Saturday, 23 June 2007

MSNBC: Kingsley's Crossing

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MSNBC bring us Kingsley's Crossing, a multimedia production featuring the desperate migration of a man from the Cameroon (Kingsely) to France. The photography is by Olivier Jobard, who eventually sponsored Kingsley's residence permit in France, and found him a job.

A sober and sensitive depiction of migration in contrast to our own media's (and politicians) histrionic convulsions about illegal immigration.

Watch it here

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