{"id":194,"date":"2013-03-21T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djclark.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:17:31","slug":"rethinking-the-famine-story-a-multimedia-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/rethinking-the-famine-story-a-multimedia-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Famine Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-796 alignnone\" alt=\"DJC0049543-e1314870716456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djclark.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DJC0049543-e1314870716456.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Famine has been conventionally associated with Africa, and portrayed visually through stereotypes. As in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.david-campbell.org\/2011\/07\/16\/thinking-images-v-20-famine-iconography-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent media coverage of the crisis in East Africa<\/a>, photographs of starving children with fly-blown faces, removed from their context, remain common.<\/p>\n<p>Dr D J Clark, working as a multimedia journalist for China Daily, set out this summer to do something different. Focusing on the larger issue of food insecurity in Asia, he photographed, filmed and produced a six-part video series to provide a more complex story. Shooting in Nepal, Bangladesh and China, Clark explored the impact of population growth, urban growth, changing tastes and biotechnology. You can see all of the videos (parts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/25299968\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/25628269\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/25922169\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/26196204\" target=\"_blank\">4<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/26466440\" target=\"_blank\">5<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/27037617\" target=\"_blank\">6<\/a>) on his Vimeo site.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaging-famine.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/rethinking-famine-story-multimedia-series\/\">Click to read the full\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famine has been conventionally associated with Africa, and portrayed visually through stereotypes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}