Fighting for equal rights through photography

Notice to the Midland School Board Directors, Arkansas

Recently I was invited to participate in future exhibition in Lithuania which aims to fight for equal human rights. The main idea for the exhibition is to deliver the message about strongly existing discrimination of race, ethnic origins, sexual orientation, etc. Unfortunately it is extremely intolerant situation in my country. People are fighting and fighting for years now but the progress is quite invisible.
I chose to make series of photographs against homophobia, which is quite risky..
Unfortunately my research about photography against homophobia was fruitless. I found one young photographer Charles Meacham and his work called "Different Cultures, One View". Charles Meacham is an American travel photographer, who considers himself more as a photojournalist. Recently he participated in a project against homophobia along with blogger Sarah Baxter. They travelled through 15 countries documenting 15 different Prides and published a book "Images against homophobia. Walk with pride".
Sadly enough I couldn't find more works regarding this issue. Maybe in modern world it's not so sensitive and people are much more tolerant, maybe in homophobic countries photographers are not willing to take a risk. My faith in delivering message through photographic images is very strong and I do believe that this type of work might make a change.


http://www.culturazzi.org/photography/different-cultures-one-view-charles-meacham-photography
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/10/notice-to-midland-school-board.html