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April 21, 2007 Installing the Bed NetChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
Donate money for bed nets as part of the Magnum on Malaria/Malaria No More partnership.
April 20, 2007 The Task of DistributionChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
Before bed nets are distributed, demonstrations are performed to show recipients how to hang them. Everyone who comes learns what malaria is and the importance of using bed nets to prevent mosquito bites—an integral part of the distribution strategy. Health workers read from a list of pre-registered families. 13,600 bed nets were handed out today in 12 different locations. This distribution is part of a nationwide strategy to provide bed nets to pregnant mothers and families with children under the age of 5. By the end of May 580,000 bed nets in total will be handed out throughout the country. Donate money for bed nets as part of the Magnum on Malaria/Malaria No More partnership.
A Country to CoverChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
Roughly 500,000 bed nets sit in a storage facility in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, ready for distribution through various partners including Malaria No More and the President’s Malaria Initiative. It is part of a nationwide effort to effectively cover half of Uganda’s most vulnerable people, women and children. Donate money for bed nets as part of the Magnum on Malaria/Malaria No More partnership.
April 19, 2007 Asimwe's RecoveryChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
Kabale, Uganda: I always have a bit of dread before I enter a children's ward of a hospital. I've been to several through the years in a number of developing countries and today, being in the largest hospital of southern Uganda, serving 1.5 million people, was no different. Thirty metal and thinly mattressed beds, all occupied with children, none older than 5, filled the Kabale Regional Hospital and not surprisingly 30 to 40 percent of the cases were due to malaria. Last week, Annette Kyarikunda's daughter Asimwe had a high fever, was losing consciousness and falling down frequently.
April 17, 2007 A Flowering IndustryChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee As the national industry producing anti-malaria medicine matures, farmers are meeting the demand by growing artemesia which pays more than tilling Uganda's dark soil for food crops. From Chien-Chi Chang's trip in Uganda, exploring the many facets of malaria with writer Kyu-Young Lee, here are three examples of older entrepreneurs who have changed their businesses in response to the country's needs.
When A Parasite Outsmarts A DrugChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
Flora Twikirize, who is 4 months pregnant, was brought to the Kabale Regional Hospital by a neighbor after collapsing and losing consciousness in her own home. A week ago, when she fell ill with fever and headaches, her husband brought her to a local private clinic where she was tested and diagnosed with having malaria. She paid about $8 and was given chloroquine which in the past several years has proved to be ineffective against malaria in Africa. Though the malaria parasite has grown resistant, many private clinics still prescribe the drug because their inventories are full of it.
April 16, 2007 Field of DreamersChien-Chi Chang and Kyu-Young Lee
It’s 9:30 am when Chien-Chi and I hit the main road on our way to the fields where people are planting shrubs that when processed into a drug, is a proven life-saver. The plant is called artemisia and Africans are now producing it for themselves. It is the essential part of ACTs,or artemisinin combination therapy, the first line of defense against malaria which claims more than 3,000 children’s lives every day in sub-Saharan Africa. Donate money for bed nets as part of the Magnum on Malaria/Malaria No More partnership. We’re in Kabale which lies in the south western tip of Uganda. At this time in the morning a mist envelops the city like a halo, as if enshrining a holy land. Winding between giant green hills, I look over and see farmers buzzing with activity. Here are a few photos from the field, and the factory where they process the plant.
April 15, 2007 Magnum on Malaria
Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang is currently in Uganda, accompanied by writer Kyu-Young Lee, to document the many sides of the malaria story – the tragedy, the solutions, the hope for tackling this disease – through the narrative potential of photography. It is the first effort of a new, ongoing project we’re calling Magnum On Malaria, through which we will track the worldwide effort to bring this disease under control. In the run up to Malaria Awareness Day on April 25, Chang will visit factories where first-line malaria drugs are being produced, fields where key ingredients are being grown, medical clinics where malaria is the number one cause of visits, homes where bed nets are used, a bed net distribution center and a brand new state-of-the art bed net factory. Donate money for bed nets as part of the Magnum on Malaria/Malaria No More partnership. Chang has just begun filing photographs from the last few days in Uganda. Watch this space as we explore the story of malaria through his lense. The story of malaria begins with the scale of the problem. 40 percent of the world’s population, some 3.2 billion people, are at risk of contracting malaria. There are 350 to 500 million diagnosed cases each year. The problem is most severe in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 1 million people die every year from the disease. Children and pregnant women are most vulnerable: malaria is the leading cause of death among children in Africa, with a child dying every 30 seconds from the disease; women are four times as likely to contract malaria as other adults, resulting in miscarriages and dangerously low birth weights.
April 13, 2007 Digitizing the Magnum archiveWith an archive comprised of photos from 110+ artists shot over the span of 70 years, the task of digitizing Magnum's archive is a daunting one, to say the least. While Magnum's active photographers are still producing and submitting new work, the archive is the greatest source of images being added to the digital database. While the word archive evokes images of rows of print-boxes, cabinets containing duplicate slides and shelves of contact sheets and captions, which one might find in three of Magnum's four offices, the term might be applied to all material which exists in and out of the office in their original form, i.e. negatives and original chromes.
As mentioned above, various forms of photos exist in the physical archives. There is an estimated one million photographs in the New York office archive. These can be either prints (most are black and white on either resin or fiber-based paper), slides of black and white prints, duplicate color slides and original color slides of all sizes, though the vast majority of these chromes are 35mm. The black and white material is stored in folders within custom-made boxes and the chromes are stored within archival sleeves which hang in filing cabinets.
April 5, 2007 The attentive art directorI've been doing this for a long time and I've finally come to the realization - and it took me quite a while - that we all work on things, generally, with a lot of concern and interest and we actually have a very subjective and strong point of view. And we believe in it, and we think it has great value and that is what we want to show up in our work. Everyone who is looking at our photographs is also very subjective and they react to it through who they are and they get something from it and you never know if they're getting what we [want them to get.]
It's unreasonable to think that they are gonna get exactly what we want and what we got from the situation but we hope we can bring them close so they can feel and think more or less the way we do about that situation. Very often it's an important issue to us. It’s not just trying to make something look beautiful; we're usually photographing issues for a lot of reasons, most of them subjective, and with intent.
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