Authors:
Barbara Kiser
What's the fastest way of cutting through barriers of distance, language and culture? To Fiona Bailey, it's a photo on the Internet. And when children make contact this way, amazing things can happen. Bailey knows. In 1997, she initiated a photo and e-mail exchange between 120 London schoolchildren and more than 100 others in Dhaka, Nairobi and Cape Town. "A Tale of Four Cities" ran for a year and a half and left an extraordinary body of photographs that attest to the project's success at building intercultural bridges. The photos clinched the relationship, made it real," says Bailey. "The…
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