{"id":3509,"date":"2013-11-09T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:52:18","slug":"humans-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/3509","title":{"rendered":"Humans&nbsp;United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who works at the UN? How did they get there? What are their hopes and dreams? That&#8217;s what I want to try to answer with this month&#8217;s theme for my photo project.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly theme has really focused my photography and it&#8217;s been an interesting ride with only two more months left to complete my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/2941\">year-long project<\/a>. While <a href=\"http:\/\/eyesee2013.tumblr.com\/archive\/2013\/10\">October&#8217;s theme<\/a> of taking a photo of (almost) every meal I had was quite inward-looking (and made me change the things I eat), I want November to be outward-looking&#8230; and what better theme than to do portraits of people working at the UN and find out a little more about them.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is a very large organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/sections\/what-we-do\/\">Their role<\/a> is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain International Peace and Security;<\/li>\n<li>Protect Human Rights;<\/li>\n<li>Deliver Humanitarian Aid;<\/li>\n<li>Promote Sustainable Development;<\/li>\n<li>Uphold International Law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see from the above photo taken just outside the gates of the United Nations Office in Geneva, the UN can sometimes seem like a serious place. Yet at the same time, the staff and people who make up the UN also are very human, passionate, and have altruistic reasons for working for an organization that is known to promote and strive for a peaceful world.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to find out more about the people that work for the UN so what better way to start than interviewing and photographing the amazing people I work with. Everyone I asked volunteered and took the time to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What inspires you about working for the UN?<\/li>\n<li>How did you join the UN?<\/li>\n<li>What do you do for fun?<\/li>\n<li>What excites them about working for the UN?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To keep a sense of consistency throughout all the portraits, I&#8217;ve kept them black and white. <strong>See the photos and their responses here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/eyesee2013.tumblr.com\/archive\/2013\/11\">http:\/\/eyesee2013.tumblr.com\/archive\/2013\/11<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited.png 804w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-550x551.png 550w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-800x801.png 800w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/humansunited-499x500.png 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who works at the UN? How did they get there? What are their hopes and dreams? That&#8217;s what I want to try to answer with this month&#8217;s theme for my photo project. The monthly theme has really focused my photography and it&#8217;s been an interesting ride with only two more months left to complete my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/3509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humans&nbsp;United<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[116,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}