Ella Tan

Human Scribbles | Global Development | Photographer & Storyteller 📍Based in Perth, Western Australia

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

And there it is. As best as we can tell, we now share this wonderful planet with 8 billion other humans, for the first time in all history.

This 2-min video is an astonishing representation of what 8,000,000,000 people look like as one huge crowd.

https://t.co/xtK3jFjmT4

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

@ChrisHowles Two other great resources on representation and ethics and storytelling practices:

@GirlsNotBrides 'Guidelines for ethical communications around child marriage' : https://t.co/uxuF8ZgUSf

@Amref_Worldwide 'Who Owns The Story?' Research Project : https://t.co/yyNpJFz5Mb

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

It’s springtime in the suburbs of Western Australia 🇦🇺

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

@ChrisHowles This makes really interesting reading: https://t.co/znESEJ4vUt from @savechildrenuk as do the ethical image policies from @WaterAidUK @oxfamgb and @compassion

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[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

@ChrisHowles Many thoughts / practices:

A few ways image-making can be dignifying vs. exploitative or imbalanced:
• A collaborative process + consent
• Combining images with words - names, story, quotes, voices
• Anonymising for sensitive subjects
• People are proud of their pics 1/

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

🇬🇧 #WindrushDay2022

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Today is Windrush day. A day to honour that generation of migrants who helped to rebuild this country after the war

[Hannah Hunter-Kelm @hbhunterkelm]

Sketchbook today. #sketchbook #wip #typography #timothykeller #timothykellerquote

[Jeroen Coelen @Coeluh]

Due to a small hole at my curtains, my room sometimes turns into a camera obscura.

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

A little project close to my 💛 with @katiemccurrach and @hbhunterkelm ✂️

[𝘼𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙢 @MrAshCunningham]

This is what she asks us:

We all know abuse is evil… but will you still call it evil, will you still front up to it when it affects 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 tribe, when it implicates 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 heroes, when it will cost 𝐲𝐨𝐮?

Thank you again, @R_Denhollander

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

Love this photo (@aimusa)

It speaks to me about how the world is so beautiful, colourful, and joyful, yet also can be so sad, arduous, and just downright difficult.

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

Props to the Social Media copywriter at @BBCNews @BBCLondonNews 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[charlie mackesy @charliemackesy]

So much quiet courage everywhere.

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

(2/2) “If we want to understand the people in the foothills of Afghanistan, we may need to try and understand the people in the foothills of England first.”

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

Also, this excerpt from “The Shepherd’s Life” made me slap the book with joy in the library today :

“[This book] tells a wider story about the people who get forgotten in the modern world... (1/2)

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

I started a writing newsletter thingy after thinking about it for far too many months.

You can subscribe here for free(!) for an article or essay twice a month, sent directly to your inbox ✉️

https://t.co/3QIddGjPG3

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

@wendybeechward Congrats Wendy!! 🤗

[Ella Tan @ella_dickinson]

I wrote a poem for the New Year 🦦