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Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine
Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years.
He is part of the team (with Luis
Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João
Roque)
that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating
the Earth in chain letters via e-mail. Icaro
gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated
by Isabell Erdmann:
The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism
magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to
bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound
journalism about topics of real importance to the world
of today.
This
is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.
We
started to research relevant, global, and current facts
and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to
the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the
websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.
The
campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005.
There are eight flags that portray very current topics like
the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United
States, the violence against women in Africa, the social
inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia,
Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.
With
regards to the email presenting the campaign as being done
by a Norwegian diplomat, this information is completely
wrong. There is no Norwegian diplomat called Charung Gollar,
there was no presentation in the UNO, and the campaign is
not called ‘The Power of the Stars’. This was
all invented and is going round the world via email.
That’s
it, basically.
ICARO
DORIA
