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Dragon: Immigration is what makes UK 'brilliant'

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Dragon: Immigration is what makes UK 'brilliant'
In 1995, after building a successful mobile phone business, he bought the stationary chain Rymans. It has some 230 branches an is worth £40m. He also owns the Robert Dyas homeware chain and a lingerie retailer. He is said to be … He is now promoting …
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BTE: Service Innovation in the Spotlight
It's possible they could get more efficiencies from hardware, but what they really want is a more responsive business, one that can react more quickly to changes in customer requirements and connect the technology to the business.". … "I've been …
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Dear Everyone: Stop Saying Failure Is Necessary for Success
We also hear about spectacular failures—Solyndra, Amp'd, and Color come to mind—and plenty of founders seem to view failure as the cost of doing business, or even as a badge of honor. Last year, Blake Mycoskie, founder and … My recovery plan is …
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Turning Information Chaos Into a Business Asset
But, in reality, it's not that simple, and trying to do so actually increases the potential for information chaos. Mobile and Cloud: These two ideas have become key to our expectations of where we can work, when we can work, with whom we can work and …
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Illegal Immigration in Arizona Comes into Focus

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Every year since 2001, no less than 150 mummified and decomposed bodies of illegal immigrants have been discovered in remote areas of Arizonas Sonoran Desert. With his latest work “Left Behind” documentary photographer Jonathan Hollingsworth delivers a sobering look at the illegal immigrants who do not survive the Arizona border crossing and the personal effects they have left behind.

To drive the transformation of the work into book form, a Kickstarter campaign with video (http://kck.st/wPJ7cI) for “Left Behind” has been launched.

The series takes the viewer on a journey through the day-to-day operations of the Pima County Forensic Science Center in Tuscon, AZ, which faces the task of analyzing and storing the border crossers’ remains, archiving their possessions and, hopefully determining their identities. Attention is also given to Green Valley, AZ through the examination of belongings left on the desert floor by migrants awaiting road-side pick-up at night.

This book is important for a number of reasons, said Jonathan Hollingsworth, creator of the project. It is a way of humanizing the immigration issue we face in our country. It points to how desperate these individuals are to escape their circumstances and start a new life. Essentially this book stands as a kind of memorial to people who died alone, without ceremony and who often are still unknown.

Betting on the promise of crowd-sourced funding through Kickstarter, the first edition of “Left Behind” will include 1,500 9×12 casebound copies, spanning 112 pages with 65 four-color plates, in the fall of 2012.

About the Artist

Jonathan Hollingsworth is a documentary and fine art photographer in New York City. His work has been exhibited across the United States and has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), Photo District News and GUP. Follow him on Twitter @HollingsworthJD and join the conversation with #LeftBehindBook.

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