Tiny children and teens toil in the gold mines of the Philippines. It is very risky business, sometimes deadly. But child labor is growing as families rush to exploit the worldwide craze for gold.
Published November 28, 2012
Where did the cocoa in your chocolate bar come from? Who mined for the gold in your wedding band? What ocean did the fish on your plate come from?
These are all questions that Pulitzer Center photographers Dominic Bracco II, Nadia Shira Cohen, Peter DiCampo, Jason Motlagh and Larry Price sought to answer with their projects on various commodities from around the world.
In these videos, the photographers reflect on their reporting while discussing the challenges of telling the complex stories of the people behind the commodities.
The panel discussion titled The Story Behind the Story: Global Goods, Local Costs was a FotoWeek DC event sponsored by the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs and the Pulitzer Center in association with the GW Program Board.
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Dimiter Kenarov and Mark Schulte to speak to middle and high school students from San Diego and Baja California at the 16th annual WorldLink Youth Town Meeting.
Pulitzer Center photojournalists spread out across Washington, DC, to showcase their work on the local costs of global goods.
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