Añadido: May 9, 2008
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Black and White trailer Watch the full film Here: http://www.joiningthedots.tv/main.aspx?level=&content=363563628&search=photo David Gillanders is an internationally acclaimed campaigning photojournalist. His portrait of Yana, a homeless teenager from Ukraine won the 2005 UNICEF Photo of the Year award and his work has taken him from the East End of Glasgow to Siberia and Malawi. Black and White reveals the extraordinary lengths to which David goes to get his pictures. He has spent two years on the nightshift with Glasgow's emergency services, putting himself on the frontline in the city's battle against knife crime. The programme also follows David on one of his regular visits to Odessa, Ukraine, where he searches for five homeless teenagers he photographed on his previous visit. In Odessa many of the city's thousands of streetkids inhabit the network of heating pipes under the city. David finds one of the boys, Denis, close to death and returns him to a homeless unit. It will not be long though before he is back on the streets. During his quest, David meets another boy, Andrei, and captures the hellish reality of his existence in his subterranean den, where he sniffs glue and injects home-brewed concoctions of over-the-counter drugs. It is only through building a close relationship with his subjects that David achieves such extraordinary intimacy in his photographs. And whether he is working in Glasgow or Odessa, there is a deep social and moral purpose to his work. 'It's really difficult,' David says, 'to see these people, these friends that I'm making, dying in this way and it makes me angry that it happens and that in itself drives me to continue the project.' David's passion for photography developed in his early teens while training as a boxer in Glasgow. At the age of 16, he was inspired by photographs of his boxing idols to pick up a camera himself and document the atmosphere and reality of Glasgow's boxing culture. In the late 1990's, David began to secure regular commissions from Scotland's leading newspapers and magazines and was able to quit his job in the construction industry. David showed great flair for fashion and portrait photography, but it is for black and white photojournalism in the Magnum tradition that David has real passion: 'To be able to wander the world taking pictures of what you see is an amazing existence but it's a very difficult one as well -- everything is a challenge particularly if you want to cover topics of a social or humanitarian nature. There are real issues in the world which need to be reported on and unless people are out there covering them, they are going to be forgotten about.' With Eastern Europe rapidly joining the West in terms of prosperity and lifestyle, this heart-breaking film looks at some of those left behind. They are children, though many would not recognise their experiences as childhood. We follow award-winning photography David Gillanders as he returns to the country to find many of those children he had photographed teenagers he had met on a previous visit. The film is told through his eyes, and punctuated by moments were he 'steps out of the scene', adopting an objective, journalistic approach to what he finds. But there is no way to be objective about the subject, for him or for the viewer.
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Tags: art camera children dave documentary gillanders glasgow homeless photography photojournalist street ukraine unicef
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