Take A Picture, Tell A Story

“I'll take your photo, you tell me a story” sums up the idea behind Robert Gumpert's compelling collection of still images with audio.  You can access the project here. 

The Debt Trap

A series about the surge in consumer debt and the lenders who made it happen.

Christ Child House

The boys at Christ Child House, a sort of modern-day orphanage on Detroit's west side, represent just a sliver of Michigan's foster care system and its more than 6,000 legal orphans. As they wait to be reunified with their own families or find new lives with adoptive parents, the boys grow up together sharing tears and tantrums, giggles and hugs, uncertain futures and some surprisingly happy endings.

Common Ground

The last half-century has seen the disappearance of the American family farm, and the grave cultural and environmental impact of the resulting suburban sprawl.  In 14 years of looking and listening, Scott Strazzante sets judgment aside as he explores the evolution of one plot of Illinois farmland, and the people who live their lives there. What results is Common Ground, in which we are given a chance to mourn what is lost, but are also challenged to question the meaning of home.

A New Beginning

Produced by Peter Power and Janice Pinto. Aerial photography by Vincent Laforet.

Wife Of The God

When a God is angry in African traditional religion it is because an ancestor did not make restitution for a crime and the God must be appeased. Amongst the Ewe people of southeast Ghana, female relatives of the ancestor who committed the crime are brought to the shrine to reconcile with the angry God and become fiashidi, which in the Ewe language means, "wife of the god."

Evangelical organizations say the fiashidi are slaves of the shrine and lead an international campaign to liberate and rehabilitate the females. African religion traditionalists consider the fiashidi queens of the town to be holy and believe the liberation campaign is a ploy to eradicate African traditional religion.

There is a growing Evangelical Christian movement through Africa which is erradicating traditional religion. The town of Klikor is an example of a people holding onto the beliefs of their ancestors despite local and international pressure to change.

Dana Romanoff lived in Klikor in search of what it meant to be a wife of the God: are these women slaves to the shrine or queens of the town?

Kingsley's Crossing

In the developed world, illegal immigration is a hotly debated political issue. From the eyes of the world's very poor, it is an excruciating personal decision, made to make life a little bit better for one's self and one's family.

Kingsley is 23 years old, and lives in a two-room house with his parents and seven siblings in a West African coastal village in Cameroon. He is raised with an image of Europe as a kind of promised land: if he can only get there, life for himself and his family will improve.

Photojournalist Olivier Jobard introduces us to Kingsley as he makes the difficult decision to embark on his "mission," and then accompanies him, documenting his perilous journey. Step by step, across desert and ocean, we come to see immigration through one man's eyes, and learn the rewards, and the costs, of such a dream.