Tuesday October 19,2010

Good day! I am currently marking your elements of composition photographs. You should have all of the portraits posted by MONDAY--No later! I will have to take late marks off as you should spend more time working and being on task. This week, please catch up. Grade 12 I will give you an assessment based on what I see on your blog. You should have:
At least 12 photos: all with details on who you are looking at (photographers, if you are)
Titles (as to what part of your portfolio will it belong to)
Remember grade 12, you must create images that meet the criteria for Photo 12--that means you must spend time wisely, work independently, ask for assistance if you are stuck and constantly take photographs!

We will continue looking at Mimi Chakarova: follow the link below.

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Interview with Mimi hosted by Captive Daughters.org
CD: How and why did you become a photographer?

MC: I can say that it started with City College of San Francisco where I took some of my first courses in photography. But my interest in photography developed a lot earlier. I didn't speak English when we moved to the States and the camera became an extension of language. Also, no one in Bulgaria believed that we were poorer in America than back home. I thought the camera could be my trusting witness. I think even at that age I associated photography with truth and evidence of an existing condition. This is the reason I was so interested in pursuing documentary photography and long-term projects where you earned the trust of those you photograph.

CD: When you travel to countries to photograph these women, how do you gain access to their lives?

MC: I always tell my journalism students at Berkeley that access is the toughest part of the job. There are several ways to gain it. You can work with organizations that have already built trust within a community or you can do it on your own, which takes many years and requires a great deal of patience. I've worked both ways -- through NGOs as well as on my own. Some of the deepest access resulted from the latter, but again it took a long time to establish a presence in these women's lives.
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The Cause of Sex Trafficking is the Demand for it.

Just like arms and drug trafficking, human trafficking exists to meet the demand.

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An estimated 2 million women and children are held in sexual servitude throughout the world, and between 800,000 and 900,000 are trafficked across international borders for the purposes of sexual exploitation each year.  These women and children make up the "supply" side of sex trafficking.

This supply has been created to meet a demand.  Without this demand, there would be no need for trafficked women and children.  The demand side of the trafficking equation includes those (mostly men) who buy sexual services and/or consumer goods (videos, Internet pornography, etc.) created from the sexual exploitation of trafficked persons.  Little attention has been given to the demand created by those people and organizations that benefit from the commercial sexual enslavement of women and children.

To combat sex trafficking, much more information is needed to understand the root causes and conditions that create a need for a supply of trafficked women and children.  Without this information, those who are motivated to exploit and use trafficked victims will continue to remain a mystery.  By understanding the dynamics of demand, we can develop the legal and political policies necessary to control and end this horrific practice.  ------captivedaughters.org

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