207) Josué Rivas: Building empathy through deep and intentional photojournalism
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Josué Rivas is the founder of Natives Photograph and a visual storyteller and educator working at the intersection of art, journalism, and social justice. He's been a long-time collaborator of youth climate activist and hip hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (featured in EP41), and his work aims to challenge the mainstream narrative about Indigenous peoples, build awareness around issues affecting Native communities across Turtle Island and be a visual messenger for those in the shadows of our society.
In this podcast episode, Josué sheds light on what the lack of diversity in our media newsrooms has meant for our public discourse and understanding of underrepresented communities; how intentional photojournalism and storytelling can help us build empathy for one another as fellow humans, rather than perpetuate stereotypes or cause divide; and more.
Featured music of the month: Power to Change by Luna Bec
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| 1:11.9 | and review in the podcast app. I read them all. They warm my heart. They keep me going. And I really, |
| 1:17.4 | really appreciate your support. So thank you so much. Somebody tells you, you know, well, |
| 1:22.5 | like we need profits over protecting the earth. And they're repeated to you a hundred times. |
| 1:27.5 | And they repeat it through you through the movies. |
| 1:29.3 | They're shaping your reality. |
| 1:30.8 | They're programming you, and they're programming us. |
| 1:33.1 | So that's what I might mean is that, like, reclaiming your narrative and telling your own story |
| 1:37.6 | and creating spaces for other people to tell their own story, it's like healing, and it's |
| 1:41.9 | also going to bring us back to, to like just loving ourselves a little more. |
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