Local Conversations: Sao Paulo 2008

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Contact: Brigid Fries: brifries@uol.com.br

Eduardo Barcellos launched an on-line image bank, Images of Peace, (sponsored by Nutrimental) with 300 images at a special ceremony in SESC Paulista Avenue on Friday, April 18th in Sao Paulo. Six years in the making, this image bank proposes to house a growing archive of images of peace to be made available at no charge to NGO's working for social good and for a fee to others.

Barcellos was originally inspired by the international media dialogue initiative, Images and Voices of Hope, and spent six years working with lawyers on rights issues and web designers on the technology to support the image bank.

Christina Carvalho Pinto of IVE (www.ive.org.br), the Brazilian branch of Images and Voices of Hope, and Judy Rodgers, founding director of Images and Voices of Hope (www.ivofhope.org), attended the launch in Sao Paulo. Images and Voices of Hope will sponsor an ongoing global search for images to expand the Image Bank.