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The Outside of the Inside: An Interview with Martina Holmberg
Swedish photographer Martina Holmberg has won first prize in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025 for her portrait Mel. Based in Stockholm, Holmberg is an internationally exhibited photographer and writer whose work focuses on people’s lived experiences. Mel is part of her ongoing project The Outside of the Inside , which documents people with facial and physical differences, celebrates diversity, and challenges discrimination. The portrait shows Mel, a burn survivo
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3 days ago4 min read


The Impact of AI in Creative Communications: AI-Generated Content versus Human Creativity
by Michael Anyangbeso Artificial Intelligence is often portrayed as a threat to humanity, a theme prevalent in science fiction and critiques alike. But is our increasing reliance on AI truly dangerous? Could it lead to our extinction or just stifle our creativity? Artificial intelligence has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives, whether we're looking for the best strategies to market a product or creating a colourful children's book without any background in design
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Dec 22 min read


Anna McNamee: Why Ethics and Religion Matter
The Sandford St Martin Awards are the UK’s most prestigious broadcast awards for radio, TV and online programmes that explore religious, spiritual or ethical themes. Established in 1978, they are the only awards in the UK that specifically seek out the best content that supports religious literacy across communities or promotes a better understanding of how people identify or define their place in the world. As part of Pearl Works’ series on ethical journalism, Julie Phan
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Nov 136 min read


Eitai: Transforming Research into Film for Global Impact
by Sally Bashford-Squires My journey to Uganda began over a decade ago when I travelled as a teacher with a charity, invited to work alongside educators to develop active learning approaches. However, I quickly realised that in this rural area of Uganda, that before learning could take place, basic health needs such as clean water and food had to be met. I began fundraising within my community and managed to support the building of a water harvester and a school on a remote i
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Oct 146 min read


An update of our recent work
We are thrilled to take you on a journey through some of our recent projects. In September, the Argidius Foundation published its first...
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Oct 18, 20241 min read


The Eye that leaves the Village
Sonyanga Ole Ng’ais is a Maasai warrior from Laikipia in Northern Kenya. He longs to bring positive change to Maasai culture by ending...
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Oct 24, 20232 min read


More awards for Writing the World Backwards
Writing the World Backwards has just won the Silver Elephant award for best mental health film at the 2022 Short Breaks Film Festival. It...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read


Rewilding the System
Proud to have been involved in the making of experimental documentary film, Rewilding the System, showcasing extraordinary stories of...
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Nov 9, 20221 min read


Food: Creating Resilient Solutions
This week sees the publication of the Argidius Foundation's Annual Review. We are delighted to have played a role in the story-telling...
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Nov 8, 20222 min read


A Tale of Two Cities
Art and ecology residency for film and multi-media project about environmental regeneration in the UK and Ethiopia. Sally Hyslop from the...
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May 14, 20222 min read


A Call for Compassion
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Jeanna Stutinsky-Mason has chosen a career many people would find too difficult to...
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Feb 26, 20214 min read


A Town Built on Stories
Film documentary project telling the extraordinary story of a town's 60+ bookclubs and the role reading plays in the darkest of times....
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Jan 11, 20211 min read


Broadcasting in the time of Corona
On January 20th, I will be taking part in a discussion organised by the Sandford St Martin Media Trust exploring how broadcasters working...
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Jan 11, 20212 min read


Hope in Challenging Times
The beautiful photo of Maxmillah Waithera, in Kayole slum, Nairobi was taken by Sven Torfinn and features a project conceived by an...
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Sep 23, 20201 min read
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