EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SATURDAY 3 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
Julien MAUVE - GREETINGS FROM MARS -
F RA N C E WWW . J U L I E N M AU V E . CO M This project is about space exploration but it’s also about our behaviour in front of landscapes and how we create pictures that will share our personal story with the world. In every spot Julien Mauve stopped, he imitated stereotypical tourist poses. It’s interesting to observe the way we act in front of the camera, how we include ourselves in the landscapes, how those landscapes trigger the desire to affirm our presence. With Internet available everywhere, there is no “being-far-away” anymore. So we might ask ourselves, do we travel to discover new places, or do we travel to take pictures of ourselves to prove that we exist? My work is about the journey of those people who challenge humanity, the humanity of others as their own humanity has vanished from their homeland through war.
Dorian FRANÇOIS - GATE NUMBER TWO -
F RA N C E WWW . DO R I A N F RA N CO I S . CO M In the city of Guwahati, North-East, Dorian François is in between two destinations. The Muslim area of Lakhtokia. Always the same hotel. The “Bengal Tourist”. This hotel became a gateway. It led me to the railway tracks, a hundred meters away. A place called: “Gate number two”. These pictures are about humanity and friendship.
Manoocher DEGHATI - BEING HUMAN -
I RA N WWW . M A N OOC H E R . N E T Being Human is the essence of 40 years of photojournalism worldwide. It expresses the need to stay human in the face of small and big tragedies, to retain respect in the face of daily life and big news, poignant images of humanity which show the subjects’ abilities to react to life and its circumstances.
Misha DOMOZHILOV - CAGE -
R U SS I A WWW . DO M OZ H I LOV . CO M Vitali Smolyanets is a famous Russian lion and tiger tamer who works in the Russian State Circus. In February of 2015 he heroically saved a man in a car accident. However, while dragging the man away to the side of the road, almost pulling him off of the wheels of a moving truck, he got under the wheels himself. Somehow the tamer survived, but he lost both of his legs.
Amanda MUSTARD - THAILAND ’S CHILD ANGELS -
U SA WWW . A M A N DA M U STA R D . CO M Ostensibly a Buddhist country, Thailand exhibits a great degree of religious syncretism. Superstitions and spirits are a major part of everyday life. The newest trend of lucky charms is the luk thep, or child angel. Owners of luk thep believe that caring for their doll like the real child spirit that it holds, will bring them good fortune. Local media spun with sensational luk thep news, much of which harshly criticised the owners’ mental health. The trend has tapered since, with owners abandoning the dolls entirely or turning them over to temples.
Christian POVEDA
/ Agence VU’
- LA VIDA LOCA – EL SALVADOR -
F RA N C E / S PA I N
Maras are groups of youths that spread terror throughout Central America. They can be recognised by their head to foot tattoos and are heavily involved in drug and arms dealing. Each gang has its own coded language, rituals, tattoos and hatred for the rival gang. This project shows the youths who suffer, who resent and dislike us, their experience of existence in a thankless world where they simply want to find their place. To understand their hatred for mainstream society, we need to see what is behind it. It is hatred born of exploitation, oppression and daily humiliation. This is not inter-generational conflict, but an anthropological confrontation.
Kim HAK- MY BELOVED -
CA M BO D I A
WWW . K I M H A K . CO M
“Cambodia is more than just Angkor and Khmer Rouge; it is my home country, between hate and love. I hate the dark history of Khmer Rouge and suffering we must bare from political issues. But here, where I was born, where I grew up, is a land which is rich in art and culture, beautiful ordinary people and nature. It gives me life, so it is my beloved.” Kim Hak.
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Stephanie RAVEL - IN YOUR EYES A RAINDROP -
F RA N C E WWW . ST E P H A N I E RAV E L . CA R BO N M A D E . CO M This project explores the symbioses between men and the landscape of Kerala during the monsoon, a very special time and space during which men have to adapt to nature, not the other way around. This series focuses on the subtle details that translate the effect of the monsoon on men’s psyche and on nature. As daily life modifies, waits are longer and gazes become more patient, revealing much more than usual. Vegetation grows stronger and regenerates itself.
Jongwoo PARK - ORIGINS OF ASIAN RIVERS -
SO U T H KO R EA
Over the last 20 years, Jongwoo’s Park’s most significant project has focussed on the sublime nature of the Himalayas. Cameras and gear have often broken, steps were sometimes blocked from snow. These times depicted the ‘real Himalayas’; the primitive nature and natives who lead innocent lives and embrace the tough mountains. This project is a part of the Himalaya project that traces the rivers. The flowing stream of water becomes a lifeline along the ridge, flora and fauna in the Himalaya depends on the roots of river, as the current runs around every barren spot.
David VERBERCKT - FROZEN CONFLICTS -
B E LG I U M WWW . DAV I DV E R B E RC K T . CO M Refugees: internally displaced persons living in prolonged limbo in places that lack international recognition, much needed aid and support. Some are born into this social status, labelled by a bygone conflict. NagornoKarabakh, recognised as part of Azerbaijan, is scarcely populated with abandoned towns erased by war. The population suffers from isolation and a complete lack of international recognition. Samegrelo, a region in Georgia bordering disputed territory, has absorbed large numbers of internally displaced persons. They face serious socio-economic problems and live in dire conditions. Only rare returnees have made it back to the area of Gali and face great insecurity.
Oddleiv APNESETH
/ Moment / INSTITUTE - JØLSTER - N O RWAY WWW . M O M E N TAG E N CY . CO M Jølster 2008 portrays a year in the life of one Norwegian ‘kommune’. Jølster, situated in the fjord district of west Norway, has around 3000 inhabitants, situated around lake Jølster. The idea behind this project was to build a historical document, a visual story about the way of life in Norway today. Influenced by 20th century photographers, this project portrays individuals and groups, showing both their private and public lives, looking at less conspicuous members of society. The work was completed using strict limitations. All pictures were taken in 2008.
Tomm Photographer - SPIRIT WORLD - JA PA N
WWW . TO M M P H OTO . CO M There are many festivals and different kinds of folk-art in Japan. There are small, abstract local festivals, large scale, splendid ones like the Gion Festival in Kyoto. In small festivals, there is a determination that emanates among the locals protecting its traditions. In modern society festivals may seem irrational and strange. The reason past generations of Japanese continually carried on festivals across Japan is because they believed it would restore the life and spirit when they faded from their daily lives with the festival’s mag-netic energy.
Aun RAZA - CUBA - PA K I STA N
WWW . AU N . P H OTOS H E LT E R . CO M This bittersweet series captures Havana in a state of flux as the country begins to open to foreign influence and investment. This lure of thrilling economic growth remains unreachable for most of its inhabitants. Some streets may have received cosmetic repair for President Obama’s visit but everywhere else, houses are still crumbling and life remains a daily struggle. The stage is being reset, bring-ing out the discrepancy between tired hopes of the population and a dire state of things.
Jhoane BATERNA-PATENA - THE ART OF THE SELFIE -
P H I L I P P I N ES WWW . BAT E R N A - PAT E N A . CO M Baterna-Patena has witnessed a rapidly increasing number of tourists from mainland China going to Hong Kong to shop, sightsee and to take selfies. Hundreds of buses arrive every day and thousands of visitors spill out, using their short stopover to walk around and view the nearby waterfront. Not many of them take notice of the Golden Bauhinia Square, but all of them take selfies.
Gabriella DEMCZUK - BALTIMORE SINGS THE BLUES -
U SA / C ROAT I A WWW . GA B R I E L LA D E M CZ U K . CO M On April 19, 2015, 25 year-old Freddie Gray from West Baltimore, died under police custody after suffering a spinal cord injury from his arrest. Days of protests followed leading to violent clashes with police on Pennsylvania Avenue just hours after Gray’s funeral with a long night of rioting and a staggering increase in the homicide rate that year. Not since the death of Martin Luther King Jr. has Baltimore seen such violence, forcing residents, its city council and police department to confront the issues that have long been ignored: systematic racial inequality, economic disparity, rampant drug abuse, poor education and police brutality.
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Laurent WEYL
/ Collectif Argos - PRESIDENT HOTEL - F RA N C E WWW . CO L L ECT I FA RGOS . CO M An imposing construction built for the US army in the ‘70s, the President Hotel was for years the biggest and most modern building in Saigon. Nearly 3,000 people lived in it at one time. This decaying architectural carcass will soon be destroyed to make room for modern towers and malls. Time runs layer after layer in this building. Its dilapidated walls hold signs of past lives, visually inspiring memories and elucidate moods and emotion. Here we discover a microcosm that bears witness to the last fifty years of Vietnamese history.
Nikos PILOS
/ Stern Magazine - CHAOS/YOUTH RESISTANCE - G R E EC E WWW . N I KOS P I LOS . CO M This series pictures the underground political culture in Greece. Generations from the lower and middleclasses have been raised with revolt and protest. Greece is by far the country with the biggest number of demonstrations in Europe, especially amongst youths whose movement started in the ‘30s. Today, after the end of dictatorship in Greece, despite a period of political tranquillity, five protesters have died after clashes with the police. Youth movements still stand strong, expressing themselves with student-elections, by going into the streets to demonstrate or organise university sit-ins. The crisis and the austerity measures of the last five years have brought the youth back to the streets.
Vincent BOISOT
/ Riva Press - SAPEURS - F RA N C E WWW . V I N C E N T BO I SOT . CO M The sapeur’s wardrobe is resolutely eccentric in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The elegant art of dressing known as SAPE (the Society of Ambiance-makers and Elegant People), since arriving in Kinshasa in the 1960s, has taken on its own special flavour. Every year on the 10th of February, the madness reaches fever pitch. On this self-proclaimed “international day of the SAPE”, hun-dreds of sapeurs crowd into the small Kinshasa cemetery that houses the grave of their “mentor”, the singer Stervos Niarcos.
Sara MUNARI - BE THE BEE BODY BE BOOM -
I TA LY WWW . SA RA M U N A R I . I T For this project Sara Munari was inspired both by the fairy tales of Eastern Europe folklore and their urban legends. Each image is an independent story that endeavours to express rituals, lies, secrets and melancholy. In many of the Eastern European countries she has visited, she has not found a very familiar atmosphere; in all these places she has felt a strong contrast between past and present.
Muyi XIAO - MARRIED YOUNG -
CHINA WWW . M U Y I X I AO . CO M In a certain part of Yunnan province, in China’s southwest, marriage of boys and girls as young as 13 years old is a common phe-nomenon, practiced without taboo despite the nation’s rule requiring women to be 20 and men to be 22 before they marry. The reasons are complex, as economic pressures, shifting social attitudes and changing population dynamics revive a practice that China’s Communist leaders had hoped to stamp out.
Jonathan FONTAINE / SIPA PRESS - EL NIÑO, THE BURDEN OF WOMEN -
FRANCE WWW . JONATHANFONTAINE . FR
Ethiopia currently faces its worst drought and humanitarian crisis in 50 years. For the second consecutive year, rains have failed to materialise, eastern Ethiopia being the worst affected. During this massive drought, the women endure the hard task of finding water and food for their families. They walk 3 to 12 hours a day under the burning sun to find water, filling plastic barrels and carrying them back. Because of this El Nino phenomenon, the impact on the harvest affects over ten million people in need of food aid, including almost 6 million children.
Christina CZYBIK - CEPHAS BANSAH - THE KING -
G E R M A N Y WWW . CHR ISTINACZYBIK . PHOTOSHE LTE R . COM
King Cephas Kosi Bansah’s kingdom is in the Gbi region in Eastern Ghana, his people are around 300,000 members of the Ewe. In his position as “Superior and Spiritual Chief of Ewe People”, there are a further two million people in Togo for whom he feels responsi-ble. He rules his people from Ludwigshafen, Germany, via fax, email and Skype. During the day he works in his car shop.
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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SUNDAY 4 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
Vasantha YOGANANTHAN - EARLY TIMES -
INDIA WWW . VASA N T H A . F R “I’ve seen and read and heard this story a hundred – no, maybe even a thousand – times, in newspapers, in the cinema, in advertisements, in books. There’s only one story worth telling in Ayodhya – the story of Ram, Sita and Ravana. It’s the greatest tale ever told, and better still, it’s true. Real. It has heroism, beauty, love, ugliness, war, blood and loss – everything we need (…) It has crossed over the boundaries of the merely real, and been spun into fantasy. It is a fairy tale now. It is the monolith on which our state and our beliefs are built. But is that what really happened?”
Chris LESKOVSEK - THERE’S NO ONE HERE -
N E W Z EA LA N D / C H I L E
WWW . C H R I S L ES KOVS E K . T U M B L R . CO M
There’s No One Here is a collaboration between the photographer Chris Leskovsek and the pianist Marcos Meza. This multimedia series represents an introspective journey, an adventure made by artists travelling the world. Despite having parallel ways they have given birth to a new concept, a reality that is only perceptible when you are moving onto an unknown place. This series was conceived by New Zealand based Chilean photographer and designer, Chris Leskovsek, during a prolonged period of time spent investigating and travelling throughout New Zealand searching for belonging.
Daniele VOLPE - GUATEMALA - IXIL GENOCIDE -
I TA LY
WWW . DA N I E L E VO L P E . CO M
In the early ‘80s, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan Civil War. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. Many survivors are still searching for the remains of their deceased relatives from the Civil War. Exhumations make up an important part of the process of clarification and evidence gathering of Guatemalan justice. The forensic inquiry tries to reconcile the grief of survivors, who can then give a dignified burial to their loved ones.
Carolina ARANTES - FIRST GENERATION -
B RAZ I L WWW . CA RO L I N AA RA N T ES . CO M First Generation is an ongoing project about the first generation of Afro-French women in France. The years between 1975 and 1980 marked the beginning of African immigration into France, resulting in the first Afro-French generation being born in France. This project aims to speak about this developing national identity through the lives of these women, and tries to understand how they relate to the incipient reference of their mixed origins while living in a culture that is deeply anchored in historical tradition.
Francesco MERLINI / Prospekt agency - LE TCHAD DENSE - I TA LY WWW . F RA N C ESCO M E R L I N I . CO M Chad is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Since 1996 power has been in the hands of President Déby and Chad remains plagued by political violence. The president has prohibited pictures to be taken throughout the country, exploiting the excuse of national security. While the constitution defends liberty of expression, the government has regularly restricted this right. Soldiers are everywhere. Chad’s greatest ally is France; Déby relies on the French to help repel the rebels, and France gives support for fear of a complete collapse of regional stability. Christian LUTZ
/ Agence VU’ - INSERT COINS - LAS VEGAS - SW I T Z E R LA N D WWW . C H R I ST I A N LU T Z . O RG “Insert Coins is a blues song, a death rattle”. A kind of evidence pushed Christian Lutz towards Las Vegas. When he went there for the first time, the economic crisis was at its height; it had been explained in great depth that it was heading toward Europe from the United States, whose economic system appears to remain a model for Europe. He felt the need to confront something that stood for creating illusion, the very symbol of entertainment made in the USA. To go and see what lies behind the lights of a negative system of values.
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Cedric GERBEHAYE
/ Agence VU’ -
THE MOUNTAIN THAT EATS MEN -
B E LG I U M
The mining deposits of Cerro Rico in Potosi, Bolivia, are amongst the most important and oldest working mines in South America. They are also some of the most dangerous in the world for the miners. They have become a symbol of controversy across the country, putting at odds the demands of global production and a population whose lifestyle is one of extreme suffering, who do not see the profits from the economic impact on their country. Over five months, Cédric Gerbehaye has depicted the daily life of these miners who live in the heart of the mountain.
Furkan TEMIR
/ VII Mentor Program - WHAT MAKES A WAR - T U R K E Y WWW . F U R KA N T E M I R . CO M The Turkish state launched an operation with tanks, armoured cars and 10 thousand military in towns across mainly Kurdish region in December 2015 in order to lift barricades and fill ditches created by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and The Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) with the motivation of autonomy across Kurdish region. The operation is still continuing; 7000 people have lost their lives and more than 350,000 people are displaced. Most of the houses are empty due to the curfew in the cities where the operation continues. In following months the Turkish government is planning to extend the operation.
Noriko HAYASHI
/ Panos Pictures - YAZIDI - ESCAPING FROM ISIS - JA PA N WWW . N O R I KO H AYAS H I . CO M The Yazidis are an ethno-religious group whose largest communities lived in northern Iraq until recently. There are differing opinions about their origin. Some evidence suggests that Yazidism arose on the foundation of ancient Indo-Iranian beliefs. However, like any other religion, Yazidism developed and transformed. Yazidis passed on their religion, history, cosmological ideals and legends from one generation to another orally. Since the emergence of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and neighbouring Syria in August 2014, the group has been increasingly targeted by Islamist forces who have killed thousands and enslaved thousands more women. Thousands of Yazidis are seeking asylum and hoping to start a new life.
Jost FRANKO / Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - COTTON BLACK, COTTON BLUE - SLOVENIA
WWW . JOSTFRANKO . COM A red dress, printed with tiny white and yellow flowers. Maybe the cotton was grown in Burkina Faso: without ploughs, without tractor sprinklers, without combines and subsidies, with bad seeds. Maybe the fabric was woven in large, dark and noisy halls where tedious work may have been done by children because their hands are tiny and skilful. Maybe it was coloured by men working where the air - thick and full of poisonous gasses - glues itself to their skin. Maybe it was made by a seamstress and maybe by a guy whose possessions are stacked in a small backpack that’s hanging on a wall above his work station. Which is also his bedroom.
Nicola LO CALZO
/ L’Agence à Par is - REGLA - I TA LY WWW . N I CO LA LOCA LZO . CO M Beyond the contradictions and discontinuities unique to each of these platforms of expression, the REGLA project examines existing links between areas of self-expression in contemporary Cuba and the resistance and survival strategies employed by freed and enslaved Africans during the colonial era. It is the first time such a photographic angle has been explored. REGLA also seeks to highlight a historical perspective on the fundamental role played by Afro-descendants in the establishment of these marginal expressions of freedom, which continue to impact significantly on the definition of the contemporary Cuban society.
Marcin ZABOROWSKI PO LA N D
/ National Geographic Polska -
ROHINGYAS. THE UNREGISTERED. -
WWW . M A RC I N ZA BO ROWS K I . CO M
The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim minority, living in north-western Myanmar. Having been persecuted for decades by the Buddhist majority, they escape to Bangladesh. It is estimated that as a result of ethnic cleansing 300,000 to 500,00 of them have escaped to Bangladesh over the last decades. Scarcely 30,000 refugees found asylum in official camps, supported in basic ways by the government’s permission by the UNHCR, and various NGOs. The remaining thousands of people stay in makeshift camps, not possessing the status of refugees and not being entitled to field rations, right to work and to educate. They are Unregistered.
Yan CONG - THE PRICE OF HAPPINESS -
CHINA WWW . YA N - CO N G . CO M The preference for sons and the one-child policy have dramatically skewed the sex ratio in China, creating a shortage of women. In recent years, Cambodian women are seen as ideal brides for single Chinese men longing to have a family. This story follows Cambodian woman Buntha and documents her life in China since October 2014 when decided to leave her home in rural Cambodia in 2013 for China and marry a Chinese man. Zou is 15 years her senior, and they have two children. Buntha is constantly torn between staying in China and going back home: she cannot help but regret the decision of coming to China in the first place.
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Narciso CONTRERAS - YEMEN, THE FORGOTTEN WAR WWW . N A RC I SOCO N T R E RAS . P H OTOS H E LT E R . CO M After years of internal political instability, Yemen was dragged into civil war when the Ansar Allah rebellion took over the government, triggering an international intervention to a domestic conflict. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered the war against the Houthi insurgency engulfing the neighbouring country in the bloodiest conflict in its recent history. Declared one of the poorest nations in the world, Yemen is struggling to survive the last stage of its tragedy: while international humanitarian organisations have declared a state of emergency, Yemen is facing one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes. With virtually no media coverage, Yemen’s war is not only a forgotten war, but it is also an unknown war. M E X I CO
Gérald ASSOULINE - LET ME DREAM, LIGHT IS SO DELICATE -
F RA N C E
WWW . G E RA L DASSO U L I N E . F R
Tight rope walker, I slide between the light rays. Dancers are in each other’s arms under the moon eclipse. Angel, I caress your lips. The child laughs and cries. The branch of the tree rustles. Everywhere, the tumult of this destructive world. And me, I see this round breast, attentive to the petals of roses. Let me dream…light is so delicate.
Tomas CHADIM - VIOLATED LANDSCAPE -
CZ EC H R E P U B L I C WWW . TO M ASC H A D I M . CO M They are everywhere. They are sticking out all over the Czech landscape. Antennas, transmission towers, water reservoirs, gas storage tanks, floodlights, billboards, concrete plants, cooling towers, cranes and other technological structures. Take a walk through the countryside. It’s like you almost can’t find a single place unoccupied by at least one of these structures. We are by nature aggressive beings, extensively violating the landscape.
Moises SAMAN
/ Magnum Photos
- BEHIND THE BARRICADES OF TURKEY’S HIDDEN WAR -
S PA I N / U SA
WWW . M AG N U M P H OTOS . CO M A simmering conflict with the Kurds threatens to consume an American ally and inflame an already unstable region.
Klaus PICHLER
/ Anzenberger - GOLDEN DAYS BEFORE THEY END - AU ST R I A WWW . K P I C . AT In these little inns, bars, ’dens’ in Vienna, Austria, time seems to have stopped. If you pass by, you hear loud laughter through the half open door – but only few walk in. Too often these places appear in the media with reports of a fight or stabbing. For many, these are the only places to find somebody to talk to. The whole bar takes part in one conversation. They are substitute families. Once you’ve joined the family, you stick together and you drink together – all day, every day.
Kemal JUFRI
/ Panos Pictures - PERILOUS PASSAGE - I N DO N ES I A In 2015, Europe faced its largest migration crisis since World War II. The vast majority of migrants came from war-torn Syria and Iraq. Others fled their countries to escape religious persecution and possible death. Many of them took their chances aboard unseaworthy boats in their desperate attempt to reach Europe by sea, hoping for a better life. The journey is long, plagued with uncertainty. Thousands have died. According to the International Organisation for Migration, more than one million migrants flowed into Europe last year, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx.
Ronald PATRICK - KHARNAK NOMADS -
CHILE WWW . RO N A L D PAT R I C K . CO M In Ladakh, India, nearly 5,000m above sea level, lives a Buddhist Kharnak community of 16 nomadic families. They work closely together to look after their livestock; animals and families rely on each other to survive. Life is hard in these high plains and nomadic tradition is starting to disappear; it is probably the last generation of nomads in this area. The time will come when the villages are abandoned forever, along with their traditions.
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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION MONDAY 5 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
THE IMPACT PROJECT Launched in 2014, The Impact Project is a themed showcase in our programme that aims to highlight photography projects about individuals, groups, or small organisations that are making a positive impact on social or environmental issues.
*** Balarka BRAHMA - FORWARD PASS -
INDIA WWW . BA LA R KA B RA H M A . CO M In 2003, a group called the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee started a residential home for kids from various brothel colonies. Most of these children don’t get any education, many are driven into the sex trade or are trapped in drug rackets. Football was identified as a means to integrate these children back into society. Professional coaches help train these children; the results have been fantastic. The team has become champion of the Indian Football Association’s nursery league and will field a team in the senior division next season. Two boys from the academy were selected by Manchester United to practice with its junior team in Manchester last year.
Alice SASSU - KOLKATA GIRLS: READY FOR BOXING -
I TA LY
WWW . A L I C ESASSU . CO M
Simmi, Karamjit, Ajmira and Kashmira train as boxers at the Kidderpore School of Physical Culture, a club in a Muslim ghetto of Calcutta. The coaches of the KSOPC Boxing Club, Merajuddin Ahmed, popularly known as “Cheena Bhai” and his brother Nasim try to help the youth in their neighbourhood without any kind of sponsorship. The main problem here is poverty: many families can’t even afford the bus fare or the good diet necessary for a boxer. Girls share boxing gloves at the club and lament the fact that there is no sponsorship for them. What these girls do possess is an undeniable fighting spirit.
Alejandro DURÁN - WASHED UP -
M E X I CO
WWW . A L EJA N D RO D U RA N . CO M
This environmental installation and photography project transforms the international debris washing up on Mexico’s Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet disquieting works. Durán has identified plastic waste from fifty-three nations and territories on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally protected reserve and an UNESCO World Heritage site. He uses this debris to create colour-based, site-specific sculptures that conflate the hand of man and nature. More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament.
Putu SAYOGA
/ Arka Project - INDONESIA’S DON QUIXOTE OF LITERACY - INDONESIA WWW . PUTUSAYOGA . NET 43 year old Ridwan Sururi is a horse carer living in Serang Village, Indonesia. He decided to start a mobile library called Kudapustaka - meaning “horse library” - with the donated books from his fellow horse enthusiast, Nirwan Arsuka and other donors. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday he visits nearby schools and villages to offer books for children and villagers. According to data from UNESCO, adult literacy in Indonesia has dropped from 15.4m in 2004 to 2.7m in 2011. In Ridwan’s area, there still remains approximately 977,000 illiterates. With books coming at expensive prices and libraries being scarce, Ridwan’s efforts are hugely important in his local area.
Rubén SALGADO ESCUDERO - SOLAR PORTRAITS -
S PA I N WWW . R U B E N SA LGA DO . CO M This long term project addresses the important issue of a lack of access to electricity. In Myanmar, around 3,000 people are connected to any power grid; this is only 27% of the population. These portraits depict the lives of inhabitants in remote areas of Myanmar and Subsaharan Africa who, for the first time, have access to electricity through the power of solar energy. Each subject was asked how having electricity has affected their life. The portraits were set up within their environment, according to what they expressed.
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David VERBERCKT - REHABILITATION -
B E LG I U M WWW . DAV I DV E R B E RC K T . CO M Founded in 1979, the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) is a unique organisation in Bangladesh. It focuses on a holistic approach to rehabilitation to ensure the inclusion of disabled people into common society. It recognising that all aspects of the rehabilitation process are vital for its success. It’s mission is to promote an environment where all girls and boys, women and men with disabilities have equal access to health, rehabilitation, education, employment, the physical environment and information.
Vincent BOISOT
/ Riva Press - MWIMBA TEX AS - F RA N C E WWW . V I N C E N T BO I SOT . CO M In a country where albinos’ white skin makes them the target of repeated prejudice, Mwimba Texas has fought to make his dream come true and become a professional wrestling champion. From wrestling in the ring to defending the rights of the albino community, his life is a story of hope, courage and Congolese resourcefulness.
Andri TAMBUNAN - I AM POSITIF -
U SA / I N DO N ES I A WWW . A N D R I TA M B U N A N . CO M I Am Positif is an initiative to help end stigma and discrimination related to HIV/AIDS in Tanah Papua, Indonesia. Many improvements have been made in the region but the majority of the public in Tanah Papua still perceives HIV/AIDS to mean suffering, dishonour, and death. People often neglect taking preventive measures and many already diagnosed with HIV avoid seeking lifesaving treatments. Fear of abuse, persecution and ostracism from family members and the community have made secrecy and denial the primary concern over seeking care. I Am Positif utilises portraiture, in-depth interviews, and video to profile 7 incredible individuals who are living healthy and productively with HIV.
Alessandro RAMPAZZO
/ Collettivo Fotosocial - INTO THE WOODS - ITALY WWW . ALESSANDRORAMPAZZO . COM Ihab and Yousef arrived in Finland in September 2015. For a few months they lived in Turku in an asylum seeker facility near the city. In January 2016 they moved in with Outi, a Finnish woman who offered to host them, while they waited for their request of asylum to be answered. Outi is the local coordinator of the home accommodation movement, a self organised group of people opening the doors of their homes to asylum seekers, in order to help asylum seekers integrate into Finnish society better and more efficiently.
ECO TEC MEXICO - RECYCLING PET BOTTLES -
S E N EGA L / U GA N DA / N I G E R I A Andreas Froese is the inventor of the technique ECOTEC: the recycling of PET bottles, along with debris and earth, to become raw material for construction. PET bottles are used as bricks: they are filled with dirt and other materials and are linked to form a structure. This system is applied in different environments and areas, such as: ecotourism, recreational uses, common areas, new housing construction or rehabilitation and water reservoirs and has been used on projects in Honduras, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Uganda and Germany.
Alice SASSSU - BEING KOTHI -
I TA LY WWW . A L I C ESASSU . CO M Raina and her friends live in Calcutta; they identify as Kothis. A Kothi is identified as a male at birth, but identifies with female concepts and ranges from feminine males to transgender women. Most Kothis seek to live a normal life within Indian society, but for many it is hard. Finding a job is difficult; many are marginalised and lack occupational options besides sex work. Raina was a sex worker and used to live in the Hijras community in Delhi. When Raina lost her parents, she decided to start a new life as a human rights activist. Rania often hosts friends at her house because in their own family’s homes they cannot dress up as women, wear makeup, be themselves.
Gael TURINE / Agence VU’ - CHANEE , THE GIBBON WHISPERER - B E LG I U M WWW . GA E LT U R I N E . CO M
Aurélien Brulé is a 36 year old Frenchman who founded the Kalaweit Association, is dedicated to the protection of Indonesian gibbons. He decided to leave his normal life behind and settle down in the Bornean jungle. This work is an attempt to photograph the amazing commitment made my Brule, as he fights a double battle of protecting the gibbons and their habitat.
MAGNUM FOUNDATION - WHAT WORKS -
WWW . M AG N U M FO U N DAT I O N . O RG / W H AT - WO R KS The Magnum Foundation What Works project brings together nine photographers from Iran, Ukraine, Slovenia, Syria, India, Ecuador, China, and the Philippines to explore tolerance through rigorous and creative visual narratives. Collectively, the projects address bridge-building amongst groups that might otherwise be in conflict. What Works is a collective project created by members of Magnum Foundation’s network of regional photographers who have received training through their Photography and Human Rights Program.
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THE SKIN OF PALESTINE by Santiago ARCOS
For Latin American soccer fans, the uniform of a beloved team is like a second skin. Palestine’s skin is found more than 8,000 miles from home—in Chile. Club Deportivo Palestino was founded in 1920 by Palestinian Christian refugees in Santiago. The soccer team won the 1955 and 1978 league titles and has been called the “second national team” by President Mahmoud Abbas. Around 400,000 people of Palestinian descent reside in Chile today, making it the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world.
KASHMIRIYAT by Poulomi BASU
In 1998, during the height of militancy in Kashmir, India, 23 Hindu Pandits were executed by Muslim gunmen disguised as soldiers. Just a few miles from the site of the killing is a quiet temple, where the annual festival of Kheer Bhawani brings together Muslims and Hindus in the spirit of tolerance and brotherhood. Though religious violence has driven much of the Pandit community out of Kashmir, more than 20,000 Pandits make pilgrimage to the temple each year for Kheer Bhawani and are openly welcomed by the local Muslim community.
CLASSROOMS OF HOPE by Xyza BACANI CRUZ
Mindanao in the Philippines is wrought with violence between the Moro National Liberation Front, Al Qaedainfluenced Abu Sayaf and the government’s Christian military. Klasrum ng Pag-Asa (Classroom of Hope) provides a safe space at the center of a decades-long conflict. Christian and Muslim children study together at the school, surrounded by colorful murals depicting peace in one of the most war-torn provinces in the country.
JESUS IN IRAN by Abbas HAJIMOHAMMADI
Armenian Christians have lived peacefully in Iran for more than 400 years and represent the largest nonMuslim community in the country. While Armenians have faced some conflict with Iranian authorities over education, language and other rights, Christianity is officially recognized by the Iranian government and Armenians are free to practice their religious ceremonies alongside their Muslim neighbors.
BACK HOME by Eman HELAL
On August 14, 2013, supporters of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi raided 65 churches across Egypt. In Delga, a small village south of Cairo, the militia set fire to Christian houses, forcing approximately 150 families to flee and settle in other cities. Three months later, the Egyptian army regained control over the towns that were attacked. Christian survivors of the sectarian violence returned to Delga, where they now live among the majority Muslim community.
UYGHUR AND HAN KIDS IN FOOTBALL SCHOOL by Yuyang LIU
Uyghur separatist forces have led violent protests regularly in China since 2009, breeding distrust between various Chinese ethnic groups and the Uyghur Muslim minority. R&F Soccer School in Guangzhou, the southeast coastal region of China, offers a select number of full-tuition scholarships to Uyghur children between 6 and 13 years old, who travel more than 5,000 kilometers from their home province to live, play and build relationships with young Han Chinese athletes.
SOLIDARITY, NOT CHARITY by Manca JUVAN
More than 400,000 migrants crossed over the border into Slovenia between fall 2015 and spring 2016. Most were fleeing oppressive regimes in Syria and Afghanistan. This project examines the individual Slovenian volunteers who welcomed these refugees into the country, providing food, shelter, and other forms of assistance. What does it mean to be driven by empathy rather than charity, deeply invested in the fates of strangers?
HOMELAND IN EXILE by Anastasia VLASOVA
After the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, Crimean Tatars (a Turkic group of Sunni Muslims) were forced to leave their homes and relocate to the predominantly Christian Western Ukraine. The mayor of Lviv was the first to invite the Tatars to his city; local families hosted refugees and provided the Crimeans with food and clothing. Despite pervasive prejudice throughout the country, the Tatars have been able to build community and integrate peacefully.
TALK TO A MUSLIM by Muyi XIAO
Every week, one Massachusetts couple parks themselves in front of the Cambridge Public Library with free coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts and a large sign that prompts: “Ask a Muslim.” Mona Haydar is a Syrian American Muslim from Michigan, and her husband Sebastian is a convert to Islam. In an effort to combat fear and prejudice toward Muslims in America, Mona and Sebastian invite passersby to ask questions about Islam and engage in constructive dialogue 3
EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION TUESDAY 6 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
Marylise VIGNEAU
/ Anzenberger -
BUCHAREST DECONSTRUCTED -
F RA N C E WWW . M A RY L I S E V I G N EAU . CO M
Bucharest has a fluidity both spatial and temporal, floating between an unprocessed past and an uncertain future on the fringes of Europe. 26 years after the violent fall of Ceaușescu, deconstruction is manifest but the outcome remains volatile. A process of simultaneous modernisation and decay is taking place. It is not easy to discard decades of the cruellest dictatorship. Its traces are still ubiquitous. These images are on the borderline between chronicle and fiction. This series is about time, about inevitable endings, about what is fading — but also what is yet to fade. It is about shadows that trace invisible, blurred, and oblique lines and borders.
Eduardo GARCÍA - HOME -
C U BA WWW . E D UA R DOGA RC I A P H OTOS . CO M Reynaldo Loti Perez, has lived in the Campoamor Theatre for over 20 years. In the late 80s he lost his home when his godfather died, leaving him to look for work. He came to the theatre in 1992 where not only did he find a job as a parking lot attendant, but also somewhere to live. Reynaldo still lives quietly in the theatre, despite the bad condition of the building, and he is afraid of losing the place he calls home.
Sandra HOYN - THE LONGINGS OF THE OTHERS -
GE R MANY WWW . SA N D RA H OY N . D E Bangladesh is one of the few Muslim countries where prostitution is legal. The Kandapara brothel is the oldest and one of the largest in the country: it has existed for 200 years. More than 700 sex workers live there with their children, their madams. Their customers are policemen, politicians, factory workers, groups of teenage boys. Some are looking for sex, some also love and the company of a woman. The women are born in the brothel, are sold by family members or have fled their husbands. They must officially be 18 years old, but most are underage. These women are socially stigmatised outside their “homes” but choose to stay to support their families.
Phil HATCHER-MOORE - BURUNDI: BETRAYAL -
E N G LA N D WWW . P H I L M OO R E . I N FO Burundi, a small, land-locked country in Central Africa, slid into crisis last year when president Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid for a controversial third-term in office, sparking waves of protests. The government responded by labelling demonstrators as “criminals” and “terrorists”; police killed dozens of civilians in the street and roundedup scores more, actions that the international community and human-rights groups have widely condemned. Nkurunziza won the election and grenade attacks have become an almost daily occurrence. Many people have “disappeared”. Once bustling neighbourhoods are now deserted. Thousands have fled the country.
Rip HOPKINS
/ Agence VU’ - BELGIAN BLUE BLOOD - E N G LA N D WWW . R I P H O P K I N S . CO M Through a series of portraits, Rip Hopkins delivers a surprising picture of Belgium’s contemporary aristocracy. Dukes, Countesses, princes and baronesses pose in front of his camera and present us with the list of their titles and ancestors. Around 25,000 people are part of Belgian nobility, about 0.2 % of the country’s population. Each year, 20 new names are added to the list, ennobled by the King. 1, 300 families can claim to be part of the country’s nobility today. It is a country of aristocracy where nobility is strictly defined by the Constitution, and they do not receive privileges.
Marina SERSALE - VENICE -
I TA LY WWW . I N STAG RA M . CO M / EAU D I TA L I E In January 2016, Marina Sersale went back to Venice for the first time in 30 years. She spent three days wandering around a nearly empty Venice, shrouded in fog and only at times warmed by a pale sun; very few tourists and only the occasional inhabitant going about their daily chores. Somehow, Venice was more herself in the emptiness and the silence, and this is what Sersale saw.
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Pascal MEUNIER / COSMOS - JAPAN, THE LAND OF THE SETTING SUN - F RA N C E WWW . PASCA L M E U N I E R . CO M
In Japan, over 65s represent 27% of the current population. Japan is going through an unprecedented shift, facing major social and economic challenges. Japanese society is being reinvented; therapeutic robots are dedicated to the elderly and senior job opportunities are created to compensate for the lack of labour force; inventive and innovative marketing and business are set up and community houses are established to recreate social ties. The objective is to put an end to discrimination and drastically change the way the elderly are perceived, too often considered as a burden on society, in order to face society’s major transformations.
Stephen SHAMES - THE BLACK PANTHERS -
U SA WWW . ST E P H E N S H A M ES . CO M 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s founding by two college students, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1966, a group emblematic of the Black Power movement that helped shape the tumultuous years of the late 1960s and early 1970s, leading to the election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president. They remain cult heroes today, nearly 50 years after their founding. On the other hand, progress is not apparent in jobs, housing, the justice system. Black male youth are still at-risk. Efforts to feed children or give everyone access to good quality medical care, are under attack.
ANDREA AND MAGDA - THE PALESTINIAN DREAM -
FRANCE / ITALY WWW . ANDREA - MAGDA . PHOTOSHELTER . COM MIRAGE OF A STATE AND GLOBALIZATION UNDER OCCUPATION For several decades, the representation of Palestinians has been shaped around conflict, with images of refugee camps, intifadas and Israeli operations in Gaza. Even though the stories behind these images are real, they have progressively produced a fixed representation of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian Dream project reveals a different vision, showing a new aspect of the country’s reality: the emergence of liberalism influenced by the international community is transforming the society and economy. However, Palestine remains one of the most aid-dependant countries in the world. The Palestinian Dream interrogates the mirage of a model in the particular context of Palestine.
Sébastien VAN MALLEGHEM - DEPOSITO TEMPORAL -
B E LG I U M WWW . S E BAST I E N VA N M A L L EG H E M . E U In the bad neighbourhoods of Colonia Doctores, a few blocks away from the General Hospital of Mexico City, funeral florists and coffin merchants mingle with the dealers and used car dealerships. Each week, from the nearby hospitals, hundreds of bodies are conveyed to the workshops of the embalmers, these “aestheticians of death” are charged to erase the stigma of death as much as possible. As a derisory attempt: an impossible syncretism between the profane and the sacred, ancestral rituals and modernity, health concerns and inadequate resources.
Vlad SOKHIN
/ COSMOS - THE TWO FACES OF THE THUNDER DRAGON - R USSIA WWW . VLADSOKH I N . COM In the age of universal mobile phone connectivity, Facebook, Twitter and Lonely Planet guides there are still a few countries which circumscribe independent tourism by way of strict laws and visa requirements. In the mountain kingdom of Bhutan, ‘The Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon’, a country of less than 800,000 people and which was largely isolated from the outside world until the end of the 20th century, the authorities insist that chaperoning of tourists promotes and maintains the peoples’ well being.
LUMIÈRE BROTHERS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY - SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 1960S-1970S WWW . LU M I E R E . R U Until the late 1950s, Soviet photography was dominated by an orchestrated style that communicated communist ideals. Relatively liberal reforms, launched by Nikita Khruschev, spurred the renewal of the medium. Photojournalists turned to documentary practices. Photo-clubs sprang up all over the USSR drawing together local amateurs and propagating artistic approaches to photography. Both reporters and amateurs sought new tools – unconventional standpoints, rhythmical patterns, and sharp contrasts – to convey the feeling of freedom that was in the air during this time. The photographers also changed their subjects, switching from official ceremonies to private life of common people. R U SS I A
Taro KARIBE
/ GETTY IMAGES - SAORI - JA PA N WWW . TA RO KA R I B E . CO M 61 year old Senji Nakajima lives with his life-size ‘love doll’ Saori in his apartment in Tokyo, Japan. Nakajima, married with two children, lives away from home for work and first started his life with Saori six years ago. He used to imagine that the doll was his girlfriend, used only for sexual purposes. But then he realised that Saori had an original personality. “She never betrays, she’s not just after money. I’m tired of modern rational humans. They are heartless,” Nakajima says. “For me, she is more than a doll.”
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Arthur TRESS - CLASSIC IMAGES -
U SA WWW . A RT H U RT R ESS . CO M In the late 1960s, Arthur Tress was inspired to do a series based upon children’s dreams that combined his interests in ritual ceremony, Jungian archetypes, and social allegory. When it comes to vivid and original nightmares, kids can out dream the rest of us. Their imagination runs rampant – during the day and at night – with little filter to differentiate between reality and fiction. These Classic Images from Arthur Tress drive that point home. He asked children in the late 60s and early 70s to describe their fantasies and nightmares. Then he brought them to life in these particularly unnerving staged images.
Viviane DALLES - TEENAGE MOTHERHOOD -
F RA N C E WWW . V I V I A N E DA L L ES . CO M In 2014, there were five thousand juvenile mothers in France. They dropped out of school to build a new life, caught between the turmoil of their teenage years and the happiness of motherhood. For these mothers, a baby can offer a life, a future. Some are single parents, others are with the father. The young mother is legally entitled to keep the child, even if the father or her family do not wish her to. The attitude of outside onlookers is often one of disapproval.
Raffaele PETRALLA I TA LY
/ Prospekt Agency -
MARI PEOPLE, A PAGAN BEAUTY -
WWW . RA F FA E L E P E T RA L LA P H OTOG RA P H E R . CO M
There are about 600,000 people with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area around Joshkar-ola in the Republic of Mariel, Russia. They are called Mari and are the last pagans of the West. They live in symbiotic relationship with nature, celebrated as the basis of their existence; nature exerts a magical religiosity on people; the cyclical nature of the land merges with the ancient pagan practices. Religious subjugation was never fully accepted by the Mari. During the Cold War many prominent personalities of the Red Army, fascinated by their magical power, turned in secret to the Mari spiritual guidance looking for answers on the possible outcomes of their military strategies.
Mark PETERSON - POLITICAL THEATRE -
U SA WWW . M A R K P E T E RSO N P I X S . CO M Over the past two years Mark Peterson has photographed American presidential candidates as they lead rallies, meet with voters and plead for votes. He has followed the political spin as it approaches the November 2016 election. Donald Trump’s entrance into the race is true political theatre. Peterson pulls back the curtain on such performances to show these politicians as they really are. Although they are in plain sight, they hide behind words and carefully arranged imagery to project their vision of America. Peterson cuts through such staging and reveals the cold, naked ambition for power.
ANDREA AND MAGDA - SINAI PARK -
F RA N C E / I TA LY WWW . A N D R EA - M AG DA . P H OTOS H E LT E R . CO M Egypt has bet largely on tourism, and for Sinai it makes up nearly all of its economy. But the entire coast, from Taba to Sharm el Sheikh, is covered with carcasses of empty hotels, left abandoned or never completed. This series reveals what the pipe dream of the tourism industry has left in Sinai: the architecture, artificial and naïve, reveals the progressive disconnection with cultural local reality. The facilities are conforming to global standards in order to satisfy the client’s expectations. Security requirements led to extreme closure of land. Sinai has become a “non place”.
Pablo Ernesto PIOVANO - THE HUMAN COST OF AGROCHEMICALS - ARGENTINA
WWW . PABLOPIOVANO . COM The first survey of areas affected by glyphosate spraying in Argentina revealed that 13.4 million people - one third of the country’s population - have been affected. In 2012, 370 million litters (98 US million gallons) of agrotoxins were used over 21 million hectares, which amounts to 60 percent of the country’s cultivated land area. This means that in a decade, cancer cases in children have increased threefold and malformations in new-born babies went up 400 percent. So far, in spite of the weight of the formal complaints, there has not been any official systematised information.
Silke GONDOLF - BERLIN - YES WE CAN! -
G E R M A N Y WWW . S I L K EGO N DO L F . D E Germany in the news: Refugee Crisis! Besides all the bad news published: In Berlin the majority of people welcomes refugees. Berlin streets are promenades of the world. Every third person passing you on the street, has a migration background. “Berliners” are the ones who live here – regardless of their roots. Politics and propaganda are just one side of the story. We will all profit from coming and being together – not just in my country.
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C H IL DREN 'S DAY S L I DES H O W PROJEC T I O N WEDNESDAY 7 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
Adam DEAN
/ Panos Pictures for TIME Magazine - PANDA PAMPERING - E N G LA N D WWW . A DA M D EA N . N E T The panda is much more than an animal associated with China. It has also been a vital diplomatic tool for the Communist government ever since Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing in 1972. Today, there are 51 pandas in a dozen countries around the world which have been lent to foreign zoos. Since 1970 the population of wild pandas has nearly doubled. Yet it is only in captivity that they are currently assured long-term survival.
Alain LABOILE - THE FAMILY -
F RA N C E WWW . LA BO I L E . CO M Sculptor, photographer, and father of six, Alain Laboile started a family album in 2007. Through his photography he celebrates and documents his family life: a life on the edge of the world, where the timelessness and universality of childhood meet. Everyday he creates a family album that constitutes a legacy that he will pass on to his children. His work reflects their way of life, revolving around their childhood. His photographs will be the testimony of that.
Made NAGI - KITE FESTIVAL -
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Balinese traditional kites are gigantic and have evolved into increasingly bombastic proportions over the years. Other versions, such as the janggan have impressive ribbon tails often reaching 100 metres or more in length. Jointly built at the communal banjar village halls all over Bali, skilled youths, supervised by elders, craft bamboo frameworks for weeks. The final results await transport towards the Bali Kites Festival flying grounds on Padanggalak Beach.
Katie ORLINSKY - 1000 MILES -
U SA WWW . KAT I EO R L I N S KY . CO M The Yukon Quest is a 1,000 miles dog sled race from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska. Every February for the past thirty years, up to fifty professional dog musher and sled dog teams journey through the rugged subarctic North American wilderness along what was once the “Klondike Highway,” a historical route that sled dogs used to deliver mail during the turn of the century Gold Rush. Although less known than the Iditarod, the “Quest” is considered to be the toughest sporting event of it’ kind - not just a race, but a test of survival in some of the harshest wilderness known to man.
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Paolo PATRIZI
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WWW . A NJA L I - H O U S E . CO M
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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION - THURSDAY 8 DEC 2016 All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
‘WE ALTER NATURE’ 2016 Guest Curator: Claudia HINTERSEER CURATORIAL NOTE Documentary photography is a powerful medium to both celebrate nature and scrutinise the massive human impact on our environment. This showcase of 15 documentary photo projects for the 2016 Angkor Photo Festival makes the large-scale degradation of our natural habitat and the endangerment of its species visible while juxtaposing it with close-ups and zoom-outs of intact nature and photo projects about human needs and habits. By bringing together the work of some world-renowned documentary photographers including Ingo Arndt, Daniel Beltrá, Edward Burtynsky, Alejandro Durán, Chris Jordan, Daesung Lee, Kadir van Lohuizen, Maskbook project, Paolo Marchetti, Peter Menzel, Simon Norfolk, Joel Sartore, Henk Wildschut and Li Zhiguo my point is to show that the way and the speed at which we’re altering the world’s flora and fauna is stunning and unsustainable. - Claudia Hinterseer (2016)
*** Kadir VAN LOHUIZEN / NOOR - WHERE WILL WE GO? - N E T H E R LA N DS WWW . LO H U I Z E N . N E T “For eighteen months, I have been looking at global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. No one any longer doubts that glaciers the world over are retreating, and that Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an increasing pace. Should humanity start preparing for the biggest displacement of mankind in known history? I have tried to provide globally balanced coverage of how climate change is already affecting places like Kiribati, Fiji, the Carteret Atoll in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, the Guna Yala coastline in Panama, the UK and the USA. As people in all of the world’s regions become displaced at ever growing scales, where will they go?” - Kadir van Lohuizen Simon NORFOLK
/ INSTITUTE - FIRE AND ICE - U K WWW . S I M O N N O R FO L K . CO M “These fire lines represent where the front of Mount Kenya’s Lewis Glacier was at various times. A harvest moon lights the poor, doomed glacier remnant; the gap between the fire and ice ‘snout’ represents the relentless melting. Relying on old maps, GPS data and mapping surveys from peer-reviewed journals, I have recreated a stratified history of the glacier’s retreat. Mount Kenya is the eroded stump of a long-dead, 6,000 meter mega-volcano. Photographically, I hope to reawaken its magma heart. My pictures contain no evidence that this glacier’s retreat is due to manmade warming but it is nonetheless my belief that humans burning hydrocarbons are substantially to blame.” Simon Norfolk
Paolo MARCHETTI / ALEXIA FOUNDATION/GETTY/VERBATIM - THE PRICE OF VANITY - SPAIN
WWW . PAOLOMARCHETTI . ORG “Little is known about the business of animal skins destined to grace the high fashion market, the sacrifice hidden behind the ruthless values expressed by high fashion, and its cultural trend dominated by remorseless standards of beauty. The first three chapters of this longterm project were taken in Colombia, Poland and Thailand, looking at the intensive breeding of crocodiles, minks, and ostriches. I then looked at lucrative tannery activities, completing my report at Italian fashion week. This project is not against breeders but dedicated to all of us, common citizens: we must know the story of what we buy - we have been perpetrating for decades the extermination of animal species destined to be on the luxury market - and we have to stop exercising only our right of blind buyers.” Paolo Marchetti
Daesung LEE - ON THE SHORE OF A VANISHING ISLAND -
SO U T H KO R EA WWW . I N D I P H OTO . N E T Situated on the edge of the Ganges delta in the Gulf of Bengal, the small Island of Ghoramara is under threat. Since the 1960s rising sea levels brought on by global warming have gradually eroded its shoreline; more than half its land area has been lost and two-thirds of its people have had to leave. The farmers and fishermen who have stayed on are entirely dependent on the island’s resources. According to recent studies, Ghoramara will be totally submerged twenty-five years from now.
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Daniel BELTRÁ - FORESTS -
S PA I N WWW . DA N I E L B E LT RA . P H OTOS H E LT E R . CO M “I find inspiration in the beauty and complexity of nature. The fragility of our ecosystems is a continuous thread throughout my work. To capture this, I often work from the air, which more easily allows for the juxtaposition of nature with the destruction wrought by unsustainable development. This unique perspective helps emphasise that the Earth and its resources are finite. By bringing images from remote locations where human and business interests and nature are at odds, I hope to instil a deeper appreciation for nature and an understanding of the precarious balance our lifestyle has placed on the planet.” Daniel Beltrá
Edward BURTYNSKY - MINES AND AUSTRALIAN MINES -
CA N A DA WWW . E DWA R D B U RT Y N S KY . CO M In Burtynsky’s images, it is the insatiable human appetite for the world’s raw materials that is of primary interest. Scarred landscapes become poetic evidence of resources spent, nature transformed as well as realised or failed hopes and dreams. The aerial images of the Silver Lake Operations at Lake Lefroy and of the pits and tailings at Kalgoorlie, along with the Dampier Salt Ponds are among the most handsome that Burtynsky has ever made. They combine a kind of mapping with a keenly felt experience of all the hard rock grit, dust and labour transforming these arid lands.
MASKBOOK PROJECT / Art of Change 21 - AN INTERACTIVE ART PROJECT EXPRESSING ECOLOGICAL IDEAS WWW . M AS K BOO K . O RG
Maskbook is an international, collective and creative action launched in 2015 with the aim to raise awareness about the environmental impact of climate change on our health. From Beijing to Nairobi and many places in between, more than 50 Maskbook workshops and exhibitions were organised with more than 1500 participants from over 30 countries. The gallery of mask portraits create a unique collaborative and worldwide piece of art , offering a means of expressing creative and ecological ideas and solutions. Bringing together art, social entrepreneurship and the youth movement in a unique initiative, Maskbook aims to reduce climate change and promote ecological transition through culture, digital media and co-creation.
Ingo ARNDT - ANIMAL FEET, NEW ANIMAL LIFE AND LAND SNAILS -
GE R MANY WWW . INGOAR NDT . COM With his images, Ingo Arndt wants to stimulate and increase the awareness of his audience and show them the magnificence of nature.
Chris Jordan MIDWAY- MESSAGE FROM THE GYRE -
U SA WWW . C H R I SJ O R DA N . CO M On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
Peter MENZEL - HUNGRY PLANET -
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“We have travelled the world to document the diet of hundreds of individuals and families in over 90 countries. The portraits are part of our Hungry Planet Project - an ongoing effort to bring nutrition education into the lives of all. Examining the amount and cost of food typical families consume in a week, begins our collective discussion of the impact those diets have on human and the Earth’s health. Diet is changing due to globalisation, rising affluence and tides of migration, as people bring their own foods to new lands and acquire new tastes in return. These portraits represent a culinary atlas of our fast-evolving planet.” Peter Menzel
Alejandro DURÁN - WASHED UP -
M E X I CO WWW . A L EJA N D RO D U RA N . CO M
This environmental installation and photography project transforms the international debris washing up on Mexico’s Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet disquieting works. Durán has identified plastic waste from fifty-three nations and territories on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally protected reserve and an UNESCO World Heritage site. He uses this debris to create colour-based, site-specific sculptures that conflate the hand of man and nature. More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament.
Joel SARTORE
/ National Geographic Photo Ark - WINNERS AND LOSERS - U SA WWW . J O E LSA RTO R E . CO M Species are disappearing at an alarming rate and the National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort with National Geographic Fellow and Photographer Joel Sartore and the National Geographic Society to create intimate portraits of every animal under human care, while funding projects focused on species in critical need of protection. Once completed, the Ark will be one of the largest photographic records of its kind and an important resource for future generations, teaching people of all ages about our planet’s amazing biodiversity and fostering a real human connection to Earth’s animals.
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Peter BIALOBRZESKI - PARADISE NOW -
GE R MANY WWW . B I A LO B RZ ES K I . D E “This project features fragments of nature—some staged, others untouched and unaffected by urban growth—located on the periphery of the artificially lit infrastructure of Asian metropolises. The photographs celebrate the lush growth as a sign of hope, yet provoke the question of whether we can still responsibly account for this kind of illumination given the prognosticated climate catastrophe. If we become sensible of our responsibility, then we will have to resort to technologies that put a halt to the waste—and these pictures will become a part of history. The photographs will remind us that decadence and stupidity almost always look quite pretty.” Peter Bialobrzeski
Henk WILDSCHUT - FOOD -
N E T H E R LA N DS WWW . H E N KW I L DSC H U T . CO M The world population has doubled from 3.5 billion to more than 7 billion people since photographer Henk Wildschut was born in 1967. The explosive growth of the global population requires intensive, large-scale food production. The Netherlands is good at this: after the United States, it is the largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. Wildschut noticed that modern, large-scale production techniques do not necessarily lead to a deterioration of animal wellbeing, as is often assumed. And organic is not always as small-scale as we might imagine. The solutions to problems regarding environment, health and well-being can be found in innovation, not in nostalgia.
Li ZHIGUO - TINY AS THEY -
CHINA
In Li Zhiguo’s photos a number of birds and insects are no longer tiny; these puny creatures look bigger and stronger. He shows the tragedy of the human species. “Compared with Nature, humans are tiny. Humans are encoffining creations of Nature, one after another; when they are hammering the nails they find themselves being swallowed, inch by inch, by endless darkness. Compared with Science, humans are tiny. Bizarre species are showing hideous expressions. Alien-like sperms are demonstrating resistance before the fertilisation. Compare with Death, humans are tiny. Death returns oceans to oceans and skies to skies, leaving humans with nothing. Simply nothing. caught between the turmoil of their teenage years and the happiness of motherhood. For these mothers, a baby can offer a life, a future. Some are single parents, others are with the father. The young mother is legally entitled to keep the child, even if the father or her family do not wish her to. The attitude of outside onlookers is often one of disapproval.
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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION FRIDAY 9 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
Swapan PAREKH - BETWEEN ME & I -
INDIA
This project has grown out of the accustomed drift of everyday life. It brings together those vividly charged moments of truancy from attending to the ordinary, where the eye is suddenly taken up into a wholly different order of visual encounter in the peripheries of the familiar, and in an instant comes together as a photographic reflex. Its point lies in an impulsive visual brew that does not feel the need to search for fictional meanings away from what is happening within the exacting serenity of the frame. The instantaneous recognition of facts and relationships pieced together as a unique lexicon, is the essence of this ongoing body of work.
Jodi BIEBER - BETWEEN DOGS AND WOLVES -
SO U T H A F R I CA WWW . J O D I B I E B E R . CO M This project represents a ten-year journey that Jodi Bieber needed to take, beginning in 1994 with the first democratic elections in South Africa. Whether rich or poor, everybody comes with their own baggage. Children accept what is put before them – they are innocent and have little choice. The legacy of South Africa’s past and poverty created an abnormality in its society. Choosing to photograph what Bieber did will not change anything, but it did show that for many, even in the harsh landscape of life, the human spirit is very powerful, with great courage and strength, and the will to keep on trying to move forward and make a better life.
Stéphanie BURET - TUNDRA PRINCESSES -
SW I T Z E R LA N D / F RA N C E WWW . ST E P H A N I E B U R E T . CO M Nenets are the last nomadic people living in Arctic Russia of the Yamal Peninsula. This story describes the activities of the Nenets women inside the chum. A chum is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders and is the microcosm of the Nenets women. Normally, the women mainly spend the day inside the chum whilst the men work outside.
Yoppy PIETER - SAUJANA SUMPU -
I N DO N ES I A
WWW . YO P PYCT U R E . CO M
A contemporary Minangkabau village at the vicinity of Lake Singkarak in West Sumatra. Decades ago, the people migrated from the village and became a part of Indonesia’s urban population, leaving it to crumble through the passage of time. The book is Yoppy Pieter’s attempt to document the village, the Minangkabau’s cultural heritage and their place in the modern society.
Giulio PISCITELLI - INFORMAL FACILITIES IN THE JUNGLE -
I TA LY WWW . G I U L I O P I SC I T E L L I . V I E W BOO K . CO M Calais on the north coast of France has become home to one of the largest informal refugee camps in Europe. During Piscitelli’s last visit to the ‘jungle’ to complete his long term project on immigration to Europe, he looked for a metaphor that represented the transformation from a temporary situation to a stabilised one. The facilities in Calais’ jungle represent the metaphor of a stable reality - shops, mosques, clubs, restaurants- where living in an informal economy is the only way to survive a daily life of discrimination and lack of rights.
Zalmai - THE END OF MIRAGE - A FG H A N I STA N / SW I T Z E R LA N D
WWW . ZA L M A I . CO M The number of people forcibly displaced at the beginning of 2016 rose to nearly 60 million. Unprecedented numbers of migrants and asylum seekers travelled by land and sea to European shores. By mid-November 2015, over 800,000 had reached Italy and Greece, with relatively small numbers arriving in Spain and Malta. 84% of these people originate from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Iraq. This is a refugee crisis. Leaving everything behind, fleeing the war, violence, the destruction, on the road of hope where they have to cross borders without knowing if they will find security. As soon as they arrive on the European soil, humiliation, misunderstanding start.
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Ingetje TADROS - THIS IS MY COUNTRY -
N E T H E R LA N DS WWW . I N G E T J E TA D ROS . CO M This project looks at people who are disenfranchised, neglected and now threatened with displacement. Kennedy Hill Community is just one community that exists in the shadow of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett’s commitment to close down Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal Elders and Leaders are shocked. Losing their country is not like losing a home; it is losing the connection to everything that ties them to the country; community, language, kin, law, culture. This is a confronting portrayal of an unacceptable situation. It puts forward a plea to fellow Australians to turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow man.
Marco GUALAZZINI
/ Contrasto - SOMALIA: THE RESILIENT NATION - ITALY WWW . MARCOGUALAZZINI . COM Somalia has an emblematic role to play in any attempt to understand the refugee crisis today. Over a million Somalians have been internally displaced and a further million have found refuge in neighbouring countries or in Europe. It has also become a place of welcome with over 30,000 Yemenites arriving. The climate of terror, the corrupt state administration, the formation of armed clan groups are all contributing factors to the disease that has been devouring Somalia for decades. But rising up against it today is the collective sentiment of a people that does not wish to feel alone and has decided to take its destiny into its own hands in order to conquer fear and look to the future.
Alexander STEPANENKO - CHERNOBYL VILLAGE -
R U SS I A WWW . FOTO - SA M . R U Alexander Stepanenko visited his native village of Kyselyevka after an eight year hiatus. Nothing had changed: people raised children, plowed fields, and young people had fun in the evenings around a campfire. But “Radioactivity. Danger Zone!” signs had appeared. It is difficult for Stepanenko to say what was easier for him: to overcome the internal discomfort from the radiation or to overcome his impossibility to help his family to leave the village. But where would they go? And who would care about their land and farm? Stepanenko wanted to show the tragedy of not just one person or even a single village, but the tragedy of the whole country.
Peter BAUZA
/ Echo Photojournalism - COPACABANA PALACE - G E R M A N Y WWW . P E T E R BAUZA . CO M Copacabana Palace is the story of a neighbourhood “Sem Teto, Sem Terra”. Over 300 families have been living “Homeless and Landless” in Rio de Janeiro for more than a decade. Construction and financial problems have left buildings empty and unfinished, leaving them available for squatters, the ‘Sem Teto’, to move in. They live in the poorest conditions with few basic necessities. Despite immense anti-poverty policies there are millions of people who still live in horrendous conditions.
Julie GLASSBERG - BIKE KILL - F RA N C E
WWW . J U L I EG LASS B E RG . CO M Glassberg followed the Black Label Bike Club, the first “outlaw bicycle club”, for over three years. Created in 1992 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it now has groups nationwide. It is interesting to see this destructive, rebel culture revolving around such a non-threatening object: the bicycle. Their community is mainly based on bike culture, art and on the real value of relationships; the basic, simple values that seem to have disappeared. These “kids” feel real, speaking frankly and not afraid to take risks and hurt themselves. They are living in the moment, in a risk-free society yearning for security. They are passionate, well-read, talented young people with real discussions.
Danila TKACHENKO
/ Pechersky Gallery - RESTRICTED AREAS - R U SS I A WWW . DA N I LAT KAC H E N KO . CO This project is about utopia, about striving for perfection through technological progress. Better, higher, stronger. The individual is a tool for reaching these goals and in exchange is promised a higher level of comfort. Danila Tkachenko travelled in search of places which used to hold great importance for the idea of technological progress. These places are now deserted, have lost their significance along with their utopian ideology which is now obsolete. Many of these places were once secret cities. These places were the sites of forgotten scientific triumphs, abandoned buildings of almost inhuman complexity.
Yusuf SEVINCLI
/ Les Filles d u Calvaire Gallery
- VICHY -
TU R KEY
Walking is the outcome of Yusuf Sevincli’s one month artist residency in the small town of Vichy, France. Familiar with urban areas, each portrait has been given an intimate dimension by his stay in the heart of Vichy, pushing the door bars, restaurants, but also apartments and houses, taking time to talk to everyone, creating links. Through his nomadic lens, the spa city of Art Nouveau façades and neo-classical villas parts company with its history, its geography, to become a stage for encounters and adventures, a place to indulge in mental projection, a visual poem.
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Matilde GATTONI
/ Tandem Reportages - OCEAN RAGE - ITALY / FRANCE WWW . MATILDEGATTONI . PHOTOSHELTER . COM As a consequence of global warming and rising sea levels, more than 7,000kms of coastline from Mauritania to Cameroon are eroding at a pace of up to 36 metres per year, disrupting the lives of tens of millions of people in thirteen countries. Thousands of villages are being left out in the cold, putting thousands-yearold ways of life on the brink of extinction. Deprived of their means of survival, communities lose their most resourceful people to migration. Rampant unemployment drives drugs and alcohol consumption, the only profitable activities left are those controlled by criminal syndicates. The coastline of Ghana and Togo is now a sequence of crumbling buildings and ghost towns.
Marie SORDAT
/ Box Galer ie - SWAN SONG PART II - F RA N C E WWW . M A R I ESO R DAT . N E T This project explores a close territory offering a poetic alternative to a world that Sordat considers complex and violent. These are familiar places; she’s met humans and animals that guide her to an oneiric level of her daily life and who have soothed her, despite the chaos that is always trying to return. By withdrawing from a concrete reality to enter a world where all forms of life and nature are treated the same way, she photographs the symbols of her own quest for a communion between all of them. Searching for a place in the world and finding it through those images.
Yoshi OKAMOTO - SEA AND JEWELRY -
JA PA N TA B I B I TOYOS H I . W I X S I T E . CO M / YOS H I Women worldwide are disappointment with love. The effects are often kept in the dark. Yoshi Okamoto was one of these women. Because of the difficulties of coping with a sudden traumatic change in their lives, the number of women who commit suicide is not just a few. Why are women so unhappy just by loving someone? There should be something more, something deeper. This project was started by interviewing one of these women. After hearing the real life account of her turmoil, Okamoto decided to share the effects with the world in order to help others.
Hiroyuki ITO
- JAPAN - JA PA N WWW . H I RO I TO P H OTO . CO M In the summer of 2015, the NY-based photographer Hiroyuki Ito set out to travel around his home country. The Japan he saw was full of contradictions: it was ancient and modern, western and eastern, democratic and feudal, peaceful and anarchic, sacred and profane, anonymous and unique, just to name a few. It has a pretty complex character with a lot of harm, and a lot of issues. Opposing forces create dynamic tensions that drive you crazy and keep you going. Where is it going? He doesn’t know. But the country is forever moving forward and his job is to document its endlessly fascinating paradoxes.
Gihan TUBBEH - VERTIGO -
PERU WWW . V E RSU S - P H OTO . CO M / P H OTOG RA P H E RS / G I H A N - T U B B E H Vertigo is inhaled upon excess. The explosion of reality arises upon an anguish born under the physical encounter with things. Little happens on the ground, only from time to time emerges a horse, a soaring bird, a busting wave overcomes, a building piles up, a sky catches fire, a house goes into ruin. A life collapses, thenceforth elevates.
Denis DAILLEUX
/ Agence VU’ - GHANA - F RA N C E WWW . D E N I S DA I L L E U X . CO M When Denis Dailleux first discovered Ghana it left an incredible impression on him and he promised himself that one day he would go and photograph Ghana. It is not however a country so easily tamed, and he had to go there many times. During his last trip, he found that his stubbornness paid off. He discovered a village at the foot of Lake Volta where he encountered the most beautiful people. It was there that he took portraits of a village idiot, of the children, and of a group of fishermen.
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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SATURDAY 10 DEC 2016 - CURATED BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.
MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016
Showcase of the winners of this year’s inaugural Magnum Photography Awards, presented in partnership with Lensculture.
Philip BLENKINSOP - NEPAL ARCHIVES (2001-2014) -
AU ST RA L I A
Blenkinsop’s perspective is that of extreme proximity. Curiosity and tenacity characterise his work. More than anything else there is the courage to lean closer in order to expose the ordinary in the improbable. To minutely study his photographs of Nepal is to be caught in a fractal, eddying view of the immediate past of the country: celebration, dissent, grit and grief are entwined here. In Blenkinsop’s work, each detail appears at once accidental and mediated, perhaps an echo of the reality we inhabit, wrought and wrecked, tender and terrible.
ANGKOR TRAVEL GRANT PRESENTATION
Presenting the recipients of the inaugural Angkor Travel Grant!
SHOWCASE : 12 TH ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS
The annual Angkor Photo Workshops are a tuition-free professional workshop conducted by volunteer international tutors for 30 emerging Asian photographers. After an intense week, we are proud to present the photo stories created during the workshops here in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
TUTORS: IAN TEH & KOSUKE OKAHARA Aishwarya Arumbakkam - AHP -
INDIA
It was a cloudy day when I ran into a strange, beautiful woman in the countryside of Cambodia. Everyone referred to her as Ahp. She lived alone in an isolated house by the edge of the village. No one seemed to know where she came from. But ever since she did, more and more mysterious things seem to be happening.
Basilio Sepe - SOULED OUT -
P H I L I P P I N ES
The vast expanse of stalls, bazaars and the endless waves of buyers, vendors, tourists and locals, make up the bright atmosphere of the Old Market, located in the heart of Siem Reap in Cambodia. As I spend more time there, something else is revealed. Within the lively atmosphere of the market moments of stillness exist, they express the slowness of time, suggesting the mundane reality and fatigue that accompanies the hard work of these characters in this colourful market.
Taro Karibe - CINDERS -
JA PA N
I feel everything around me are like cinders. Even if I try to reach out and embrace them, they collapse into ash. People, things, places each live on their contexts, and repeats encounters and farewells. If it is one second later, if I didn’t chose this path, I have would have never met. For now, I just cherish these encounters in the world ruled by contingency.
Hong Nhung Nguyen - THE STRENGTH OF CAMBODIA -
VI ETNAM
When talking about the strength of a nation, people often think of its military or economy prowess. But for me, I see women as a key part of that national strength. They are our mother, sister, wife, and daughter. Sometimes we forget their importance, especially the women living simple lives in the countryside. This series is for them, the strength of Cambodia 1
Liu Yuyang - MUSIC FOR EVERYONE -
CHINA
Ashfika Rahman - SOMEWHERE ELSE -
BA N G LA D ES H
It is always a psychological trauma to lose your own space and belongings. Nowadays, there is an epidemic which is resulting in the loss of residence and livelihood of the poor and vulnerable on a massive scale. More than a quarter of a million people have been affected by land-grabbing and forced evictions since 2003. Sometimes, silence is more than any storm.
Aizzat Naeem Nordin - KHMER BATTLEGROUND -
M A LAYS I A
Pradal Serey or Kun Khmer is a form of ancient martial art practiced by the Kingdom of Angkor army since the 9th century to wage war against their main enemy, the Vietnam-based kingdom of Champa and later Siam, resulting in the domination of what now known as Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. In the efforts of erasing this art, many Kun Khmer lok kru (masters) were targeted by the vicious Khmer Rouge Regime and executed in the 70’s, leaving Cambodian struggling with poverty and socioeconomic growth after the regime era. Today, Kun Khmer fighters fight hard with pride and dignity in the arena or at the pagoda in rural areas for extra money, hoping that it’s enough to feed their loved ones.
Katya Rezvaya - IN THE SHADOW OF THE LIGHTS -
R U SS I A
The people who work behind the scenes in theatre shows are invisible. They love their work and somehow, the sense of belonging they have to these performances. But they are always in the shadows, watching from the side. Many of them would like to try on these actors’ costumes but have never had the chance. I asked them to choose any costume or parts of it they liked and placed them into the set designs of the theatre.
Shadman Shahid - YOUVOCHON -
BA N G LA D ES H
The Cambodian culture has been influenced by many throughout history. Hindu kings, buddhist monks, emperors, Japanese, French and American have all ruled and left their mark on this land. A madman tried to erase everything and start from zero, killing anyone who would come in their way. Since his failure, the Cambodians are trying to resurrect their old heritage and culture that was almost destroyed. In this complex situation the youth is trying to find their own way, figuring out what it means to be Cambodian.
TUTORS: SIM CHIYIN & NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN Billy K wok - SIXTH SENSE -
H O N G KO N G
They listen to my Hong Kong-accented words, touch me to imagine what I look like and ask me lots of questions. They are curious about everything outside of the Krousar Thmey School for the Blind that is their home, their universe. I close my eyes and feel my way around their world.
Wai Hnin Tun - DREAMING OF CHILDHOOD -
M YA N M A R
There’s something precocious about Kunthea, 10. Night time is her best friend and Pub Street her playground. She dances and begs for food and money from passersby. Her parents have gone missing. She lives with her grandmother in a hut near the busiest tourist area of Siem Reap. While most children her age go to school, she spends her days looking after her grandmother and little nephew. I asked her what she dreams of. She shrugs and disappears into the streets once more.
Shin Yahiro - VESTIGES -
JA PA N
I travelled to Siem Reap over 10 years ago. In the dark reaches of my memory, I recall streets with only a few hotels and restaurants, and sparsely-populated villages unreached by electricity. My photographs from that trip are my only clues as I looked anew at this city -- now awash with light pollution.
Gayatri Ganju - THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF -
INDIA
Her breath quickened as she walked down the path to her house. Everyone else in the village was already inside. The heat from the day rose from the ground and into her. She felt something in the trees behind her but did not turn around. She knew it was watching. 2
Amrita Chandradas - SURRENDER -
S I N GA PO R E
The streets are sleepless, cheap alcohol flows and mayhem ensues. Revelers comfort one another, while I curiously judge them from a distance. I force myself to get in closer. As the night wears on, I drop my guard. And they morph into their inner personas.
Soumya Sankar Bose - FISH OUT OF WATER -
INDIA
The ramshackle huts lay empty. Laundry line the trees. Inside, family photos sit on a pedestal like a shrine. This community of migrant squatters has made a home of this plot tucked away on a bend in the Siem Reap River. By day, they work in town for a living wage. By night, they return to this anonymous home. They do their best to belong here, on land that is not theirs.
Yu Yu Myint Tan - I’VE NEVER TOLD YOU BEFORE -
M YA N M A R
“You should serve him well and not disappoint him.” “No matter what happens, you have to listen to him.” “Do not speak to him as if you consider him as an equal.” “If you are stubborn and talk back to your husband, you are the woman who destroys the repute of the family.” “Forgive him in the name of a woman.” - Excerpts from Chbab Srey, Cambodian book, “How to be a good woman” Women in Southeast Asia who suffer domestic violence often keep silent, straining to conform to rules set by society. I met several Khmer women survivors. We shared our never-before-told stories and journeyed together through grief, and found strength.
Taufiqur Rahman Anik - CAFÉ CHANTANT -
BA N G LA D ES H
Café chantant ( French: “Singing Cafe” ) was originally an outdoor or indoor cafe where small groups of musicians performed live for the public. The tradition of such venues for music originated in Paris and London of 18th century, but gained its widest popularity in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. Siem Reap has its own version of the Singing Cafe.
Ian Hananto - WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS -
I N DO N ES I A
There was a half-face man, they said. Was he real or an urban legend? It felt like a story without an end. I tried to track down traces of him, night after night. Then suddenly, on a street corner, I found him. He did not want to talk. He said his name was Sophon and melted away into the darkness. Was he real?
Rebecca Chew - TWO EYES GOOD, FOUR EYES BAD -
M A LAYS I A
During the Khmer Rouge’s rule (1975 to 1979), people wearing eyeglasses were executed as intellectuals to be eradicated in the regime’s agrarian Utopia. They were among up to two million Cambodians killed. For years after, eyeglasses were suspect. Today, that stigma still holds for some of the older generation. But as Cambodia modernises, and healthcare and education spread, more rural children are getting the glasses they need -- putting an end to one of the regime’s brutal legacies.
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TUTORS: ANTOINE D’AGATA & SOHRAB HURA Charmaine Poh - CLOSE ENOUGH -
S I N GA PO R E
It is only human to desire a love that is approved. A wedding is often a mark of this approval; it is considered an ideal to reach for. But love does not fit neatly into boxes, and one does not always find it. Unceasingly, we try to grasp a thing we cannot name.
Roun Ry - LOW AND HIGH -
CA M BO D I A
My work is about the poor families living in the slum. I think poverty does not allow people to achieve their potential. I remember when I was young; my family was not treated well by people who were rich. My work is not just about the poor, but also about how I take the photograph. I like the way, when I put myself down to the ground to shoot a picture. It is a new experience for me and I feel a bit funny, but I love it. When I lay down on the ground to take a photo, I feel very different because I am in a lower position from the subjects.
Marziyeh Heydarzadeh - CHOICE -
I RA N
I have a challenge in my mind about the people I meet at some tourism destinations like Cambodia. Why some white men are interested in Asian women? Different views, different ideas and maybe different purposes. The choice of being together for a night, a week, a month, or a bigger choice of a lifetime. As I walk through the street of Siem Reap, I think about the emotion of these women.
Franchesca Mae Faustino - SCRUTINY -
P H I L I P P I N ES
I have never done this before—bare myself, my insecurities, and my flaws to a stranger’s eyes or to my own. I am conscious of how other people see me, constantly worrying about the judgments ant the assumptions they make about my body.
Elena Anosova - SEEING HANDS -
R U SS I A
The connection blind people have had with vision is mysterious, wonderful and unclear. Although history has ruined, and science has disrobed our perception of their super sensory abilities, doubt and belief in the supernatural leave open for us a small window into their fantastical hidden world.
Joyce Cesario - FRIGHT -
P H I L I P P I N ES
I have always felt apprehensive about being alive. By purposely getting lost at night, exploring spaces and characters that make me tremble, I gradually find comfort and eventually let go. It is then that a beautiful strangeness starts to unfold, and the desire to exist burns within, and the line between horror and wonder becomes blurred.
Martel Ma - DREAM COME TRUE -
CA M BO D I A
Ratha and Bopha fell in love but they both were from different social classes. Ratha, who came from a poorer family was able to work hard day and night, and saved a large sum of money to pay the offerings of marriage. One day, he went with his family to Bopha’s home, with the offerings to ask her parents for her hand in marriage but when they said yes he was overjoyed because his dream had become a reality.
Zhou Na - NINE LIES -
CHINA
Family is supposed to be a promise of love, not violence. These women live different stories.
Lim Paik Yin - METAPHOR -
M A LAYS I A
Conviction forms our bodies.
Hadi Uddin - LURE -
BA N G LA D ES H
In Siem Reap, I used not only my eyes but all my other senses to feel the world. I did not look around, but looked inside my heart and changed.
Guligo Jia - VISION -
CHINA
My work explores the fantasies of people whose gender is fluid. There are obstacles between their fantasies and reality. These obstacles can be many, such as gender discrimination and stereotypes. But in their own space they have the freedom to voice their inner selves.
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