The Infinite Why · A curated collection
An evolving reading room of films, books, art, ideas and remarkable people.
Change the lens and the picture changes. The Footnotes offer other ways of seeing a subject: they can widen the view, deepen it or turn it around.
Start with a connection
Photograph from the Afi Mountain storyOur story about women defending Afi Mountain in Nigeria finds a compelling companion in Virunga, the documentary about rangers protecting a threatened national park in the DR Congo. The circumstances differ; both explore who gets to protect a place.
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Begin with a story, then take the path through its evidence. These are original companion pieces, with links to the people and records behind them.
Footnotes companion · Environment · History
The detailed record behind Dividing the River: the petitions, traditional fisheries, court rulings, Titi Tihu’s waiata and the settlement that recognised the Whanganui as a legal person.
Read the longer historyPhotograph: James Shook · CC BY 2.5 · Source
Original Footnotes investigation · People · Human rights
What happened after the photograph? A sourced record of sustained humanitarian, ecological and public advocacy, following the work beyond the moment of attention.
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