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Stepping from Behind the Lens to Lend a Hand

By Stephen Shames

in Photojournalism on August 13th, 2007

In my trips to East Africa in recent years — from 2000, when I documented the lives of AIDS orphans, to 2006, when I photographed former child soldiers living in refugee camps — I became convinced that educating Africa’s future leaders was the most valuable thing the West could do to promote democracy and prevent [...]

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