Kickstarter Project
Omar Havana- Endurance: Earthquake Nepal
On the 25th April last year nearly 9000 people were killed and more than 22,000 injured in the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal. Countless thousands were left homeless. Among the shocked inhabitants of Katmandu that morning was Omar Havana, an award-winning Spanish photojournalist who along with his wife and neighbours fled their home as the building crumbled around them. “I was filled with fear and had no idea what was happening but, as we emerged onto the street, I felt sure that we were some of the lucky people,” he tells.
In the days following Havana’s photographs of the immediate aftermath were used by media around the world and have been published more than 1000 times. But more importantly Havana followed the story long after the world’s attention was taken elsewhere and travelled around the country to tell people’s stories. Endurance is a story of destruction, but also of recovery, a testimony to the endurance of the Nepali people.
“One night, after running all day, photographing, as aftershocks struck repeatedly, I finally fell asleep, hugging my cameras,” he says. “Someone touched me. I immediately thought they might want to steal my cameras but I turned to find an old woman, a woman who had lost everything, covering me with her quilt. She said, “We need to take care of you. You are telling the world the situation in our country. At that moment, I began “Endurance.”
In association with FotoEvidence, Havana has launched a Kickstarter project to raise money to publish his book. “Endurance” will include over 70 black and white photographs shot across Nepal, immediately after the earthquake and in the months following. It will be printed in a hardbound edition, measuring 20 x 30 cm.
Film director Bernardo Bertolucci, who used images from “Endurance” for a fundraising campaign in Rome to help Nepal, will write a foreword. Other contributors include: South African photographer Gareth Bright, AFP Nepali journalist Paavan Mathema and Amir Thapa, Senior Program Officer for International Medical Corps Nepal.
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This year one Editorial Grant recipient will be chosen for the newly instituted David Laidler Memorial Award, in honour of this former employee who passed away in August 2015. David was instrumental in bringing the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography programme to life.
Judges this year are Magnum’s Eli Reed, Time’s Deputy Director of Photogrpahy and Visual Enterprise Paul Moakley, National Geographic’s Director of Photogrpahy Sara Leen, Visa Pour L’Image’s Director General Jean-Francois Leroy and LA Times photographer Carolyn Cole.
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Portfolio Reviews
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