Midway

The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times.

With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy and our own complicity.

MIDWAY continues through 2013. Please go to www.midwayfilm.com for more information.

Minuano (six eight)

Rosa no dia da Mãe

A roseira da minha Mãe floriu hoje.

The Silence of Dogs in Cars

I was once left in a car at a young age. I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside a supermarket, probably for fifteen minutes only. The details don’t matter. The point is that I wondered if anyone would come back. The fear I felt was strong: in a child’s mind it is possible to be alone forever.

Around the same age I began to feel a deep affinity with animals – in particular their plight at the hands of humans.
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© Martin Usborne

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Road Song