http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0 … world.html

a direct quote from the guy (Reza) featured in the article:

"When people suffer in Africa, without knowing it we suffer in the United States too. But we don't know why we are suffering. Why we are having this distress. Why we have to use Prozac or Valium all day long or to sleep.

"The message is we all have the same blood all over the world. The blood is the same color. When American mothers lose their children in a disaster they cry the same way as a mother crying in Palestine or a Vietnamese mother. I realized when a plane is bombing in South Africa or the Philippines, those people have the same fear.

"How could I explain this as a photographer who has been through all these things? This concept that we are all the same? We may have different colors, different languages, but the essence of humanity is the same for everybody.

"This is the message that photographers should convey to everybody: 'Hey! Wake Up!'

there's also links in there for some interesting things related to photography that Reza's involved in (mentioned in the original article posted above) :

http://webistan.com/
ainaphoto.org

another quote from the end of the original article (posted at top):

"The image that I have is that the rich countries in the world are like a big Titanic where everything is regulated inside. You have different rooms – First-Class, Second-Class – you have a place to sleep and everything is working. There is a fantastic chef and all kinds of restaurants, a concert hall, and entertainment, all in this boat. Everything is fine and people are having fun.

"We, the photojournalists, are also living on this boat. Sometimes we jump out to go and see what is happening outside. What we find is that…My God, this boat is sailing in an ocean of fire and blood, everywhere. People are dying. Living in horrible conditions. Just holding onto some broken piece of wood with a family in the ocean, while the Titanic is just moving around them, sometimes even destroying them. So what we do is talk to these people and take some pictures, then we go back to the Titanic and we try to show our pictures, saying, 'Wait a minute! Stop! Stop! Look what's going on!' But the chef goes on serving the food and the passengers look at us and say 'give us a break – I'm eating my food. I'm opening the champagne.'

"The reason why we are doing this is to save both of these [groups of] people – [those] down in the ocean of fire and blood and also the people on the Titanic. If the people on the Titanic don't care about those people suffering in the ocean, the Titanic will be hit. It will be hit. There are too many people in fire and blood all over the world. There are too many suffering.

"That's what I try to do with my show and my images, and my writing, and the foundation of Aïna. It's a continuation of what I have done in the field, my observations and thinking about what is going on in the world.

"Now, all traditional media in the world is corrupted. But we can create a new way of talking to people. Now we can explain to the people on the Titanic that they have to wake up. That's why I think the Internet and the digital world is the beginning of the new journalism. We are not corrupted."

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