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Photographs 1-20 1 Untitled. From the series: “Memory Loss”
6 T he Last Of The Billingsgate Fish Porters
CLAUDIA LEISINGER Billingsgate Market, London 2011
MUSTAFAH ABDULAZIZ New York City, USA 2011 USA VS Japan, Times Square
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Kazakh Eagle Hunter of Western Mongolia CHRISTO GEORGHEGAN Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia 2012
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakh Prime Minister, Nursultan Nazarbayev, set out to try and reclaim the rich Kazakh culture and tradition lost during years of Russian ruling. Border agreements and forced collectivisation are some of the factors which led to mass Kazakh migration across Bayan-Ölgii (Mongolia) and Xinjiang (China). In both places, Kazakh culture and tradition are as intact as they were hundreds of years ago. The Kazakh migration has led to a cultural crisis in modern day Kazakhstan where Soviet rule has almost wiped out these nomadic traditions, such as hunting with golden eagles.
3 Nora, Palestinian Bedouin girl
GIULIANO CAMARDA Jerusalem 2011
Nora visits Jerusalem for the first time. Nora is a young Palestinian-Bedouin from the Arab al-Jahalin tribe. Her community lives on the hills to the east of Jerusalem and is currently being evicted and relocated next to the Abu Dis rubbish dump. The forced ethnic displacement will have heavy repercussions on the semi-nomadic Bedouin way of life.
Billingsgate Market began trading exclusively in fish in 1699. Porters, had until April 28th the sole licence to transport fish within the market. In January 2012, the City of London Corporation, withdrew all trading licences from the porters, revoking a bylaw dating back to 1876. Fish porters think that money motivations maybe hidden behind the withdrawal, with Billingsgate standing in the way of the Corporation’s expansion plans for Canary Wharf.
7 Armenian Wedding
TERJE ABUSDAL Georgia 2011
Young women at a wedding waiting for the bride and groom to arrive. Chickens are a traditional wedding gift, intended to feed the young couple for the first month before officially living together. Armenians are the second largest minority in Georgia, representing 7% of the total population.
8 Papua New Guinea TIMOTHY ALLEN Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea 2010 Skeleton dancers from the Omo Masalai tribe. Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world with over a hundred ethnic groups. Even today, many of the remote tribes have only marginal contact with the outside world.
4 Boy Playing Football Jerome Lorieau
9 Untitled BEAT SCHWEIZER Teriberka, Russian Federation 2012
Streets have a fundamental role in Moroccan social life. Children spend a lot of time playing in the streets and here they start socialising in their early years. The street represents a valuable school of life where young people can build strong relationships with their neighbours and connect with their community.
Early in the morning a man cleans out the stove of the local community heating system in the remote village of Teriberka. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Teriberka has seen a dramatic population decrease and loss of economical prosperity. A marine gas field, 550 kilometres from the cost could change all of this, making this little fishing village the natural gas capital of the world.
MEDINA OF RABAT Morocco 2010
Untitled 5 The Milburn Family, Champion 10 JOSE NAVARRO Whipcrackers from Tasmania
JACKIE DEWE MATHEWS Irishtown, Tasmania 2012
Hudson, Brock, Bonnie and Joseph Milburn, the youngest of eight children who live on a remote beef cattle farm and are educated at home. Beef and dairy farming are the main industries in the northwest regions. With the same land mass as Ireland but a tenth of the population, Tasmania is still very under-populated.
Burkina Faso 2011 Sleeping gold miners in Séguénéga. Gold mining in this region is devastating the environment and the community structure. With gold prices at an all time high, more than 90% of able-bodied people in the West African country have been drawn to these mines. The miners are mostly young men, working six days a week and paid by the number of bags of stones they dig out.
11 Buzludja, TIMOTHY ALLEN Bulgaria 2012
16 Construction MARK ESPLIN Wuhan, China 2012
Bulgaria
The Buzludzha Monument. High in the Balkan mountains of Bulgaria stands the country’s largest ideological monument to Communism. Today, this incredible forgotten and derelict building stands as the emblem of an abandoned ideology.
Workers
Situated 800 km West of Shanghai, Wuhan, like much of China, is under heavy construction. Locals are concerned with the rate of development, as this ancient city begins to resemble every modern urban landscape in the country. The site photographed used to be an ancient temple and worshipping ground. Soon it will be a complex of high rise apartments.
12 New Years Day, Sea Point Pool. From the series: 17 “Sea Point swimmers” Waiting for Live. From the series: DAVID CHANCELLOR “The Concordia Show” Cape Town, South Africa 2011 The Sea Point Pool and Promenade on Cape Town waterfront was one of the earliest desegregated areas in post-apartheid South Africa. From an exclusive white area, this public swimming pool is now populated by a mix of class, race, gender and religion. A place for South Africans of all backgrounds to experience happiness together.
13 Kryziu Kalnas(Hill ANGUS FRASER Lithuania 2010
of Crosses)
The Hill of Crosses is a national pilgrimage site in northern Lithuania. It is believed that the first crosses appeared as a sign of defiance in 1831, the year of the Lithuanian uprising for independence against the Russian-Tsarist government. Today there are over half a million crosses and the place has come to signify the peaceful endurance of Lithuanian Catholicism despite the threats it faced throughout history.
14 Tomato Famers, Iran. From the series: “The disappearance of Lake Urmia” ALETHEIA CASEY Lake Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran 2011
Men farm their tomatoes near Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran. Today, due to drought, irrigation and damming projects, Lake Urmia is emptying fast. The lack of rainfall and rising salinity levels are making farming increasingly difficult. It is feared that if the lake dries completely, life threatening salt and dust will blow from the lake, covering the land that once thrived.
15 The Southern Tourist City
GIANLUCA PANELLA Giglio Island, Italy 2012
Journalist getting ready for a live report about the Costa Concordia Disaster. The cruise ship Costa Concordia partially sank on the night of 13 January 2012 after hitting a reef. It is believed the collision was caused by the captain deviating from the ship’s computerprogrammed route to treat people on the island to the spectacle of a near-shore salute. As of October 2012 the shipwreck remains, bringing tourism to the small island but continuing to be an eyesore for the locals and a tangible memory of an avoidable tragedy.
18 The Flood in Pakistan in the Sindh Region
FRANCOIS RAZON Pakistan 2012
The floods are Pakistan’s worst natural disasters. In recent years, abnormally heavy monsoon rains caused destruction of property, infrastructure and livestock and human death. Boats are used instead of cars to go to the market and many people have to rely on people with boats to bring them food and clean water.
19 Man Lying Down ANDRE BAUMECKER Beachy Head, United Kingdom 2010 Old man relaxing on the cliffs of Beachy Head on a peaceful summer day. “I saw the man sitting down on the grass and waited for the right moment, when he laid down I knew that was it” – Andre Baumecker
20 Turkish Blue Gold TOMMASO PROTTI
EMMA LEBLANC Latakia, Syria 2010
Sanliurfa province, Turkey 2011
The flooded mosque in the town of Halfeti on the
The Southern Tourist City is a popular neighbourhood of Latakia, a famous coastal resort town in the north of Syria on the Mediterranean Sea. In the cold winter months, migrant workers from all over Syria used to flock to the humble, hastily constructed neighbourhoods at the margins of the city. Looking for work and taking advantage of cheap off-season housing, they enjoyed a seaside vacation prohibitively expensive during the summer months. The ongoing civil war has stopped such activities.
Euphrates river. In 1999 Halfeti was partially submerged under the waters behind the Birecik Dam, one of the 22 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project. The giant hydropower plan was launched by the Turkish government at the beginning of the 80s to modernise the country’s poorest region and increase its influence with Syria and Iraq, both poor in water resources.
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