“Visual paths of dignity”
▻http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/toward-visual-paths-of-dignity
How Africans were shown in the pictures—especially in the early images—went a long way toward marginalizing them as “the Other”
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Shadow of the condor by João Pina
João Pina’s Shadow of the Condor explores the physical and emotional remnants of Operation Condor and the legacy of South America’s military #dictatorships during the “dirty war” years.
From Moving Walls
▻http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/moving-walls/21/shadow-condor
From New York Times
▻http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/exposing-the-legacy-of-operation-condor/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0#Condor_operation #south_america #military #photography #moving_walls #documentary #chile #Argentina #Bolivia #Brazil #Paraguay #Peru #Uruguay #Pinochet
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A long walk
#Shannon_Jensen has a terrific work in Newsweek Int’l 3 September 2012 issue from South Sudan. Jensen travelled in the country June-July this year, and photographed shoes belonging to refugees who had travelled by foot across the border from Sudan’s Blue Nile state over to neighbouring South Sudan to escape Khartoum government’s military campaign against Southern liberation movement.
Newsweek has dedicated four pages for the series showing overall 18 pairs of shoes. The photos are accompanied by a short text providing background, written solely by the photographer*.
“How to represent a journey in an image?” asks Jensen in the opening sentence of the piece titled ‘A Long Walk’. I think she found a pretty good way to do just that. The idea and its execution reminded me little of Alejandro Cartagena’s Car Poolers.
▻http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/moving-walls/21/long-walk
Le site de la photographe : ▻http://www.shannon-jensen.com
#Sud_Soudan #migration #réfugiés #chaussures #photographie #photoreportage #marche #parcours_migratoire
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A Sudanese Refugee Crisis, Photographed From the Ground Up
Shannon Jensen traveled to South Sudan almost two years ago intent on drawing global attention to the country’s refugee crisis, where more than 100,000 people had walked hundreds of miles to escape Sudan’s brutal war.
By that time, there had been a few dramatic photo essays published in major magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, showing the deplorable conditions faced by refugees in South Sudan’s Nuba Mountains region.
Instead, Ms. Jensen went to the Blue Nile region, where the refugee crisis had barely been covered. She found 70,000 refugees there when she arrived and 30,000 descending upon the area the first week she was there. She spoke with her subjects as she photographed at the border and in a temporary roadside settlement near a livestock watering hole.
▻http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/a-sudanese-refugee-crisis-photographed-from-the-ground-up/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=0
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Palestinian Pleasures
Since the mid-1980s, the visual narrative of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has been predictable: photographs of stone-throwing teenagers confronting Israeli soldiers, refugee camps, mothers mourning children killed in conflicts, and long lines at border crossing points. Particularly dramatic variations on these visual tropes make the front pages and win awards.
#Tanya_Habjouqa, a Jordanian-born photographer, looks for subtler strategies to explore today’s Palestinian experience.
“I really felt like I needed to find another way to tell a story, not only just to make sense of it for myself but to make sense of it for how I’m going to present it to my children as well, since this is going to be their home too,” said Ms. Habjouqa, who lives in East Jerusalem with her husband, a Palestinian lawyer with Israeli citizenship, and their two children.
She focused on pleasure instead of suffering. She focused on humor, too, which she said Palestinians use to face the absurdities of everyday life in the Israeli-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza.
“I am in awe of the Palestinians for not only surviving but actually enjoying their lives in the face of the difficulties of their daily life and their political situation,” said Ms. Habjouqa, who was raised mostly in Texas.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/06/blogs/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-5SX8/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-5SX8-blog480.jpg 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/06/blogs/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-5AFY/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-5AFY-blog480.jpg 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/06/blogs/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-UFX8/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-UFX8-blog480.jpg 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/06/blogs/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-6ICS/20140106-lens-habjouqa-slide-6ICS-blog480.jpg ▻http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/palestinian-pleasures/?hp&_r=0
#Palestine #plaisir #fun #divertissement #Gaza #Cisjordanie #photographie #photo #photoreportage
