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"The Other Globalisation"
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Project description
 
"Why do you do what you’re doing?"
For three years the photographer Katharina Mouratidi portrayed activists of the Global Justice Movement from 43 countries: farmers and workers, students, reindeer-breeders, native and indigenous people, scientists, Christians, atheists, citizens and revolutionaries. She asked all of them, including many internationally recognised, prominent personalities - like Peace Nobel Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú and Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics Joseph Stiglitz - the same question:"Why do you do what you’re doing?"
 
In answering this question, the interviewed related a great deal about their own stories and personal motives for their engagement. The answers Mouratidi collected are as exceptional as they are varied - spectacular and normal, aggressive, loving, full of longing, idealism and hope, but also moving, alarming, and thought-provoking. Considered together, they have only one thing in common: the certainty that, for the survival of humanity and our planet, a change in consciousness - leading to another globalisation from which all people profit, as well as to a sustainable relationship with the environment - is absolutely indispensable.
 
This work has been travelling internationally since September 2005. Some of the locations:
 
2008
FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA
Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, USA
 
2007
Melkweg Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
City Hall, Stuttgart, Germany
 
2006
Photokina, Cologne, Germany
 
2005
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
Foto&Photo, Fotofestival, Mailand, Italy
 
A book on this project has been published in 2006:"Venceremos! The Other Globalisation", Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany (www.editionbraus.de), Hardback edition, 128 pages, ISBN 3-89904-246-8, 19.90 Euros.