It is interactive. It is multimedia. It is an experiment. It was a project in the urban space of Pecs, Hungary. It is a website.

In October 2010 I was on assignment in Hungary to document the project pecs2010chairs for Temporary City. The assignment consists of three parts. A short video to go viral and be shared on different websites, a set of pictures for press use and finally a website. It started with the idea of a live-blog to get people updated about the development of the project that was running for a week. Some small updates with a bunch of pictures or raw videoclips, that is how it started.

It ended with an interactive multimedia website. It took around ten days in total to shoot, edit and program. The structure is simple. You can decide to take the linear way through the project, following the project moving through the city OR you can decide on your own which parts are interesting for you and choose the non linear way and look for events, places, interactive parts or other keywords. It’s all up to you.

To give you a little deeper insight in the thoughts behind the concept of the website, I recorded this little take below. And you can find the website here. Looking forward to hear what you think!

ICELAND II – Images by Simon Sticker

…… about prostitution …….. the private life of ancille: video I words ……. the private life of clotide: video I words ……. spac

(click on the links to get to the individual films)....

For more about the effects of Climate Change in Kenya watch also last years documentary here.

///What makes you happy?/// .. ///What would you wish to happen at the end of the day?/// .. ///Where would you like to wake up?/// ///About///

(click on the links to get to the individual films)

Gahanga Orphanage, Rwanda – Images by Simon Sticker

Some month ago i was working for a Germany-based NGO called the Baobab Family in Mombasa, Kenya to capture their projects, which is beside an orphanage mainly about HIV/Aids, two subjects which are standing in a very close conherence (as you could see here). The orphanage was and is the key project with what the whole project started, nowadays having 31 kids in care. Because of the major problem behind it, HIV/Aids, they started two other projects, namely called the Baobab HIV Care & Awareness program and the Baobab production program. in the production program they give the supported people a chance to take care of their lifes by giving them education in mainly tailoring. The Care & Awareness program on the one hand supports HIV+ women to give them the power again by giving them the feeling of not being alone with it and also with giving them the chance to work and care for their families that way by doing a little bit of money. But another big part of their work is doing prevention and reconnaissance work to fight the stigmatisation of HIV/Aids in the community and create a new understanding of the disease. They start with it at a very young age now, in the schools, doing little clubs where they write poems and do little theater about the theme. For me, as said before, it seems like that education is the only sustainable way to get out of this when you look at it on a larger time scale.
The film is showcasing the different projects as well as it is giving a moving look behind the scenes of the lifes of the people (Watch the full talk with Benta here). Even when a film could not give you the experience, the smell in the slums, the sounds and the feeling of being in this little huts to understand a bit more, what it means to live under this circumstances, something what is even hard to understand when you are there, maybe it could give a glimpse of a feeling for it. And what could actually be done. It’s not the big things that make the biggest changes there, sometimes the smallest things could change the life of the people there forever.

Read more about the topic here.

Rwanda revisited – 15 years after the genocide – Images by Simon Sticker