APF Staff

Zana Briski’s project of giving cameras to children in India was part of an exhibition of children’s photography at Lincoln Center in New York City. “Outside the Frame,” organized by PixelPress and presented in conjunction with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival included her project, “The Kids of Sonagachi: Photographs by the Children of Calcutta’s Red Light District.” Zana and Ross Kauffman have filmed a one-hour documentary, “Brothel Kids,” which won the audience award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, plus awards from film festivals in Cleveland, Nashville, Bermuda, Durango and the Amnesty International Film Festival. Zana has set up a Kids With Cameras non-profit involving Israeli, Palestinian and Haitian children.

EARL DOTTER received the Alice Hamilton Award from the American Public Health Association, recognizing his ” lifetime of service in Occupational Health & Safety” because of his photography documenting the world of work. The award was presented by the Occupational Health Section at APHA’s annual meeting. Earl has another exhibit at the Harvard School of Public Health. The title is: “When Duty Calls, A Tribute to New York City Firefighters.”

While working on her photojournalism project on the brothels in India, ZANA BRISKI has been teaching local children how to shoot photographs. Some of their pictures are up on her web site at www.pixelpress.org/contents/zana/.

ELIZABETH ROYTE’s new book, “The Tapir’s Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them” (Houghton Mifflin), is based on her Alicia Patterson research. A web site at Booknoise.net features pictures of the animals and scientists of the rain forest. It’s at www.tapirsmorningbath.com.