alan wieder's streetpixx

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alanwieder@gmail.com

My name is Alan Wieder and I have been taking photographs on the streets, alleys, and of course many other places for over 30 years. The photographs exhibited on this site were taken in the United States and throughout the world. The overwhelming majority of shots are of children in the United States and southern Africa, but there are also pictures from India, France, Holland, Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, Cambodia, and Viet Nam. Most recently I have again shot in South Africa and just this past March in Mexico. More important than my photography work the last two-plus years is that I have just sent my manuscript of an oral history/narrative history of South African freedom fighters Ruth First and Joe Slovo to the publisher.

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May Day 2013 :

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streetpixxBusan :

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Galleries

Updated: Mar 03, 2009 4:04pm PST

Southern Africa : I began photographing children in southern Africa in 1999 and the last of the photos exhibited were taken in May 2008. They are from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.

Southern Africa

I began photographing children in southern Africa in 1999 and the last ...

Updated: Nov 19, 2009 8:46am PST

Somali Bantus : Hundreds of Somali Bantu refugees settled in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. The photographs in this gallery were taken in Columbia, South Carolina.

Hundreds of Somali Bantu refugees settled in the United States at the ...

Updated: Nov 19, 2009 8:49am PST

Tibetan Childrens Village : I went to Dharamsala for the Dali Lama's teaching and ended up spending a good amount of time at the Tibetan Children's Village. The kids were beautiful, interesting, and totally interested in what I was doing walking the campus and taking pictures.

Tibetan Childrens Village

I went to Dharamsala for the Dali Lama's teaching and ended up spendin ...

Updated: Nov 13, 2009 8:12am PST

Nathan and Joel : Nathan is 34 and Joel is 32. So that means I have been shooting each of them for around three decades. Nate is a chef and lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He is presently managing the Prepared Food section of a Whole Foods. Joel lives in Cambodia and is working on a nutrition project for UNICEF.

Nathan and Joel

Nathan is 34 and Joel is 32. So that means I have been shooting each ...

Updated: Jan 05, 2013 8:55am PST

Updated: Jul 20, 2012 5:39pm PST

Joanie and Me :

Updated: Nov 16, 2012 12:12pm PST

Black & White :

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Updated: Jan 05, 2013 8:43am PST

Europe -- World Cup 2006 : In the summer of 2006 I traveled throughout Europe with Barnett Berry during the soccer world cup. We began in Paris, took a train to Prague, drove to Krakow and then on to Berlin where Germany was playing Argentina. We finished the trip in Amsterdam. We watched matches at a cafe in Paris, in the bar where Havel took Clinton in Prague, and in city squares in both Krakow and Amsterdam. We watched the match in Berlin with thousands of others who didn't secure match tickets at the SONY Center. The stories are much richer as are the pics from throughout the Continent.

Europe -- World Cup 2006

In the summer of 2006 I traveled throughout Europe with Barnett Berry ...

Updated: Jul 04, 2012 9:37am PST

JBC Foundation - Cambodia : This gallery includes photographs depicting two projects of the Jeanine and Billy Children's foundation in Cambodia. There are pictures of grandmothers/grandchildren whose children/parents have died of AIDS. The foundation helps to support these grandparents as they raise their children's kids. In addition, there are photographs of a school for children whose parents are HIV Positive that the organization supports.

In their own words:

JBCF established a special fund, for orphans or children whose father or mother already died of Aids. From this fund the children receive financial support in order to continue their education. The purpose is to facilitate a foster family programme to care for the predicted boom in children orphaned by Aids.
Via counselling of the families, opportunities will be looked for how to increase the income of the family where possible in order to find ways to become more independent.

For the already HIV infected children JBCF, together with Maryknoll's Children's Homes, created a safe home where children infected by HIV receive care, education and medication from the staff. The estimated costs for this medical treatment will be around US $550, - per year per child. The anti-retroviral therapy medication will be received from the Ministry of Health. Below is what I wrote about the Foundations work.

For more information on the foundation that Billy Barnaart facilitates in Phnom Penh go to www.jbcfoundation.com. BILLY BARNAART IS IN THE FIRST AND LAST PHOTOGRAPH.

JBC Foundation - Cambodia

This gallery includes photographs depicting two projects of the Jeanin ...

Updated: Jan 07, 2010 3:13pm PST

Children U.S. :

Updated: Nov 16, 2012 12:13pm PST

Cambodian Children : Cambodian Children were photographed in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and in rural villages near Kep.

Cambodian Children

Cambodian Children were photographed in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and in ...

Updated: Jan 07, 2010 3:47pm PST

Cambodia/Viet Nam : These photographs were taken in both Cambodia and Viet Nam -- Phnom Penh, Kampot, Siem Reap, Ho Chi Minh City and more.

Cambodia/Viet Nam

These photographs were taken in both Cambodia and Viet Nam -- Phnom Pe ...

Updated: Jan 07, 2010 3:18pm PST

HATS : For 30 years I have been in search of the perfect Miro hat. At some point in college I owned it but much to my chagrin it went missing. None of the hats that people wear in this gallery are even close, but still I am intrigued. They include family and friends, but also people in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Dharamsala, and India.

For 30 years I have been in search of the perfect Miro hat. At some p ...

Updated: Dec 04, 2012 8:14am PST

Phil Wikelund Benefit : May 2010 Phil Wikelund's legendary Great Northwest Bookstore burned to the ground. Since that time the Portland community has reached out to Phil in ways that he never imagined. On Tuesday August 17 there was a fundraising benefit at the Crystal Ballroom. There were local and national performers -- music and poetry, food, and a silent auction to raise funds to help with the demolition costs of the amazing one-time church that housed Phil's bookstore. This Gallery includes just a handful of pics of Phil and some friends. Visit Phil's Firefund on facebook for more information on Great Northwest Bookstore and the fire.

Phil Wikelund Benefit

May 2010 Phil Wikelund's legendary Great Northwest Bookstore burned to ...

Updated: Jul 04, 2012 9:42am PST

San Miguel : A handful of photographs of children from San Miguel Allende -- a few more to come.

A handful of photographs of children from San Miguel Allende -- a few ...

Updated: Jul 25, 2012 6:12pm PST

Ububele : (From the Ububele webpage -- www.ububele.org)
Ububele was established in 1999 by two clinical psychologists, Tony and Hillary Hamburger, each with over 30 years experience of practice, community involvement and training. They felt that the political struggle for freedom which had culminated in South Africa‘s new democracy now needed to continue as a psychologically empowering campaign. The rationale for its establishment is based on the recognition that there was, and still is a significant gap in the quantity and quality of counselling services in disadvantaged communities in South Africa. Believing that the best way to tackle this problem was to provide direct support and training to professional and lay counsellors working in such areas, the psychologists began working with lay counsellors in Alexandra Township, a suburb of Greater Johannesburg. They were able to identify the most urgent needs of the Alex community in terms of psychotherapy and began the process of designing a set of interventions tailored for the needs of existing professional and lay counsellors. Alex is ideally suited to serve as a ‘test’ community. Here problems are identified, programmes to address these developed and implemented, and the evaluated trainings then become available for dissemination throughout the region.

(From the Ububele webpage -- www.ububele.org) Ububele was established ...

Updated: Aug 15, 2011 7:18am PST

Constructions/Collages : Am starting to have some fun with constructions -- next collages. Shot with the new Sony RX100 -- very, very small and very, very powerful but not what one would shoot this type of stuff normally.

Constructions/Collages

Am starting to have some fun with constructions -- next collages. Sho ...

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Updated: Nov 16, 2012 12:09pm PST

Monks/Nuns/Ascetics/Clerics :

Monks/Nuns/Ascetics/Clerics

Updated: Jul 25, 2012 6:14pm PST

New Hats : The Hat Gallery was getting too large so here is a second -- easier to explore.

The Hat Gallery was getting too large so here is a second -- easier to ...

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streetpixxBusan :

streetpixxBusan

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