Monday, February 2, 2009

More of the power of pictures - and sounds

Pending a Four Corners follow-up on Mr. Wright's great link to Magnum Photo's "The Places We Live," here's a BBC story about organic farming near the Kibera, Kenya slum, with photographs...
Mohamed and pumpkin
(Mohamed and the pumpkin [BBC Worldservice, some rights reserved])
The surroundings
(The surroundings [BBC Worldservice, some rights reserved])

a Google map of Kibera...



and more pictures.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wonderful to see organic gardening even amid the slums of nairobi.

Julie Trevelyan said...

Damn cool. And great pics! This is another reason I love the online community...I probably never would have heard about this story so faaar away otherwise. Awesome...