#chris de bode

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Food in a Fragile World // Chris de Bode

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Chasing Dreams with Chris de Bode

To see more of Chris’ work, follow @chrisdebode on Instagram.

Chris de Bode (@chrisdebode) has spent the past six years with his #EyesOn the dreams of children in a dozen countries and counting, from Afghanistan and India to Mexico, Mozambique and beyond. Working on his “I Have a Dream” project, a long-term assignment for Save the Children Nederland, Chris has photographed countless children and has been struck by one common thread. “We all have dreams,” says the photographer and filmmaker from Amsterdam. “But some of us can dream bigger than others. Some of the children I met did not spend their days fantasizing. Those children were busy surviving.” It’s no accident, meanwhile, that the project’s title echoes Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech. “His words are saved in our collective memory,” Chris points out. As for his own dreams, Chris voices a hope that’s both lofty and humble: “When you understand a person from a personal point of view and understand the context in which they live, it is much easier to connect with them. And that is my goal — to make people more sensitive to the world around them.”

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Walking bare feet on green grass. Emam, (10), fled from Syria & now lives in the Zataari refugee camp in Jordan. She dreams of walking bare feet on green grass & playing like she used to do. “Color & grass is what I miss most. The only place here were I feel at ease is the playground. I want to go back home. To the vineyard and the meadows…”

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Flying. Dilan Kaya is a 21 year old young woman living in Istanbul. She is studying urban and regional planning at Istanbul Technical University. Dilan Kaya dreams of flying. She has since she was a kid. In the photo, she is on the little island called Maiden’s Tower. She tries to fly from there while she admires the birds flying above her.

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Farmer. Antonio (11) from Mozambique. His parents have to work hard to get food on the table & healthy & nutritious food is hard to get and Antonio became chronically malnourished. "I want to be a farmer. Not a rice farmer like my dad. I want cows and calves. Cows give milk and that’s what I like best!"

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Chris de Bode: Exodus from Libya (2011) via Foam Magazine

*I’m posting this again because this movement, this exodus, this spilling across borders to escape violence and war is so terribly universal…and a lot of the portrait work on refugees just isn’t doing the work it needs to.

Chris de Bode shot over 500 photos in a 24hr period. The video below shows 12,000 people in 15 minutes.

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chris de bode: dreamworlds

All children have dreams, whether they're born in the United Kingdom, Liberia, Haiti, Mexico, Turkey, India or elsewhere. Children dream of finding a place, both literally and figuratively, where they can be who they want to be, freed from the limitations of where they were born. Chris de Bode spoke to children around the world asking them what dreams they had for their future.

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Chris de Bode on Exodus from Libya (2011) via Foam Magazine

Chris de Bode has photographed an exodus, a line of people on the move from a place in which they could no longer stay to a destination unknown or even nonexistent. To cover the spectacle of the mass departure of Bangladeshi migrant workers from Libya, he took nearly 500 photos in a single day and found an artistic strategy that utilized the repetition and relentlessness that characterized his imagery of the human train.

“I decided to stand still like a tripod shooting all people passing by and recorded the sound of the rolling wheels from suitcases, passing cars and footsteps. [...] Later I realized that the whole event could be used as a metaphor for all people in the world fleeing violence, disaster etc….”

Watch the excellent video below:

Exodus from panos pictures on Vimeo.