Afternoon Tea
Welcome to the Tea Party. The Tea Party is a right leaning movement that came to prominence after the election of Barak Obama.
The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star
The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is a non denominational Church based in South London.
The Tar Sands
"The Tar Sands" is not finished as I will be going back to Canada in March to photograph in the winter and to focus more on the Loubacon First Nations. I will be looking at marketing the Tar Sands through various agencies.
The Tar Sands - Roland Woodward
Roland Woodward is a member of the Cree Nation that live next to Lake Gregorie provincial Park, outside of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
During this six minute multimedia piece, Woodward describes the difficulties the First Nations have in gaining employment in North America's largest Industrial project, The Tar Sands.
Once the bitumen from the Tar Sands has been mined out and Fort McMurray becomes the," Detroit of the North" The Cree will be left with the effects of polluted rivers, Tailings Ponds, a naked landscape that was once Boreal forest and the steam injection operations that have polluted the groundwater, not to mention the health complications brought by all of this pollution.
The Tar Sands - Donna O'Miniac
Donna O'Miniac discusses the damage and effects of SAGD operations in the Peace River country of Northern Alberta.
The SAGD operations are part of the process of extracting Bitumen. Large pipes are drilled into the ground. Hot steam, mixed with chemicals melt the Bitumen while another pipe brings the Bitumen to the surface and sends it to an extractor.
The whole process is very ecologically damaging as tremendous amounts of water are needed, thus the lakes of northern Alberta are disappearing. The chemicals seep into the groundwater causing fatal health problems for the Cree Nation that live in the area.
The Tar Sands - Wayne Groot
Wayne Groot is a Potato farmer in Alberta's Industrial heartland located outside of Edmonton, Alberta. There are plans to build more converters for the Ft.McMurray Tar sands oil industry. Groot does not support this as it will wreck ecological devastation.
The Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay's watershed covers the states of Maryland, Virginia, West virginia and Pennsylvania.
previously, most of the pollution on the Chesapeake Bay was caused by the heavy industries located on the susquehanna River. Today, those industries are in decline, the problem affecting the Bay is, "Lifestyle Pollution" of over urbanisation spilling oil from gaskets, fluids from air conditioning units and run off from new development lawns.
The story focuses on the watermen of Tangier Island who catch the infamous Blue Crabs as they describe the effects that pollution is having as the Bay's health is defined by, "If the crab population is healthy, then the Bay is healthy"
The Chesapeake Bay - Alan Parks Interview
Alan Parks is waterman from Tangier Island, he discusses the trials of being a waterman.
The Chesapeake Bay - Interview James Wyatt Eskeridge
James Wyatt Eskeridge is a waterman and the Mayor of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay, he discusses the problems of the island and is a great supporter of Israel.
England or Bust
Over the past ten years, The Port of Ostend has become a major gateway for illegal immigrants trying to enter the United Kingdom. Ostend is attractive to the refugees as there is a direct ferry service to Ramsgate with thirteen ferries leaving every day, carrying 600 lorries. New technology is making detection easier but the immigrants find creative ways to avoid detection.
No immigrants at the CAW Centre in Ostend agreed to be photographed or reveal their names, apart from two refugees, one from Afghanistan who has Belgian residency who explains the process that the refugees undertake to evade the British authorities. The other, an Algerian, suffering from Diabetes describes his gruelling trip across Europe.
