Playground
Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo.
Month: September 2015
Worn floor
The worn floor around Senhor Joaquim’s barber chair. “The 60 year old floor sits under this one, this floor is a little over 30 years old”. Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo.
Barber
This morning I went to get a hairy and give my barber Senhor Joaquim a copy of a book of photos I made from Brazil. He features in the book and was very happy to see if after a long hiatus. At the end of my haircut he tried to give me money for the …
Farhad Rahman – Song of a Coast
Farhad Rahman Song of a Coast The sea changes by time. Land lost with reaming past. New story created with a new settlement. Time changes people’s lives beside the sea. Mood of coast, swinging randomly, changing its landscape. Born in a small country like Bangladesh, with 580km of Coastal area beside the Bay of Bengal, …
Estella
Another ray of sunshine, Estella is a librarian working here in the mapoteca (they have whole library just for maps!). This is her expression as she explains to me (in the voice of her pet birds) how excited they become when she walks through the front door. Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo.
Sunlights
The sun just peeked through this cloudy São Paulo day. When I was a kid my parents used to take me and my brother camping a lot in outback Australia. We would get out maps and plan our trip, looking at names of towns and mountains we didn’t yet know. I guess something rubbed off, …
Screen Lab
APPLY NOW TO SCREEN LAB NEW YORK CITY October 13-17, 2015 EXTENDED deadline: September 30th LONDON November 10-14, 2015 FINAL deadline: October 15th WHAT IS SCREEN LAB? Screen Production Lab is a training and mentorship program that focuses on production and distribution of visual documentaries across media platforms. THE AIM We …