Spotlight on crowdfunding: Behind the Smokescreen

Rocco Rorandelli has been documenting the tobacco industry for the last three years, ever since he asked himself what lay behind a cigarette.

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Olivier Laurent

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Emphas.is, Crowd-funding, Photojournalism, Documentary

Rocco Rorandelli has travelled to China and India, seeing his work on the tobacco industry published in Newsweek, L'Espresso, Newsweek Japan and New York Times, among others.

Last summer, he was assigned by Geo France to travel to Indonesia to explore the marketing and advertising industry of tobacco products and last month, he was also awarded a grant by the Fund for Investigative Journalism to document child labor in tobacco plantations.

Now, he's planning to document the US market - the home of the Marlboro Man. To fund his work, he's turning away from traditional sources and looking at crowdfunding via Emphas.is.

Rorandelli is trying to raise $8786 to finance his travels in 2012, which will mark the 400th anniversary of the first successful tobacco plantations on American soil.

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Image © Rocco Rorandelli.

To see the latest chapters of the project, visit the Picturetank website, and to help finance Rorandelli's work, visit his Emphas.is page.

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