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TEDxRC2 - Patrick Chappatte - Revealing the Humanity Behind the News

2,614 views · Published 13 December 2011 · 11:12 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Patrick Chappatte is a renowned editorial cartoonist and previous TEDGlobal and TEDxParis talker. His work is published in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times' global website, the NZZ and Le Temps. In 2009, he travelled to Lebanon with the ICRC to get a first-hand look at how cluster munitions continue to maim and kill, long after they were dropped. His visit resulted in a groundbreaking animated documentary called, "Death in the Fields." It can be viewed at www.icrc.org/eng/chappatte 

Featuring excerpts from the film, Chappatte's TEDxRC² talk explores how illustrations provide a powerful way to refocus attention on forgotten crises -- in a world where we are over-exposed to images of suffering and despair. He also expands on how drawings and animation can take us places and make us feel things that no other story-telling genre can. 

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