James Whitlow Delano – Fifth Dispatch: Slash Cameroon’s Rainforest and Lose Ancestor’s Souls
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
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James Whitlow Delano – Fourth Dispatch: My Odyssey to Learn What Gold Wreaked on Suriname
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano chronicles the influx of foreigners, the ecological toxification and the adverse cultural effects of intensive mining in Suriname.
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James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates
We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.
Continue ReadingJames Whitlow Delano – Second Dispatch: As the Rainforest Goes, So Go the Batek?
I was mingling with one of the oldest tribes of humanity and they may vanish before most of the human family even know that they had ever existed at all. It may sound heady, but I am honestly trying to do my part to prevent this from happening.
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James Whitlow Delano – First Dispatch: Return to the Rainforest
Over the months ahead, I want to make some sense about how a long-term project on the needless destruction of the equatorial rainforest came to be an obsession and how I have attempted to visually portray this form of daylight robbery.
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