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	<title>Tom Pietrasik Photography &#124; Photographer &#38; Filmaker</title>
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		<title>MONSOON SHOWERS &amp; PHOTOGRAPHING DITA VON TEESE</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/10/08/photographing-dita-von-teese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dita von Teese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unexpected events and unforeseen circumstances are an inevitable part of a photographer's life. Such moments can be the source substantial stress and it is important to minimize the likelihood of them happening. But surprises also have the potential to transform a mundane moment into something very special. I held on to this positive thought while I photographed Dita von Teese. ]]></description>
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		<title>SHORTLISTED FOR VIRGIN MEDIA SHORTS COMPETITION</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/09/18/virgin-media-shorts-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/09/18/virgin-media-shorts-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twelve shortlisted entries of the 2011 Virgin Media Shorts competition have just been announced and I'm pleased to say that my film Saloon is among them.]]></description>
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		<title>DRESSED FOR A TANZANIAN WEDDING</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/07/04/youth-fashio-tanzanian-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/07/04/youth-fashio-tanzanian-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Street photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[red]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of those gathered on the beach in Dar es Salaam appeared decked out in their very best but it was one particular group, wearing coordinated red outfits, that demanded the attention of everyone else - and that included me as I approached them with my camera.]]></description>
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		<title>FROM PHOTOGRAPHY TO FILM-MAKING</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/06/08/photography-movie-film-india-male-barber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/06/08/photography-movie-film-india-male-barber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grooming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairdressing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tompietrasik.com/?p=1676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of 2010, while photographing for a commercial client in New Delhi, I had to negotiate the not-insignificant challenge of working alongside a film-crew. I've been in this situation several times before but on this occasion there were six of them - directed by an Academy Award winner no-less; my assistant Sunayana and I were well and truly outnumbered! In this fast-converging world of still and moving images, many photographers are making the move into film-making. For my first outing into the world of cinematic journalism, I spent a weekend observing the very serious-business of male grooming on display in a lower middle-class suburb of New Delhi. The movie, entitled "Saloon", provides a glimpse inside the intimate yet very public space that is the Indian barbershop.]]></description>
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		<title>THE OBLIGATIONS OF A PHOTOJOURNALIST</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/05/12/ethics-photography-hunger-malnutrition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/05/12/ethics-photography-hunger-malnutrition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 08:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development assignments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malnutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Simon Norfolk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attempting to specify where photojournalism ends and art begins is a pretty pointless task. But in the case of Norfolk, I raise the issue because later in the Radio 4 interview, by explaining his approach to photography, Norfolk seemed to perfectly define the merit of photojournalism - as oppose to art - and the obligations that are incumbent upon all of us lucky enough to have been brought up in the Developed World but who work in much poorer countries.
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		<title>PHOTOGRAPHING CORRUPTION IN INDIA</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/04/28/photographing-corruption-india-rations-pds-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/04/28/photographing-corruption-india-rations-pds-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tompietrasik.com/?p=1551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is clear that acts of corruption including fraud and bribery are incredibly difficult to photograph but I did recently have the privilege of witnessing first hand, the work of those whose responsibility it is to confront corruption by holding public officials to account.]]></description>
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		<title>INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY EXHIBITION</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/04/11/indian-photography-today-exhibition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/04/11/indian-photography-today-exhibition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tompietrasik.com/?p=1527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These photographs will be displayed at Brighton's AM Gallery from tomorrow as part of an exhibition called Indian Photography Today. The show will feature a diverse range of work from several photographers under the broad banner of contemporary Indian photography.]]></description>
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		<title>THE SAD STORY OF DHANGA BAIGA</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/03/28/malnutrition-tuberculosis-rural-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/03/28/malnutrition-tuberculosis-rural-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development assignments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baiga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binayak Sen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dhanga's is not an isolated case. Thirty-three percent of Indians are underweight with a BMI (Body Mass Index) below 18.5 which, Dr Binayak Sen says amounts to a "genocide without bullets". Sen, a public-health activist and advisor to the JSS, currently resides in prison, serving a life sentence on false charges of sedition. Sen's real crime has been to expose the Chhattisgarh state government's appalling failure to represent the interests of those to whom it was elected to serve: ordinary people like Dhanga Baiga.]]></description>
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		<title>INTERNATIONAL WOMEN&#8217;S DAY</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/03/08/international-women-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/03/08/international-women-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development assignments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tompietrasik.com/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of an Indian farmer and it is likely that you will conjure up the image of a man, dressed a dhoti - or perhaps wearing a turban - toiling in a field of wheat or rice. But as Neelam Prabhat of AROH pointed out to me last week, it is women who shoulder the burden of 70 to 80 percent of the agricultural work that takes place in India.]]></description>
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		<title>ARUNDHATI ROY PORTRAIT PUBLISHED</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/02/13/arundhati-roy-photograph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/02/13/arundhati-roy-photograph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Published work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arundhati Roy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Jack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently photographed Arundhati Roy for the Guardian and one of the portraits was published the following Saturday alongside an article by Ian Jack headlined, Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter.]]></description>
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