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doctorswithoutborders:

REMINDER!—In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Action

LIVE Online Webcast

Monday, April 30, 2012 - 8:00 PM

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We’re hosting a webcast in celebration of MSF’s new book: In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid published by MSF, NYU’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), and Humanitarian Outcomes. The book is the result of attempts to better understand how humanitarian aid and its principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence are perceived by the people receiving assistance.

We invite you to join us for an online panel discussion to mark the English-language release of the book. Panelists will include contributors to the book as well as MSF aid workers, who will share stories from their field assignments reflecting issues of perception and exploring the many facets of humanitarian action today.

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Moderator:

Phil Zabriskie, Managing Editor at MSF-USA Panelists:

Caroline Abu-Sada, Coordinator of MSF’s research unit for humanitarian action in Geneva and editor of In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid

Abby Stoddard, Co-Director of Humanitarian Outcomes and contributing writer to In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid

Dr. Darin Portnoy, Vice President, Médecins Sans Frontières International, former President of MSF-USA, and MSF aid worker

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alanreed:

The Northumbrian town of Alnwick boasts a magnificent castle which has appeared in several films including one of the Harry Potter movies. It also has the stunning Alnwick Gardens. Over the years I’ve had the privilege of painting both. In 2003 I was commissioned to paint over a dozen Northumbrian Castles in watercolour for a leading North East company to grace the walls of their boardrooms and Alnwick Castle was one of them.

I had already decided that I would spread the paintings out over the course of a whole year so that I was capturing all of the seasons. After working out when the sun was most likely to be catching the ancient architecture, I felt that the last light of a summer evening was going to best for this particular scene.

It was painted on an expensive hand made watercolour paper, heavily textured, which was ideal for rendering both the stone and the foreground grasses. It also allowed me to make quite large, free brush strokes to indicate the low lying clouds reflected in the slow moving River Aln. The painting that was commissioned worked well for the client and I was so pleased with the result that I decided to do a slightly different interpratation of the same view which I later reproduced as a limited edition print. The original watercolour can be seen at my Studio & Gallery in Ponteland.

alanreed:

Susan and I were saddened to hear of the death of David Peat on 16th April after a long battle with Myeloma. I had the privilege of working with David back in the autumn of 2001 on a television idea my brother and I had. We decided to make a short pilot video of the idea and some friends of ours recommended David whom they had known closely for many years.

Part of the idea was to show the cooking ability of my brother Philip, so it was decided that David and I would meet up at the restaurant where Philip worked as the head chef, the Launceston Place Restaurant, Kensington in London. The other part of the idea was to show my watercolour painting skills on location, so I was to be filmed outside, painting the street scene, including the restaurant.

Philip and I had no experience working to camera but David made us both feel at ease. He demonstrated his award winning talent as a film maker right from the start. David took stock of the scenario and came up with some great camera angles to capture me painting which made it a lot more interesting than watching paint dry. The way he filmed Philip cooking was equally impressive and although I say it myself, the pilot came out really well. We never managed to get it seen by the right people and eleven years on, I don’t think that British television needs another cookery programme.

I’ll try and get the full pilot uploaded soon, but in the meantime, here is the section that David Peat filmed of me painting.

http://youtu.be/nBEdCAEpeA8

To find out more about David Peat, take a look at his website davidpeatphoto.com     Also there is a touching obituary to David which elaborates more on his career in BBC News Scotland.

(Source: theartistswife.com)