June 24, 2016

Friday Round Up - 24th June, 2016

This week a photographic tribute to those innocents who are caught up in the horror of conflict and have to flee their homes. Plus WARM Festival in Sarajevo and the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad calls for submissions for this year's festival.

Feature: What War Has Done To Me

(C) Nake Batev EPA Macedonia

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Anastasia Taylor-Lind about her work Welcome to Donetsk for a feature I am working on for New Zealand Pro Photographer magazine.

Anastasia told me that while she was in Kiev, Ukraine she began thinking about how people are portrayed in wartime.

How you lose your identity, are stripped of being who you are - a girlfriend, sister, writer, photographer.

Instead you are labelled a refugee, you become collateral damage, a victim, a product of war.

I found her words really profound and I hope as you look at these photographs you see beyond the label "refugee" to the person and imagine how their lives have been irrevocably changed by conflict, changed by an event in which they had no part, but which has rocked them to their core.

You can also watch this video on Al Jazeera in which "refugees" talk about how they feel about that word and what it means to them. 

It's time the media started using a different language, one that recognises the individual, one that remembers we are talking about human beings, one that shows respect and compassion. 

Let's move the conversation. 


(C) Alkis Konstantinidis Greece


(C) Angelos Tzortzinis AFP Lesbos


(C) Angelos Tzortzinis AFP Lesbos

(C) Borce Popovsk AP Macedonia


(C) DarkoVojinovic AP  

(C) Eddie Mulholland The Telegraph Lesbos


(C) Robert Atanasovski AFP/Getty Macedonia


(C) Santi Palacios AP Lesbos Greece


(C) Stoyan Nenov Reuters Macedonia

(C) Warren Allott The Telegraph Hungary

Festival:
WARM Festival Sarajevo
26 June - 2 July



Sarajevo, 94 (C) Enrico Dagnino
The city is besieged, water is missing, the electricity and the gas when present are as dangerous as a bomb the home made stoves regularly explode burning big and small. The attempt of the Muslim soldiers to break the siege end in massacres of soldiers on the front line. 

The WARM Foundation presents WARM Festival, a week long event dedicated to war reporting, war art and war memory.

Bringing together journalists, artists, historians, researchers and activists WARM aims to showcase a range of media that includes photojournalism.

This year there are several exhibitions with work from Andrew Quilty, Enrico Dagnino, Dominic Bracco and Yael Martinez. #Dysturb is also involved.

Of particular relevance to photojournalists is the panel discussion about how violent events are portrayed in the media: ‘The Shock of the Image: Does it inform?’ with Enrico Dagnino (Photographer), Bernandino Hernandez (Photographer), Jérôme Huffer (Head of Photo Department, Paris Match), Paul Lowe (Photographer & Course Director, Masters Programme in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, London College of Communication), Enric Marti (AP Chief Photographer, Latin America & Caribbean), moderated by Maral Deghati (Photo Editor & Curator) 11am Thursday 30th June.

To find our more visit WARM Foundation.

Sarajevo, 94 (C) Enrico Dagnino

(C) Dominic Bracco
Family and friends attend the funerals of three female victims of a massacre that left 13 dead and over a dozen wounded in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Most of the victims were between the ages of 14 and 20 years old and were attending a birthday party. They were herded into a corder of the house and executed by a firing squad. Armed men came looking for one young man, but when the patrons responded that he was not there they opened fire.

(C) Andrew Quilty/Agence Vu
Afghan National Army officers rest on a barren field during a clearing operation in the final days of the government forces’ counter-offensive to re-take Kunduz City from Taliban insurgents. 10 October 2015.  

(C) Yael Martinez

My daughter  after taking a shower in home in Taxco Guerrero.She is 6 years old.In 2013  three of my  brothers in-laws died. After these events I began documenting my family and tried to capture the psychological and emotional breakdown caused by the loss of a family member.

Festival: Call for Submissions
The Indian Photography Festival


The Indian Photography Festival (IPF) - Hyderabad invites photographers to submit their works for the exhibitions as part of the festival in Hyderabad, India from 29th September - 9th October 2016. 

IPF - Hyderabad, is an international photography festival showcasing a wide range of photography across all genres from portrait, landscape and photojournalism to fine-art by emerging and established photographers from India and around the globe. The 2015 edition featured 63 exhibitions by 176 photographers from 14 countries. The festival program includes Exhibitions, Panel Discussions, Artists Talks, Portfolio Reviews, and Photography Workshops & Book Launches. 

To find out more visit the website here.  

Friday Round Up - 24th June, 2016

This week a photographic tribute to those innocents who are caught up in the horror of conflict and have to flee their homes. Plus WARM Festival in Sarajevo and the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad calls for submissions for this year's festival.

Feature: What War Has Done To Me
(C) Nake Batev EPA Macedonia

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Anastasia Taylor-Lind about her work Welcome to Donetsk for a feature I am working on for New Zealand Pro Photographer magazine.

Anastasia told me that while she was in Kiev, Ukraine she began thinking about how people are portrayed in wartime.

How you lose your identity, are stripped of being who you are - a girlfriend, sister, writer, photographer.

Instead you are labelled a refugee, you become collateral damage, a victim, a product of war.

I found her words really profound and I hope as you look at these photographs you see beyond the label "refugee" to the person and imagine how their lives have been irrevocably changed by conflict, changed by an event in which they had no part, but which has rocked them to their core.

You can also watch this video on Al Jazeera in which "refugees" talk about how they feel about that word and what it means to them. 

It's time the media started using a different language, one that recognises the individual, one that remembers we are talking about human beings, one that shows respect and compassion. 

Let's move the conversation. 


(C) Alkis Konstantinidis Greece


(C) Angelos Tzortzinis AFP Lesbos

(C) Angelos Tzortzinis AFP Lesbos

(C) Borce Popovsk AP Macedonia


(C) DarkoVojinovic AP  

(C) Eddie Mulholland The Telegraph Lesbos

(C) Robert Atanasovski AFP/Getty Macedonia

(C) Santi Palacios AP Lesbos Greece

(C) Stoyan Nenov Reuters Macedonia

(C) Warren Allott The Telegraph Hungary
Festival:
WARM Festival Sarajevo
26 June - 2 July


Sarajevo, 94 (C) Enrico Dagnino
The city is besieged, water is missing, the electricity and the gas when present are as dangerous as a bomb the home made stoves regularly explode burning big and small. The attempt of the Muslim soldiers to break the siege end in massacres of soldiers on the front line. 

The WARM Foundation presents WARM Festival, a week long event dedicated to war reporting, war art and war memory.

Bringing together journalists, artists, historians, researchers and activists WARM aims to showcase a range of media that includes photojournalism.

This year there are several exhibitions with work from Andrew Quilty, Enrico Dagnino, Dominic Bracco and Yael Martinez. #Dysturb is also involved.

Of particular relevance to photojournalists is the panel discussion about how violent events are portrayed in the media: ‘The Shock of the Image: Does it inform?’ with Enrico Dagnino (Photographer), Bernandino Hernandez (Photographer), Jérôme Huffer (Head of Photo Department, Paris Match), Paul Lowe (Photographer & Course Director, Masters Programme in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, London College of Communication), Enric Marti (AP Chief Photographer, Latin America & Caribbean), moderated by Maral Deghati (Photo Editor & Curator) 11am Thursday 30th June.

To find our more visit WARM Foundation.

Sarajevo, 94 (C) Enrico Dagnino

(C) Dominic Bracco
Family and friends attend the funerals of three female victims of a massacre that left 13 dead and over a dozen wounded in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Most of the victims were between the ages of 14 and 20 years old and were attending a birthday party. They were herded into a corder of the house and executed by a firing squad. Armed men came looking for one young man, but when the patrons responded that he was not there they opened fire.

(C) Andrew Quilty/Agence Vu
Afghan National Army officers rest on a barren field during a clearing operation in the final days of the government forces’ counter-offensive to re-take Kunduz City from Taliban insurgents. 10 October 2015.  

(C) Yael Martinez

My daughter  after taking a shower in home in Taxco Guerrero.She is 6 years old.In 2013  three of my  brothers in-laws died. After these events I began documenting my family and tried to capture the psychological and emotional breakdown caused by the loss of a family member.

Festival: Call for Submissions
The Indian Photography Festival


The Indian Photography Festival (IPF) - Hyderabad invites photographers to submit their works for the exhibitions as part of the festival in Hyderabad, India from 29th September - 9th October 2016. 

IPF - Hyderabad, is an international photography festival showcasing a wide range of photography across all genres from portrait, landscape and photojournalism to fine-art by emerging and established photographers from India and around the globe. The 2015 edition featured 63 exhibitions by 176 photographers from 14 countries. The festival program includes Exhibitions, Panel Discussions, Artists Talks, Portfolio Reviews, and Photography Workshops & Book Launches. 

To find out more visit the website here.  

June 17, 2016

Friday Round Up - 17th June, 2016

This week on Friday Round Up three photo essays that talk about issues that often don't find their way into mainstream media.

And if they do, these stories aren't given the depth of coverage required for a broader audience to begin to understand what these individual stories are about and how they influence and impact humanity as a whole: Sean Gallagher's The Silent Fields; Sara Terry's Aftermath; and David Verberckt's project on Myanmar's stateless people, the Rohingya.

Photo Essays:

Sean Gallagher - The Silent Fields - Pesticide Poisoning in Punjab


(C) Sean Gallagher

Punjab is the food bowl of India, the country’s most significant agricultural area, but the high use of pesticides, fertiliser and insecticides over the past four decades has turned this region into a toxic bowl. 

Here an increasing number of babies are being born with mental and health disabilities and residents are dying from various cancers which can be attributed to the contamination of soil, water and of course food. 


(C) Sean Gallagher


(C) Sean Gallagher

(C) Sean Gallagher



Sukhbeer Kaur (19) holds a portrait of her father, Pippal Singh, who died in 2010 of cancer, aged 40. It is believed that excessive pesticide use in the region over the past 30-40 years has led to the accumulation of dangerous levels of toxins such as uranium, lead and mercury which are contributing to increased health problems including cancers, birth defects and mental disabilities in children. It's a hidden epidemic which is gripping the Punjab region in northeast India which for decades has been the country's 'bread basket'. (C) Sean Gallagher



Harmangod Singh (6) sits next to a portrait of his mother, Charnajeet Kaur, who died in 2010 of brain cancer, aged only 31.  
(C) Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is a multi-award winning photographer based in Asia for more than a decade. 

His work on environmental issues and their impact on communities is influenced by his background, he has a degree in zoology, and his desire to create work that can help to affect change. 

The recipient of numerous Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grants, Gallagher is also represented by National Geographic Creative and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 

I've featured his work here before for the simple reasons that is is incredibly important, and truly outstanding. 

You can read Sean’s full report on Punjab here


Sara Terry - Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace












(C) All images Sara Terry

The idea that “war is only half the story” is what drives the Aftermath Project, a non-profit organisation founded by photographer Sara Terry whose own work on Bosnia and Hercegovina documents the impact that war (1992-1995) had on individuals and also celebrates their efforts to rebuild their lives.

Terry objective is to show the other side of war, the stories the mainstream media rarely focuses on.

To find out more visit the Aftermath Project here.

David Verberckt - The Stateless Rohingya 



There are around one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority, living in Myanmar in the northwest of that country.

Deprived of citizenship, the Rohingya live a life of persecution and deprivation, denied the opportunity to work legally and to receive basic services such as education and healthcare.

As a consequence they live in an impoverished limbo, their children born into a stateless world where there is little hope for a brighter future. 








(C) All images David Verberckt

Verberckt is a freelance photojournalist based in Budapest.

For twenty years he worked with MSF and also the European Union in Afghanistan, Africa and Bosnia before fully committing himself in 2013 to a life of reportage photography.

This body of work is part of a series on statelessness shot in Myanmar, Bangladesh and India with the Bihari and Rohingya peoples.

To see more of David's work click here