemaking and Conflict Photography relate? Ruben Salvadori soon realized he was not very interested in documenting the Palestinian rioters or the Israeli soldiers. It was the photographers that began to interest him, so he began to observe the photographers role in these situations.

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Staged Photographs, Visual Peace, & Conflict Photography

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Gavin Gough’s 2011 Portfolio

Gavin Gough is an independent, freelance travel photographer. Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Gavin travels extensively, working on assignment, on commission, creating stock images, writing and teaching.

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Gavin Gough’s 2011 Portfolio

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10 How To’s for Visual Peacemaking

What do Visual Peacemaking projects look like? What themes do they explore? Where can we find them? How do we create them?

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10 How To’s for Visual Peacemaking

Documentaries

Take the Journey

What is Visual Peacemaking? Who is the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers? Can I get involved?

We hope you get inspired when you see what visual peacemaking is all about and your place in it. We hope you share this movie with your friends.

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Take the Journey

Photo Stories

Create Your Photo Story

Whether you’re a seasoned multimedia visual storyteller, or if you’re a newbie wanting to try your hand without learning new software, we’ve provided a simple photo story creation tool for you.

A Simple & Fast way to tell short photo stories.

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Create Your Photo Story

A Peace of my Mind: Odeh Muhawesh

by John Noltner on May 08, 2012

Odeh Muhawesh spent the first 18 years of his life living in Jordan and now lives in the United States. In his own words, he was a Middle Easterner, and is now a MidWesterner. He travels often and has been to four continents. Odeh believes that deep down we are all the same. If you put John Doe from Iowa next to Abdallah Mohamed in a room and they got to know one another, they would find that they both have the same fears and the same dreams. It is imperative that we get to know one another if we are going to get along in this world.

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Project Prompter #5 - Touch

by John Machado on May 01, 2012

From January to June 2012 we're offering the chance to hone your skills, contribute to Visual Peacemaking, & win a Blackrapid Strap---the original camera sling.

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A Peace of my Mind: Fred and Judy Baron

by John Noltner on April 27, 2012

Fred and Judy Baron are survivors of Nazi death camps in World War II. They met after they were liberated, as they were recovering in a hospital. They moved to America, got married and started a family. They talk about the absolute absence of peace in the camps, how they found peace again in their lives and how it is our obligation to look after one another in this world, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.

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6 Lessons from David’s Latest Photo Story

by Special Guest on April 24, 2012

"Nothing worked as I had planned." What did David learn?

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Intentional Seeing

by Mario Mattei on April 20, 2012

"Living in a foreign country can be a real mix of experiences & emotions...there are times when it's really hard," admits photographer Cheri Magarrell.

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A Peace of My Mind: Hans Early-Nelson

by John Noltner on April 09, 2012

Hans Early-Nelson is a metal sculptor and artist. He is an avid biker and swimmer, and talks of learning to live in community. Hans sees himself as a mediator and he shares a story of urban justice when he witnessed a robbery take place. He tracked down the thief, and convinced him to return the money to the rightful owner. In the process he learned a little bit of the thief’s history and wound up giving him ten dollars of his own money as a reward for returning the money he had just stolen.

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