Burnerswithoutborders
11 creative works found
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A BMX rider passes a church building next to the site of Pisco’s San Clemente Cathedral in December 2007, three and a half months after the earthquake that destroyed more than 90 per cent of the city’s buildings, including the cathedral, leaving over 100,000 people homeless. / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families to rebuild. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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Waiting for customers in the main street of Ollantaytambo, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. / / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families who were made homeless as a result of the earthquake. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / /
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These ruins are situated outside the city of Chincha, a medium-sized city near Pisco, in Peru. / / This photograph was taken approximately 3 1/2 months after the August 15 2007 earthquake that devastated this part of the Peru. / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families who were made homeless as a result of the earthquake. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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Ollantaytambo is an Inca village which dates back to Inca times. Many of the houses were built by the Incas. Many of the local people who live there are descended form the Incas and still speak Quechua. / / / / This photograph was taken while I was on a brief vacation while working with Hands on Disaster Response at the site of a major earthquake near Pisco, approximately four hours south of Peru’s capital city of Lima. / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families to rebuild. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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On 15 August 2007 a major earthquake devastated the Peruvian cities of Pisco, Ica , Chincha and Cañete. More than 100,000 homes were destroyed or condemned and over 650,000 people were affected. In the months afterwards, local and international aid agencies came to the assistance of those affected. This house, being built here by one of the families affected, will be home to seven or more people. It was provided by a church organisation based in Lima with labour from Hands On Disaster Response (HODR) and local people. It represents a new beginning for a family who had lost everything. / / / Location: Ica, Perú / / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families to rebuild. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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This child lives in one of the small villages on the outskirts of Pisco, the Peruvian city devastated by the earthquake which struck Peru on 15 August 2007. Over 650,000 people were affected by the earthquake, including this boy and his family. / / / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families to rebuild. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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On 15 August 2007, an earthquake measuring 8.0 devastated a number coastal cities in Peru, including Ica, Paracas and Pisco. This concrete jungle is the remains of sporting facilties in the small city of Paracas. / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families to rebuild. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / / /
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Location: Pisco, departamento de Ica, Perú / / This photograph was taken in November 2007 inside on of the many temporary camps that were set up in and around the city of Pisco after a major earthquake destroyed most of the city’s homes. Out of view, washing hangs to dry in the sun, a couch and some chairs form a make shift living room and office inside a large tent, and pictures hang carefully placed inside the same tent, giving a feeling of family and home. Their houses might be piles of rubble but life continues and the smiles remain. / / / Proceeds from sales of cards and prints from image will be donated to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. / / / Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing families who receive them to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes around this central structure. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / /
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Quechua girl in traditional dress in Ollantaytambo, near Urubamba in Peru’s Sacred Valley. / / / The clothes and flowers are immaculate however it should be noted that these photographs are actually documenting a form of child labour … each day many children, like this girl, are dressed immaculately in traditional finery, so they can pose to be photographed by tourists in exchange for a small payment. No payment, no photograph. / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project. This project assists families who were made homeless as a result of the earthquake. Using volunteer labour and materials purchased with donated funds, BWB are constructing cornerstones for families whose houses are now in ruins. Each cornerstone is a two-room building with plumbed bathroom and kitchen fixtures, all connected to existing water and sewerage services. These cornerstones been specifically designed to withstand future earthquakes and provide a much needed helping-hand allowing people to live with dignity while gradually rebuilding their homes. Further information about this project can be downloaded here / /
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The underlying image was captured in the streets of Lima, Peru, towards the end of 2005, during late-night dress rehearsals for the city’s major festival parade and street party. / / To create this series of images, the camera has become an electronic sketch-pad, documenting light’s interaction with sound, its movement to music an essential component of the process. The emergent compositions reflect journeys into a plethora of disparate visual environments … above and below the oceans, from the microscopic to the panoramic, through history’s bricks and mortar, and back again, to the frenetic point where light and sound merge in a cacophony of beats and bodies. / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project which assists Peruvian families whose houses were destroyed in the August 2007 earthquake. Further information about this project can be downloaded here
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The underlying image was captured in the streets of Lima, Peru, towards the end of 2005, during late-night dress rehearsals for the city’s major festival parade and street party. / / To create this series of images, the camera has become an electronic sketch-pad, documenting light’s interaction with sound, its movement to music an essential component of the process. The emergent compositions reflect journeys into a plethora of disparate visual environments … above and below the oceans, from the microscopic to the panoramic, through history’s bricks and mortar, and back again, to the frenetic point where light and sound merge in a cacophony of beats and bodies. / / Proceeds from sales of this image will be directed to the BWB Build a Cornerstone Project which assists Peruvian families whose houses were destroyed in the August 2007 earthquake. Further information about this project can be downloaded here
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