FotoFreo 2008 Projections (Details)
Details of each of the audio visual projections selected for FotoFreo 2008 are outlined below and arranged in alphabetical order according to surname.
For entries K-Z click here
Michael Amendolia (Australia)
Preventable Blindness in North Korea
Nepalese Eye surgeon Dr Sanduk Ruit and his five assistants became the first ophthalmic, development team to travel into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK. Dr. Ruit and his team at Tilganga Eye Centre have assisted the North Korean Health Department fight the country’s growing blindness problem.
Michael Amendolia is a photographer working independently for magazines and organizations in Australia and Internationally. He has worked in journalism for 25 years and for the last eleven years as a freelance photographer covering stories across the spectrum of life through his base in Sydney.
From 1992-1993, Michael travelled to Vietnam , Eritrea and Nepal as the principal photographer for the book “Seeing is Believing” on the work of Humanitarian Ophthalmologist Professor Fred Hollows. He has over the last nine years worked with Nepalese Dr Sanduk Ruit on preventable blindness issues in Nepal, India, Tibet, Bhutan and North Korea. Michael received recognition for his stories on Preventable Blindness from World Press Photo organisation in the years 2001, and 1999.
When he is not working he loves hanging out with his wife Felicia and 6 month old daughter Samara.
Travis Beard (Australia)
Afghanistan's first independent photo agency, Aina Photo Agency.
For more than two decades, the people of Afghanistan have been plauged by unrelenting war and conflict. A steady flow of warlords and tribal bands brutally vied for power, tossing the country into chaos. It wasn't until 1996 that one faction gained complete control - the Taliban. Placed under rigid Sharia law, citizens were forbidden to participate in a free press, among other things. It was considered a crime to take or even posses photographs. Truth and communication were hushed.
Then on 11 September 2001, America was assaulted, spawning a great conflict that forced the Taliban from power. Before the dust had a chance to settle, an idea was born from the bullet-scarred ruins.
Formed from the desire to posses a voice, Afghanistan's independent Media and Culture Center (AINA) was established. From there, AINA Photo-journalism Institute, Afghanistan's first and only educational photojournalism and photography institution was created, giving birth to Afghanistan's first independent photo agency, Aina Photo Agency.Founder of argusphotography, Travis Beard has been a working photojournalist for the past 9 years. After completing his Bachelor of Photojournalism, he traveled extensively through the Middle East, Central Asia, the Americas, Australasia and Europe.
Travis has exhibited in London, Amsterdam, New York, Mexico City, Sydney and Melbourne. His work has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines and he now works with French agency Picture Tank. In the last 3 years Travis started exploring the motion picture genre, creating dynamic slideshows incorporated with original soundtracks created by his brother.
Travis is currently in Kabul, Afghanistan working as Chief Editor with NGO Aina Photo.
Marcus Bleasdale
Rape of a Nation.The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to the deadliest war in the world today. An estimated 5.4 million people have died since 1998, the largest death toll since the Second World War, according to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
IRC reports that as many as 45,000 people die each month in the Congo. Most deaths are due to easily preventable and curable conditions, such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition, and neonatal problems and are byproducts of a collapsed healthcare system and a devastated economy.
The people living in the mining towns of eastern Congo are among the worst off. Militia groups and government forces battle on a daily basis for control of the mineral-rich areas where they can exploit gold, coltan, cassiterite and diamonds.
After successive waves of fighting and ten years of war, there are no hospitals, few roads and limited NGO and UN presence because it is too dangerous to work in many of these regions. The West's desire for minerals and gems has contributed to a fundamental breakdown in the social structure.Marcus Bleasdale has now spent eight years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the work was published in his book One Hundred Years of Darkness. The book is recognised in the best photojournalism books of the year 2002 by Photo District News in the USA.
He is widely published in the UK, Europe and the USA in publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Saturday Magazine, Geo Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME and Newsweek, LIFE and National Geographic Magazine.
In 2005 Marcus was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by POYi.
Over the years he has received several first prizes in POY and NPPA awards, both features and news picture stories. In 2004 he was awarded UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, the 3p Grant and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He exhibited in New York at Moving Walls 2005 and was awarded the OSI Distribution Grant 2005 for his work with Human Rights Watch. Marcus was awarded a World Press Photo award in 2006 and the Olivier Rebbot Award by the Overseas Press Club 2006. He is represented by VII.
Ben Bohane (Australia based in Vanuatu)
The Black Islands – Spirit and War in Melanesia
To the north of Australia lie "the black islands" - an archipelago of Melanesian nations from Timor to Fiji that in recent years has come to be known as the "arc of instability". Our notions of these islands have changed in recent years from naive Club Med visages to one of trepidation and even fear as conflict has taken hold in some of these otherwise shimmering and beautiful places.
For the past decade I have journeyed through these islands to find the spirit worlds local people inhabit, so as to better understand their circumstances and ours. It has been a journey through kastom, cultism and conflict in what remains the most under-reported region in the world. Yet the Pacific is growing in strategic significance as a new cold war unfolds between the US and China for control of the Pacific Rim, and Australian troops find themselves increasingly drawn in. Only by taking off our secular goggles and immersing ourselves in the spirit world of our near neighbours can we hope to have a basic understanding of this vast, lyrical region and our own place within it.Ben Bohane spent his first five years in photojournalism based in South and South East Asia covering the wars of Cambodia, Burma and Afghanistan. He got the first interview with opium warlord General Khun Sa in ’91 and in ’92 was reportedly the first foreign traveler to go overland from Kabul to Moscow in 80 years.
In ’94, Ben returned to Australia and began covering the much under-reported Pacific region. He has spent the past 12 years specializing in “Conflict and Kastom” throughout Melanesia and black Australia. While covering every major conflict in the South Pacific – East Timor, West Papua, Moluccu, PNG, Solomon Islands, Bougainville, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia, he traveled and lived with a variety of tribal and rebel groups and was thereby able to secure the first pictures of BRA leader Francis Ona in Bougainville and the only interview and pictures of Guadalcanal warlord Harold Keke before he surrendered to Australian troops.
He has perhaps the largest contemporary photo archive of the South Pacific in the world. His photographs are collected by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Australian War Memorial.
His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The Guardian (UK), Geo, Rolling Stone and many more. Ben also shoots video and has done news stories and documentaries that have been shown on ABC & SBS Australia, BBC, ARD (Germany) and NHK (Japan).
In 2003 he published Follow the Morning Star documenting the forgotten struggle for independence in West Papua and is currently working on a book and retrospective exhibition entitled BLACKFELLA ARMIES – Spirit and War in the Southwest Pacific.
Ben lives in Port Vila, Vanuatu where he continues to specialize in Australasia and the Pacific.
Cara Bowerman (Australia)
‘Chewton’ and the ‘Deni Ute Muster’The Chewton series – an ongoing process – illustrates Cara’s introduction to the rural community of Chewton in Central Victoria. Home to approximately 400 people, Chewton gives the initial impression of the quintessential small town. But becoming familiar with a place means seeing beyond the obvious. Exuding warmth, compassion and a strong sense of community the proud residents of Chewton personify the very characteristics that distinguish their hometown.
Deni Ute Muster: Since 1999, the rural town of Deniliquin, affectionately known as ‘Deni’, in New South Wales has claimed the Guinness Book of Records title for the largest parade of utes in the world. The Deni Ute Muster is a two-day festival celebrating the good, the bad – and the dusty – of Aussie ute culture. 2007 was no exception, with Deni welcoming 6, 235 utes and more than 18,00 people to admire this icon of the outback.
Cara Bowerman is a freelance photographer specialising in documentary photography and photojournalism, a passion which she has pursued from an early age. After graduating from high-school and spending 16 months travelling through Europe and the African continent, Cara returned to Australia, having been accepted into the highly regarded photographic school at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. There she graduated with High Distinction from the BA Photography (Arts) program in 2007, receiving the University’s Kallman Feital Award for High Achievement in a Professional Sphere.
Cara’s major study has been in the discipline of photojournalism, through which she has been able to explore and develop the possibilities of documentary photography. She is currently undertaking a comprehensive documentary study of Chewton, a small town in the Victorian Goldfields. Cara was named among 17 finalists in the prestigious Sixth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award for a selection of images from her Chewton series. This selection is currently being exhibited alongside the work of each of the Leica/CCP Award finalists, an exhibition which will tour around Australia until 2009.
James Brickwood (Australia)
Schoolies celebrate graduation in Surfer's ParadiseAfter 14 long years of study, graduating Year 12 students head to Surfer’s Paradise. With its concentration of high-rise hotels, nightclubs and pubs it is a city well known for its colourful nightlife. Here the students will become ‘Schoolies’, the name given as part of a month long celebration of freedom from parents, teachers and study. The partying often goes all night and into the next day, with ‘Schoolies’ giving themselves just a few hours to recover before waking up and doing it all again.
James Brickwood is a Sydney based freelance photographer. He works for the Sydney Morning Herald and other international publications. Brickwood specialises in the study of underground and youth sub-cultures across the country. His work has been exhibited at Reportage, was short listed for the 2007 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and a finalist in the 2007 Leica CCP Photo documentary awards.
Glenn Campbell (Australia)
North!……True!
Northern Australia, above the tropic of Capricorn, is another Australia, a different Australia, an Australia that is a world away from the affairs of the South of the Continent.
Glenn Campbell has travelled the length and breadth of Australia returning with photographs that have appeared on the front pages of nearly every major newspaper in the country. Based in Darwin ,capital of the Northern Territory , his commissioned work takes him across Northern and Central Australia as well as South East Asia.
Steve Christo (Australia)
The DishlickersThe Dishlikers has the stigma of being the poor man’s races in the sport of kings...every Saturday through out the year at Moss Vale greyhound track a group of die hard racers get together to race their dogs and prepare them for Wentworth park in Sydney the big smoke this essay is about their journey.
Steve Christo studied photography at the Sydney Technical College, and started work at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1987, shooting news, sport and features. He moved solely to sport in 1994, covering two Olympic and two Commonwealth Games, as well as World Cup rugby, Formula One, and World Cup swimming events, both in Australia and internationally. Christo's awards include a 1993 IOC Gold Lens for black-and-white singles, and three POYi Awards of Excellence.
Tim Clayton (UK based in Australia)
The Extraordinary land divers of Pentecost.
Stories vary about the legend of land diving on Pentecost but the accepted belief amongst the islanders is that it has its origins in a dispute between a pair of newly weds who continually argued, so much so that finally the wife decided she had had enough and climbed to the top of a nearby tree from which she threatened to jump off and kill herself.
Feeling guilty about the way he had treated of his new bride, the man decided to join her, agreeing they should both jump together. They both leapt off but unbeknown to the husband, his wife had tied vines to her ankles which broke her fall whilst her husband fell to his death. The women of the island then started diving in her honour, but this was quickly stopped by the menfolk when the womens' grass skirts ended up over their heads revealing too much to onlookers. The men took over the role of land diving while the women were banished from the dive site and only allowed to participate in dancing on dive day.
As time went by, land diving also became associated with the celebration of the Yam harvest. The two coincide seasonally, with dive jumping taking place between March and June when the vines are strong and supple. Such associations also meant that it came to represent the local male rite of passage but now there is no pressure on anyone to jump, let alone boys wishing to prove their manhood. Nonetheless, dive jumping is all about learning: attention to detail, precision, accuracy. But before you get to the top, you literally have to start at the bottom.Tim Clayton was born in Leeds, UK and started his career on the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds. He immigrated to Australia in 1990 to take up a position on the Sydney Morning Herald where he has covered sport full time for the past seventeen years. Covered Five Olympic games, Soccer and Rugby World Cups. Awards include Seven World Press Photo Awards.
James Whitlow Delano (USA based in Japan)
China: Dystopia / Utopia.
To observe a society in a snapshot of time can create a false impression. Erasing the past is nothing new to China. The Communist Revolution and the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution are two recent examples of such iconoclastic behaviour. What is different now is the scale and concentration of the effort. It is distilled in its purity and awe-inspiring for its totality.
China surpassed Japan in 2004 to become the second-largest consumer of petroleum, after the United States, on the planet. Its economy and social stability, not to mention its might, will profoundly affect the prospects for world peace in the years ahead.
Despite such sparkling growth statistics, China's per capita GDP is only around US$1,000 a year and, despite a government described of as communist, one of the world's greatest chasms exists between rich and poor.
No great wave of immigration, as seen 80-100 years ago in America, is necessary to meet a demand for cheap labor, as China's depressed, agrarian interior possesses millions of landless peasants eager to illegally migrate to cities to earn higher wages for unskilled labor. These peasants are the fodder for urban factories which fuel China's phenomenal economic growth.
While reforming markets, the government's social safety net was largely abandoned, creating uncertainty in social welfare, education and retirement. In the past five years begging on the streets, by the aged and those permanently disabled by industrial accidents, and prostitution have reappeared with a vengeance.
Large swathes of land have been confiscated from under peasants' and even city residents' feet to make room for grand construction projects targeting the moneyed classes or foreign investors. Entire cities have been inundated as a result of dam projects. Some 1.3 million people were uprooted for the 3 Gorges Dam project alone along the Yangtze River.
Meanwhile a small, select minority has grown fantastically wealthy and prone to conspicuous material consumption. The seeds for class warfare have been laid. Will China be able to bridge the growing gulf between wealth and poverty?
According to Delano, “My goal is to visually document the effects of this great transformation on the people of the People's Republic of China and the environment in which they live.”James Delano received Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eisie) Award administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and presented by Life Magazine, for work done in China. His work has received the Award of Excellence three times from Communication Arts Photography Annual for work done in China, West Africa and monograph book publishing. His monograph book, Empire: Impressions from China (Five Continents Editions) was awarded in the 2005 PDN Photography Annual and received the 2005 Award of Excellence from Communication Arts.
James Whitlow Delano doesn't like to pontificate about photography. We know this because he said so in an interview from Japan, where he makes his home. "This work is entirely uncensored and unaltered," he says, "I don't change anything for anyone...I have a point of view and a reason for each undertaking."
"Immersing myself in a country means, for me, quietly wandering the backstreets of its cities, towns and villages. I find it is still possible to slip into a place or situation unnoticed - at least temporarily. Speed is everything. I must pass by quickly and quietly in order to capture the 'out of the corner of my eye' immediacy that I seek before I disturb the scene".
Agnès Dherbeys (France based in Thailand)
Timor Leste: The shattered dreams of independenceWorld press award winning photographer Agnès Dherbeys, documents the continuing troubles in East Timor, where, despite the people winning their independence in May 2002 in a bloody struggle, they continue to have trouble building a coherent national identity. The murderous violence within the army in 2006 has suddenly divided the country between Easterners and Westerners and the gravity of the situation forced an International Armed Force (mandated by the UN, under Australian command) to come back in to the country. Dherbeys captures the exploding and volatile atmosphere of the 2007 presidential elections, symptomatic of the bitterness within the little country. In spite of all, the Timorese voted massively for a Peace Nobel Prize: José Ramos Horta.
Agnès Dherbeys is a Bangkok based, 30 year old French photographer and founder of EVE photographers. She has mainly worked in Nepal, East Timor, Cambodia, and Thailand, also in Palestine and Israel. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Le Monde 2, Liberation, Publica, Marie Claire, IHT, among others. She was winner of the Foundation Lagardère grant 2005, for her project in East Timor. Timor Leste: The shattered dreams of the Independence was recently exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, and was a projection in Angkor Photo Festival. In 2007, she won second prize stories Spot News of the World Press Photo for her work on the Nepalese Popular Uprising against Absolute Monarchy. She is also one of the 12 participants of the Joop Swart Master Class 2007.
Mark Dundas (Australia)
Newtown PhotosNewtown Photos is part of an ongoing project to record present day Newtown and the neighboring Inner West suburbs.
Mark Dundas’ photographs have been seen in Reportage, Cross Projections, Shutterbug 07 and HeadOn 07.
Adam Ferguson (Australian based in India)
Heroin in Manipur
With the 'Golden Triangle' stretching between Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China, a porus Indian border leaves India's northeastern states like Manipur vulnerable to an illegal heroin trade.
Ongoing tribal insurgencies, corruption and a disregard for India’s northeastern states from New Delhi, render communities like Churanchandpur in Manipur politically volatile and economically stifled. High unemployment and minimal opportunity cause a high number of youth to turn to drugs to escape poverty.
But with Myanmar as a rogue neighbor, and corruption making the stifling of the heroin trade almost impossible, heroin trafficking goes on and little hope is left for any action to stop the free flow of heroin that devastates lives in India's volatile northeast.
Adam Ferguson was born in Australia in 1978 and began his photographic career in 2001 when he commenced a Bachelor of Photography at Australia's Griffith University.
Adam graduated with a major in photojournalism in 2004 and was awarded a Peace Scholarship from Griffith that sent him to South East Asia to document Peace Art Project Cambodia, a public awareness campaign aimed at curbing small arms in Cambodia.
Since university Adam has travelled abroad working between photography and sailing, with the latter being used to fund the launching of his career. In 2006 he moved to Paris where he interned with VII Photo Agency, and consequently went on to work as Gary Knight's assistant.
Adam's photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The London Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Courrier International and is currently working under contract with The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He is based in New Delhi, India, were he works as a freelance photojournalist.
Craig Golding (Australian)
Surf ClubSurf-lifesavers are a group of people whose connection to each other is their affinity with the beach – a community drawn by the freedom of the surf and the oceans endless energy. On beaches from September till April, lifesavers participate in competitions. Their aim is to further develop and demonstrate their lifesaving skills and their mission, to provide safe beaches and aquatic environments throughout Australia.
Craig Golding commenced work at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1985 and covered all areas of photography for the paper such as news, sports and the arts. Craig’s first major opportunity in sport was being sent to cover the 1989 Australian Open Tennis Championships in Melbourne. A picture taken during this assignment was awarded first prize in the 1989 Concours World Sports Photo Contest. In 1991 he was appointed as full time sports photographer for the Herald, allowing him to combine his passion for both sport and photography. He has been photographing sport for the Herald ever since both in Australia as well as at major International sporting events. Craig has won over 30 International awards ,including 5 World Press awards, and more than 50 National awards for his Sports Photography, the most recent being the 2007 Walkley Award for Sports Photography. He has recently published a book called Surf Club, a long-term photographic project depicting surf lifesavers in competition.
Stuart Isett (USA)
Lost Boyz: Deporting the Cambodian Diaspora
For nearly 15 years Stuart Isett has documented the lives of young Cambodian men in the United States, most recently following the path of some 200 who have been deported back to Cambodia since 2002. One of the untold stories of the current immigration hysteria sweeping America is the deportation of young Cambodians, mainly men, who came to the United States as infants and refugees after escaping the Khmer Rouge genocide, civil war and illegal US invasion and bombings of Cambodia. Their families, poor, uneducated farmers for the most part, were dumped in some of America's worst gang infested neighborhoods, driving many of these young children into gangs.
Stuart Isett is an American freelance photographer based in Seattle, USA. Born in Switzerland and raised in the UK, he has a Masters in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago and an undergraduate degree in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan. Isett was based in Thailand, Japan and France for over 14 years before moving back to the United States in 2006 but he still covers the world, focusing mainly on Asia and Asian issues. Stuart has worked for The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time, Businessweek, Fortune, Newsweek, Geo, Le Figaro , Marie Claire and Life magazines as well as El Mundo (Spain), The Independent (UK), AERA (Japan), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and The Times (UK) among others.
Siddharth Jain (India)
Rajasthan: Scenes from the unseen
“The much celebrated, much seen and much photographed desert state of India. Always on the tourist map it is well known for its cultural dose of history, lore, castles and forts. Rajasthan is also the largest state of India and probably the most photogenic. Also inherited is the diversity from the desert to lush greenery, the festivals and death, the religions practiced and uniqueness of its cities. Add to it the many quirks and unconventional nature of its people ,who after all are as much a part of the state as the flora and fauna , you get a gamut which is challenging yet interesting to document”. Siddharth Jain.
Siddharth Jain is a young upcoming photographer from India. He took up photography in late 2005 after completing a degree in business administration from IIFT, Delhi .His images being selected for various publications,galleries and competitions like Harper Collins, National Geographic ‘your shot’, Asian Geographic( Singapore), Platform Mag (India), Gjon Mili 2006 award, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) international photo competition 2007, City-Magazine( New York) Travel competition 2007 and others. Currently based in India, he is working on individual projects which include "All shot in Rajasthan: Scenes from the unseen" and "Festivals of India" besides others. He is also a member of OnAsia Images.
Andrew Jamieson (Australia)
A Portrait of the Australian Outback
Driving up north, Andrew went searching for iconic scenes and quirky characters that depict Australians in the outback.
In 2005, Andrew Jamieson headed to South East Asia on a one way ticket and a camera in hand. Living amongst an AIDS community in Cambodia for 2 months, Andrew’s work was published in Australian Capture magazine. Eyes tuned in, he returned home and started to see what differentiates us as Australian in facial expression, nuances of posture and open demeanor.
Bo Janmaat (Netherlands now working in Australia)
Accidental Faces & Crashed Cars
“On the street I find my faces.
"Faces from posters and graffiti, faces of people.
"A short meeting, an image and gone.
"Posters fade away, graffiti gets painted over and people walk around the corner.
"Gone.
"Left is one nice shot, a very short story. A story to share.
"The cars I bump into remind me of those torn and deteriorating posters, stripped of their eyes and slowly, slowly getting overgrown by the endless Australian landscape.
"Like everything is.” Bo Janmaat.
In 2003, after managing a photo and film studio in Amsterdam for over 15 years, Bo Janmaat completely changed his life and started taking photographs himself. Now he is discovering the possibilities and opportunities of 'living with the camera'.
Gerhard Jörén(Sweden now working from Hong Kong)
First Deadly Sin
Of this photographic project Gerhard says, “I started the project First Deadly Sin in July 1996 and worked on it for 4 years. I wanted to photograph people that choose to work in the sex industry around the world, which had not been documented in a broad range before. The toughest challenge was to get access to brothels and sex clubs, and to get close to the people. Sometimes I returned 3 or 4 times over a long period of time. I didn't want to take a stand point, it's a personal journey with no beginning or end, just a few photographic notes along the way.”
Born raised in Sweden, Gerhard Jörén moved to New York in 1982, where he launched a career in editorial and corporate photographer. In 1987 he moved to Hong Kong and stayed for 7 years and continued to work for international magazines. After some years in Stockholm and Bangkok he moved back to Hong Kong in 2005. He continues to travel the world and has no plans to slow down.
Kemal Jufri (Indonesia)
Triple Blow: Indonesia in the Midst of Catastrophes
In Triple Blow, Kemal Jufri offers a visual record of human struggle and the resilient character displayed by the Indonesians in coping with the challenges brought about by the aftermath of a string of natural disasters that plagued the country.
Kemal Jufri is one of Asia’s leading Photojournalist based in Jakarta with more than a decade of experience covering Indonesia and parts of Asia for major publications around the world. Kemal’s work has been published in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, BusinessWeek, Stern, GEO France, Der Spiegel, El Mundo and many more. In 1998 his photograph was selected as one of Newsweek’s Picture of the Year (POY) followed by a US News & World Report’s POY (2000) and a TIME magazine’s POY (2005). He has also won numerous awards and grants including two World Press Photo Grants (2004 & 2007), two Awards from Pictures of The Year International (POYi – 2000 & 2007), a Silver Award for Best in News Photography from IFRA – Asia Media Awards (2006), and was awarded as one of Indonesia’s Most Outstanding Young Journalists (2001). Kemal has also participated in numerous photo exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas. Currently he is represented by Polaris Images in New York.
Manca Juvan (Slovenia) Metaphor Images
Venezuela – “socialism of the 21st century”?
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, who today is the Latin-American leader with the biggest political influence, got re-elected in December 2006 with 61% of the votes. At the beginning of his new six-year term, he announced the coming of a new form of socialism, different from the one that ended in failure in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, or today in Cuba. He heralded a “plural socialism”, based on the ideas of the French Revolution.
In Venezuela, the Revolution is made up of at least two different realities. However, after eight years in power, Hugo Chavez hasn’t yet managed to reduce the huge social fracture. Crime is still ripe, especially in the capital, Caracas. But, while the opposition remains weak and divided, Chavez, with his inflated rhetoric and utopian social programmes, still awakens the dignity and aroses the poor.Manca Juvan, born 1981 in Slovenia, has worked as a freelance photographer since 2000, after completing her studies at the Slovene School for Photography (1996 - 2000).
Recently she has been collaborating with Slovenia's largest daily newspaper, Delo, and its Saturday supplement edition, in addition to the weekly women's magazine, Jana.
She was selected Photographer of the Year in Slovenia for her reportage work in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She was twice commended – in 2005 and 2006 – for her work on Afghanistan by the Slovenian Association of Journalists. In 2004 she was chosen from 100 candidates to be one of 15 photographers to participate in a workshop sponsored by Altemus and the VII Photo Agency for young photojournalists from Eastern Europe. Manca Juvan joined Corbis in 2007.For entries K-Z click here
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