CIDA's international development work ranged from technical training, to infrastructure projects, to healthcare and education. 
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The Canadian International Development Agency and refugees or forcibly displaced people abroad

Visual disruption
​CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THE SEMIOTICS, VISUAL POLITICS, SOCIAL LIFE, and POTENTIAL HISTORY of these photographs.

For example:
  • On the one hand, these are representative of a category of pictures that would be considered "propaganda" photographs: staged pictures intent on selling the image of a "generous Canada". 
  • On the other hand, these are photograph that responded to the critiques emerging from within the humanitarian sector of its having been "merchants of misery" (Lissner 1981).
  • Photographer ​Stephanie Colvey talks of emotional toll of working to a tight schedule in tough situations. Something she credits with contributing to changing her approach to photography: audio time stamp 00:27:00