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An African reminder about the joy
of sport
This positive and life-affirming aspect of sport is the topic
of an unusual book by the Danish press photographer,
Tine Harden, who has taken all the official photographs
from Play the Game 2011.
The book ‘A Kick out of Africa’ is a portrayal of football
across the African continent. In the run-up to the football
World Cup in South Africa in 2010, Harden travelled all
over Africa to document the
role that football plays in the
everyday lives of people like
the Maasai people in Kenya,
Arabs in Rabat and Cairo and
children in the slums of South
Africa.
The book is a deliberate
attempt to give a more balanced
view of life in Africa and move
the focus away from war, disease
and hunger in favour of stories
about vitality and joy.
“There is a journalistic tendency
to present a distorted picture of
an entire continent which, despite
Despite its many problems, sport also brings
passion to millions of people every day
Photo: Tuala Hjarnø
Find photos, videos, slides and texts from the conference at our homepage
A magazine can only give a small picture of a very content-rich conference.
Go to our website www.playthegame.org/2011 to find more information about the conference and discover other
interesting stories from the presentations that could not fit into this magazine.
Find presentations as slides and texts at
www.playthegame.org/conferences/play-the-game-2011/presentations.html
See on-demand streaming at
http://www.playthegame.org/conferences/play-the-game-2011/on-demand-streaming.html
See Tine Harden’s conference photos at www.flickr.com/photos/play_the_game/
its many challenges, offers countless success stories
and many resources – both natural and human,” says
Harden.
Harden's beautiful pictures about the love of football
have played an important role in the 2011 Play the
Game conference. One of the pictures is part of the
official conference logo, and
at the conference Harden
showed an exhibition with
30 photographs from the
book. A copy of the English
language book was also used
as the official thank you
present to all of the 122
conference speakers.
Harden is a freelance
photographer based in
Denmark. She has previously
worked for one of
Denmark's major national
newspapers and has been
voted Press Photographer
of the Year in 1992 and 1999.