Category: News
New website now online
The last couple of months I’ve been beavering away in the background, going through all my work from the last few years editing, sequencing, adding, culling and eventually finalizing my new website, which includes an integrated blog, where you are probably reading this post. Thanks to Jonathan Pryor aka ivyowl for the design.
The new site is especially a showcase for my documentary work looking at underground and off beat cultural stories. Hope you like it: www.philclarkehill.co.uk
in Mexico and available for assignments
Just a quick line to let everyone know that I’m back in Latin America – this time in Mexico until mid March.
I’m working on a story here in the south, and also available for documentary and travel assignments. I’m on my UK number at the moment +44 7748 800276 and email philclarkehill@gmail.com so do get in touch if you need anything from this part of the World.
Buenos Aires part 2 in National Geographic Traveller
Another nice little Buenos Aires city guide piece in this month’s National Geographic Traveller, thanks to Vicky Baker for the article. You can see a sample of the article and the mag here
Tango dancers in La Boca, Buenos Aires
New National Geographic Traveller features
Not just one, but TWO features in this months National Geographic Traveller magazine, a Rome city guide and a great edit of the Oruro Carnival pictures, to see the full spreads you’ll have to buy a copy, though there’s an online preview here: http://natgeotraveller.co.uk/jan15/
Bolivia – culture – Carnival in Oruro with elaborate costumes, a UNESCO World heritage event
Free to Party book now published
Phew! the all consuming crowd-funding, editing designing checking prepping writing, alongside organising an event is now DONE, and Free to Party is published.
Once again thanks to everyone who helped the project happen by pre-ordering the book through Indiegogo, would have been impossible without you all.
There are a very limited number of books still available, what a great Christmas present for a fellow raver…
Just click here, easy: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-
Free to Party bookazine Indiegogo campaign
Ready, set, GO! Free to Party bookazine indiegogo campaign is NOW LIVE Please take a look and pre-order your book… Go on, it’s only a tenner!
See more info and order here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-to-party–2/x/69955
Recently published works
Here’s a quick roundup of some recent publications, click links or pics to see more of each. I’ve also been working on a personal project in the background, more of that here soon.
The Washington Post, with Dom Phillips. Attitudes to sex in a modern Brazil
Brazil’s singing Gauchos multimedia piece, shot for the BBC with Gwendolen Von Einsiedel.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28012853
CNN reporter injured during World Cup protest on opening day of games:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/12/brazil-v-croatia-world-cup-2014-live-report
Video online / App version of Greenpeace Lufthansa story:
http://beatofbrazil.lh.com/de/de/brasilien-natur/einsatz-am-amazonas
Santeria photo story from Cuba last year published by Vice:
http://www.vice.com/read/santeria-in-cuba-phil-clarke-hill
Rio prepares for Carnival, shot for the BBC (Americas) travel website:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/slideshow/20140228-the-biggest-carnival-to-date
Buenos Aires like a local, shot for National Geographic Traveller, text by Vicky Baker.
http://natgeotraveller.co.uk/destinations/south-central-america/argentina/like-a-local-buenos-aires/
Brazil vs Croatia game in Do Moinho favela
Later on that fateful first day of the World Cup in Brazil, a quieter and family friendly event was going on, with political hip hop in a Sao Paulo style, football of course and the community watching the game together, good vibes down there. Lucky Brazil brought it back in the game, as you could feel the whole country in tension, it was clear there was more at stake than just a game of football tonight.
World Cup 2014 starts in the streets
It was with mixed feelings that Brazil received the start of the World Cup, in Sao Paulo anyway. No later than 10am Police were out in force at Carrao station in zona l’este east zone, clashes followed first between a small group of protesters by the Choque division, firing stun grenades. During the skirmish, a female team from CNN were hit, one of whom suffered a broken arm and was carried off on a stretcher.
Clashes between Police and protesters got severe quickly, Police firing tear gas whilst protesters threw rocks and bits of street furniture, and set flaming barricades in the street. The crowd of protesters were dispersed fairly quickly into fragmented groups. Some then passed onto the main highway that leads to Itauquera stadium. They almost blocked the road, so Police fired teargas into the oncoming traffic leaving the public to have to drive through it. One woman was seen having severe breathing difficulties after riding through it on a scooter. Protests also happened in many other Brazilian cities, some with violent clashes.
Do Moinho community, Sao Paulo, on the eve of the World Cup, Brazil
Do Moinho favela in Sao Paulo is the last one left in the central part of the city, rather than the periphery. A strong community, it has held up resistance on more than one occasion and survived a tragic fire in 2011.
On the eve of the World Cup, local residents held a football game and hip hop session in the main square, good friendly vibes down here, though the lyrics certainly had a political edge, as is known with Sao Paulo Hip-Hop.
Greenpeace Paulo Adario feature in Lufthansa magazine
I’m very happy to announce that the feature I shot with writer Adrian Geiges back in April, is out now in this month’s ‘Brazil special’ of the excellent Lufthansa magazine, published by G+J, Hamburg.
The story, in association with Greenpeace Brazil, documents how ‘UN Forest Hero’ and generally all round inspirational character; Paulo Adario and his team, use a small plane to survey deforestation and environmental crime from the air, predominantly in the Amazonian state of Pará, Brazil. It was one of the most interesting assignments and closest to my personal work that I’ve ever done , so thanks to Michael and Penelope from G+J for putting me on it.
During the flight we flew over the Belo Monte dam site (below), a project I’ve been documenting since it commenced in 2011, so to see it from the air 3 years into construction had a great deal of impact on me, as I’m sure it will on the readers of the article.
Sao Paulo ‘nao vai ter copa’ protest
Protests and social unrest continues in Brazil, with official statistics stating at least half the population are angry and upset with the Government spending for the World Cup rather than excited about the football. Whether this will continue and escalate during the Cup is open to speculation. On Saturday 31st May around 2000 protestors took to the streets of Sao Paulo to protest against the Cup, chanting the slogan ‘Nao Vai ter Copa’ (there will be no Cup), holding a memorial for the workers who died building the stadiums and burning the Brazilian flag outside the Sao Paulo institute of football. The majority of the protest was peaceful, with some minor damage and scuffles when protesters entered Barrafunda transport terminal and then boarded a subway train.
Over the coming weeks there are more protests planned, so what’s left to see is whether it will disrupt the sporting event.
Buenos Aires National Geographic Traveller
The Buenos Aires feature I shot in Feb is out in print now in this month’s National Geographic Traveller – text by Vicky Baker, online version here: http://natgeotraveller.co.uk/where/argentina/333420/
Havana collection now available on 4 Corners site
A selection of the Havana set I shot last year for the UK edition of National Geographic Traveller, is now available for purchase on the 4 Corners Images website, you can see the series here
Buenos Aires ‘Live like a local’ for National Geographic Traveller UK
I recently got back to Rio from Buenos Aires where I was shooting an assignment for the UK edition of National Geographic Traveller. It’s for the ‘Live like a local’ section, showing readers some ideas for doing just that, living like a local.
The piece runs in the May edition of the print magazine, but for now here’s a preview of one of the images, Tango at El Cathedral, a classic BA Milonga!
