Dysturb

“Dysturb Collective emerged out of the need for stories to be seen. Often locked away behind paywalls, inside magazines or lost within the incessant chattering of media elites, key stories were being missed by huge chunks of the population. The Dysturb solution? To stick them up on the walls of densely populated cities like Paris, London, New York and beyond.

“A collective of photographers, war journalists and artists, Dysturb have been using urban spaces to tackle the world’s biggest issues since 2014. Campaigns such as #Reframeclimate and #WomenMatter have made an impact on both sides of the Atlantic, with the group pasting more that 2000 posters around the world, and giving media literacy workshops to more than 10,000 students. And when COVID-19 first hit, they of course jumped on it to offer an alternative take on the crisis.”

— Guillaume LeGoff, Huck Magazine

From the Dysturb Manifesto:

“Dysturb supports the core goals of photojournalism : to enhance interactions between the people touched by social, political or environmental injustice with those, remote, who can potentially help. 

“By pairing physical actions with online content, Dysturb transcends the fast pace of news cycles and helps to inform an audience who doesn’t necessarily read the news or who no longer trust traditional news channels.

“Dysturb believes in educating the youth and contributes actively to fighting the spread of disinformation and misinformation by organizing workshops focused on media literacy and critical-thinking training in schools, universities and companies.

“Dysturb respects the sensitivity of the youngest audience members by not displaying overly graphic or violent visual content in the public space.

“The coverage of issues should be done with fairness and thoroughness, acknowledging that all photography and journalism is interpretive, but that as observers it is incumbent upon each (photo)journalist to try to overcome any bias.”