Jun

Outtakes from Senegal

After spending the year studying in France, I decided to head to West Africa for a couple of weeks to work on a personal project about some very inspiring young people in Senegal. You can see the whole project here on my portfolio site, but I wanted to share a few additional images that were not apart of the final edit.

Go to full story La Jeunesse Sénégalaise

Some of the young journalists that I featured in my project interviewed me before I left. I’ve posted the interview below for anyone who can bare my poorly spoken French.

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carrapide.com/dakar/senegal/youth

Jan

Protesting for History

I walked outside today and found myself right in the mist of a very interesting protest. I grabbed my camera and spent the rest of my day figuring out what all the commotion was about. As I started to speak with folks, I realized that they were protesting about an issue that I had skimmed over about a month ago in the paper. – It’s an issue of freedom of speech, historical perspective, and the relation between France and Turkey.
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Protestors gather in Paris, France to voice their opposition against the French parliament’s consideration to approve a bill that would make it illegal to deny that the 1915 killing of Armenians by the Turkish military was genocide, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2012.

The bill passed in the lower house of the French parliament Dec. 22, 2011. It is now being considered in the upper house senate, where it is expected to receive a vote on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.

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Oct

Les “indignés” (outraged) in Paris

I’m currently in Paris, France studying for the semester and I heard from a friend about a protest taking place at l’Hotel de Ville that was similar to the Occupy Wall Street protest happening in New York right now and all around the world in response to global economic inequality. The outrage has hit Paris, and though it’s not as intense, yet, as others around the world like in Spain and America, it’s interesting to see the universal dissatisfaction.

Protesting in response to a global financial crises and in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, hundreds descend near Hotel de Ville in Paris, France saturday afternoon Oct. 15, 2011. The Protest in Paris takes places during the same time as several others all around the world in an effort to display outrage against economic inequality.