VII PHOTO + BLUE CHIP FOUNDATION

MILLENNIUM VILLAGES PROJECT

In 2015, the United Nations agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals to move humankind toward prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. To illustrate the progress made, photographers from VII Photo, with the support of the Blue Chip Foundation, documented the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), a ten-year project designed by economist Jeffery Sachs in ten African countries, which worked toward eliminating extreme poverty by focusing on its root causes. TEM produced All Fronts Forward, a film shot by Ed Kashi about MVP’s progress in Bonsaaso, Ghana.

Work from the MVP exhibited in the Visitors’ Lobby of the United Nations Headquarters in December of 2016, and at Photoville in September 2017.