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SPOTLIGHT/ July 11, 2010
Editor's Note: SDN dedicates this Spotlight in memory of the 8,000 men and boys who lost their lives during the massacre at Srebrenica fifteen years ago today.
Slow Healing Wound
Fifteen years after the war ended in Bosnia, two photographers look at peacetime in Sarajevo
Photographs by Tomasz Bereska and Tomasz Szustek
Senior citizens prefer to play chess in the park.  |
Sarajevo. It's very hard to escape from wartime memories when visiting this city, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Bosnian War, citizens of Sarajevo suffered the longest siege (1992-1996) in modern history. During that time, more than 10,000 people were killed and another 50,000 wounded.
This kind of tragedy doesn't disappear quickly. War is over and the city of Sarajevo enjoys peaceful reconstruction but the remains of war can be seen on the walls and people's faces and felt in conversations. The presence of EUFOR (European Union Force) reminds one of past difficult times as well.
Teenagers from Sarajevo have no memories about the war. They are cheerful and happy as they should be at this age. But for their parents' generation, the city is still dotted with memories of siege time--memories which should never be forgotten.
This essay is by members of a new international photo agency, Uspecto,
based in Dublin, Ireland. uspecto@gmail.com.
Click here to view the exhibit.
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Throwaway Soldier
Photo essay by Marielle van Uitert on the Afghan National Police
Photo by Marielle van Uitert. Portrait of a member of the Afghan National Police  |
This is one section of an eight-part series on Afghanistan titled "The Heritage" by Dutch photographer Marielle van Uitert.
The ANP (Afghan National Police) has to re-conquer state control of the Taliban and to offer security to its citizens. Working for the ANP is a very dangerous job. Many ANP outposts are attacked by insurgents. They receive very little money which is often not paid within a year. Nevertheless most men take the risks for granted as they try to make the country more stable.
Click here to view the exhibit.
For the second part of van Uitert's series on Afghanistan, focusing on the Dutch ISAF forces in Afghanistan, click here.
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The Ruins of Detroit
Photographs by Eric Smith
Photo by Eric Smith. Abandoned and burned home along the Davison Freeway  |
The mayor of City of Detroit, Dave Bing, has received federal money for the demolition of 10,000 Detroit homes over the next three years. Forty percent of the city is abandoned, a vast horizon of vacant land and burned out buildings. Currently, there are 33,000 empty and unused homes in the city. Along with thousands of empty commerical buildings. Detroit Michigan is at the bottom of economic recession in the US. Nationally the US is just below 10% unemployment. The state of Michigan is at 14%. But Detroit, as estimated by Mayor Bing, could be as high as 50%.
Click here to view the exhibit.
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Mothers of a Nation
Women in Uganda
Photographs by Ansley West
Photo by Ansley West. Edisa, Jinja Uganda, 2010  |
Mothers of a Nation is about a group of empowered Ugandan women who struggle with changes in society's traditional roles after women's suffrage. This bittersweet victory, granted by Museveni, Uganda's present president, in 1985, came at a heavy price. Today, Uganda is still a male dominated society that now feels that if women are free to work outside the home then they can carry the workload of both men and women. The photographs depict the women who tirelessly uphold their nation despite personal heartache and suffering.
Click here to view the exhibit.
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Crisis & Opportunity Exhibition Comes to Photographic
Resource Center in Boston
Opening reception: Thursday, July 15, 5:30-7:30 pm
Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession, features the winners of a call for entries
on the global recession organized by SocialDocumentary.net in 2009. The exhibit runs through August 8.
Photographers:
Tomasz Tomaszewski, Poland
Shiho Fukada, Japan
Khaled Hasan, Bangladesh
Michael McElroy, U.S.
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
617-975-0600
www.prcboston.org
Documentary Night at the PRC!
Thursday, July 22, 6:30-8:30 pm
Bring your documentary work (prints or on a laptop) to
discuss with others, or just come to look. To register to show work at
Documentary Night (first come, first served basis), or for more information, email
info@prcboston.org
or call the PRC at 617-975-0600. Bring refreshments to
share!
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Ed Kashi, SDN Advisor, Joins VII
"I take on issues that stir my passions about the
state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of
still images to change people's minds."
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi, acclaimed documentary photographer, journalist, and member of SDN Advisory Committee, has
joined VII as a co-owning member of the agency. Kashi's recognized
position as a leader in photojournalism is built on his lifelong
commitment to covering important social and political issues, which has
been honored in a string of major photographic awards across his career.
"I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and
our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change
people's minds," says Kashi. "I'm driven by this fact; that the work of
photojounalists and documentary photographers can have a positive impact
on the world." More>>
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About SocialDocumentary.net
SocialDocumentary.net
is a new website for photographers, NGOs, journalists, editors, and
students to create and explore documentary websites investigating
critical issues facing the world today. Recent exhibits have explored
oil workers in the Niger River Delta, male sex workers in India,
Central American immigrant women during their journey north, and Iraqi
and Afghan refugees in Greece. Click here to view all of the exhibits.
Spotlight Credits
Editor: Glenn Ruga
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