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| VIINETWORK PHOTOGRAPHERS' LATEST STORIES |
The VIINETWORK expands the ideals and journalistic mission of VII Photo to include important photographic work by selected non-members. This new collection of talented photographers permits VII Photo to continue to support its clients throughout the world in meeting their demand for high-quality, in-depth reportage, contemporary issue-based stories which provide a critical photographic perspective of the world around us. |
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Lynsey Addario
• Eric Bouvet
• Jessica Dimmock
• Tivadar Domaniczky
• Ziyah Gafic
• Balazs Gardi Ashley Gilbertson • Jocelyn Bain Hogg • Benjamin Lowy • Stefano De Luigi • Seamus Murphy • Donald Weber |
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| Haitian children prepare for dinner at the Garden of Patience orphanage in Port au Prince. LYNSEY ADDARIO / VII Network |
| LYNSEY ADDARIO |
Haiti Orphans - Many children in Haiti's orphanages aren't necessarily orphans as we define them: many of them have parents who can't care for them due to dire poverty, only exacerbated by the earthquake. Since the earthquake that killed roughly 230,000 in Haiti, children have been one of the many great casualties. Many have been left at orphanages, abandoned on streets and left to die in mounds of trash. The conditions in orphanages overall are in dismal condition–many are unsanitary, food is scarce, and they are known to be rife with abuse. |
Haitian Amputees - In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, thousands of survivors are faced with the difficult challenge of living with a recent amputation. Many of the amputees are young and must find ways to move on in their new environment. |
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| A woman walks through piles of household garbage that cover the road as well as the nearby sewage canal in Karachi's Machar Colony, Pakistan. Balazs Gardi / www.facingwatercrisis.org / VII Network |
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Facing Water Crisis - Karachi - Amar Guriro, a Karachi based journalist, and a WaterAid fellow, has named Machar Colony “The town of miracles”. As we walk through piles of rubbish surrounding children who use the streets as a playground, he explains that surviving here is only possible by the appearance of small miracles. A major sewage drain passes through Karachi's largest slum settlement called Machar Colony, home to around 700,000 people of different nationalities including Afghans, Bangladeshis, Biharis and Burmese, among others.
As Machar Colony is an illegal slum settlement, government departments do not provide even the most basic facilities like gas, electricity or potable water. The open drain, blocked under a thick layer of garbage, is also the passageway for potable water supply pipes. Residents have managed to connect pipes to the main water pipeline across the main road beside the colony from where they can then distribute the water to underground storage tanks.
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Facing Water Crisis - Venice -
The city of Venice has begun to rebrand its tap water, calling it Acqua Veritas, in an attempt to woo both residents and tourists away from the environmental hazards (and waste collection nightmare) of bottled water. Italians are one of the leading consumers of bottled water in the world. Venice’s tap water comes from deep underground in the same region as one of Italy’s most popular bottled waters.
Balazs has created a special website dedicated to his three-year, personal project titled Facing Water Crisis:  www.facingwatercrisis.org
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| Destruction along a road in Carrefour Feuilles, Haiti. Benjamin Lowy / VII Network |
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| Haiti - More than 200,000 people died, according to Haitian officials, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore through the capital of Port au Prince and the surrounding areas. The quake left hundreds of thousands homeless and in need of emergency aid as NGOs struggled to get aid into the country. A bottleneck at the damaged airport, unreachable docks and obstructed roads were some of the impediments facing aid workers. Tensions grew in the capital as shortages of food and medical supplies spurred looting and sporadic violence. |
| Afghan High - Afghanistan’s opium production has increased more than 15-fold since 1979, the year of the Soviet invasion in the country. By 2000 Afghanistan was the source of 70 percent of all of the illicit opium produced in the world. Following a decline in 2001, production resumed at high levels in 2002, again making Afghanistan the world’s largest producer, accounting for almost three-quarters of global opium production. |
| ERIC BOUVET | |
| French OMLT in Afghanistan - In the Alasaï Valley, some 50 kilometers east of Kabul in the Kapisa province, Afghan National Army, ANA, soldiers share three bases with the French Operational Mentor and Liaison Team, OMLT. The 1,500 OMLT trainers, from 20 countries, live with Afghan forces on the front lines with one common goal: to improve the skills of soldiers in the field, part of an effort to build up the army and the police force so that they can govern the country on their own. In the morning, ANA soldiers train and learn and in the afternoon they leave the base with nine French military soldiers, often to fight. |  |
| Air Commandos - Roughly 1900m above sea level, French Operational Mentor Liaison Teams, OMLT, ascend the ridges of Alasai Valley toward a small permanent military base of 12 Afghan soldiers known as the Eagle Nest. They are parachute commandos--"Commando Parachutiste de l’Air", CPA--who specialize in rescue and personnel recovery, and guiding planes. Every week the French OMLT arrive for a 24 or 36 hour mission. |  |
| ZIYAH GAFIC | |
Quest for Identity - They are simple objects: clocks, keys, glasses. They are things that the victims of the Bosnian War carried with them on their final journey, and now they are important clues in identifying the thousands who disappeared during the years of the conflict. As part of the process of identifying those who disappeared, personal belongings found with victims' remains have been collected by the International Commission of Missing Persons, which was established after the initiative of U.S. president Bill Clinton in 1996. The main goal of the commission is to identify those lost in the killings--the first act of genocide on European soil since the Holocaust. |
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Illiteracy in Pakistan - With a population of 170 million, Pakistan bears the burden of one of the most illiterate countries in Asia. About half of the male population is illiterate and nearly two thirds of the female population can't write their names. By comparison, in war ravaged Afghanistan 66 percent of boys attend primary schools, and in India 80 percent of its children go to primary schools. In Zimbabwe, after decades of Mugabe’s disastrous rule, about 80 percent of the children complete primary education. So, why is a country with nuclear arms and elaborate security keeping its citizens illiterate? |
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Paparazzi -
This ongoing project explores the ghoulish fascination with images of celebrities and looks at the hunter/prey relationship between photographer and Hollywood star. As newspapers across the country go under and editorial magazines grow thinner, celebrity magazines are amongst the few forms of print media making any profit. Thus the story of the paparazzi also tells the story of the current state of American culture. The modern paparazzi - young, male, aggressive, often foreign - must go to increasingly dramatic lengths to get their images. High speed car chases, trespassing, tipping informants and secret alliances are all regular parts of the business. |
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Boston General Hospital -
The Emergency Room at Massachusetts General Hospital, like so many hospitals throughout the country, is at 100% capacity 100% of the time. The ER logs an average of 255 beds a day, patients often overflow into beds in the hallway, and at times ambulances must be turned away. Approximately 114 million patients who seek treatment in ERs each year, many of whom lack health insurance and thus cannot seek other forms of healthcare. This story chronicles one 12 hour period, from 6 pm to 6 am, throughout the ER. |
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Dreams Into Reality - For nine generations the Richter artiste family has been noted and highly acknowledged by the circus profession. The family has been touring all five continents since their circus was established in 1821 at the Brandenburg Gate. The unique elephant and equestrian acrobatic productions, that combine both traditional and new styles, have become world hits, winning them several awards at the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo. Florian Richter and the Hungarian National Circus transform the everyday into a magical experience from evening to evening. |
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Breathing Dust - Gaza Strip -
Breathing Dust On 27th of December, 2008 Israel launched a major military operation against the Gaza Strip, the biggest since the Six Days War. The Israeli offensive, Operation Cast Lead ended after 22 days with an unilateral ceasefire. Israel's aim was "to change realities on the ground" by stopping weapon smuggling through the tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, and the Palestinian militant activities along the Gaza-Israel border. During the more than three weeks long war about 1300 Palestinian died, thousands of homes were destroyed and the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip was severely damaged.
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| ASHLEY GILBERTSON | |
| Dress Rehearsal -
Inside Central Louisiana's Fort Polk military base, 100,000 acres of snake-infested pine forest is designated as a training area, known as "The Box", where, each month, about 5,000 soldiers readying for tours in Afghanistan or Iraq, are trained in a full dress rehearsal for war.
Mock towns built by Hollywood set designers are constructed from shipping containers covered in painted and sculpted polystyrene. The towns are filled with details -- mock fresh fish on ice, mock fruit stands, even mock butchered animal heads. Dozens of actors work around the clock, acting out their designated status of green (friendly), amber (neutral), and anti-coalition (red). |
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| After the Fall - New Yorkers are resilient. Since this recession began - the most punishing since the Great Depression - hundreds of thousands of jobs have disappeared from the city's economy, homelessness has increased dramatically, and stores are closing down on virtually every city block. Still, New Yorkers carry on. | |
| JOCELYN BAIN HOGG | |
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The Oscars -
Every year an army of carpenters, carpet-layers, set designers, stylists, TV presenters, technicians, beauticians, security guards, chauffeurs and extras gather for the annual Oscar ceremony. A week before the event, the red (or more accurately crimson) carpet is unleashed and un-shrink-wrapped and a set is built outside the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in readiness for the glitziest gathering of the movie-worlds’ great and good. To see more related work visit: Idols + Believers. |
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Morris Men -
As English as cucumber sandwiches and cricket, the sound of men dancing with bells on their toes, handkerchiefs waving and sticks bashing together resonate throughout the summer months in the pubs and village greens of the land. Legend has it that Morris dancing originated in medieval times with the name being an anglicised version of Moorish Dancing but, like many traditions, was hijacked by the Victorians in an attempt to hearken back to a folkloric time passed. |
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Somaliland - Unlike southern Somalia, where 18 years of civil war has ravaged the country, Somalilanders have managed to mediate their conflicts, to demobilize the clan militias and merge them into a national army. They’ve survived despite the lack of international recognition and a GDP of less than 50 million dollars per year.
Things are different now though. One year ago, several suicide bombers blasted into the presidential Palace, the United Nations compound and the Ethiopian Embassy--Ethiopia being the only country that recognizes Somaliland and is the sole regional ally. Many people perished in the attacks, credited to Al-Shabab, the Somali radical Islamic group often linked to al-Qaeda, who claimed responsibility. |
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| South Korea - One of the world leaders in innovation, South Koreans are using new measures to tackle recent economic hardships. Since last year, millions of South Koreans have been working less--in the first quarter of 2009, the average work week fell by 3.5 percent in the country. And although thousands have lost their jobs, the unemployment rate has not increased. Today, South Korea is doing everything possible to avoid the mistakes made in the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, where 400,000 people were laid off each month. President Lee Myung-Bak has described the retention of jobs "the ultimate target." The government has called on companies to hire, not fire. |  |
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Providence - High school football has a fanatical following in these parts. The school governor of Lake Providence High School, Glenn Dixon, figured that success on the football field would attract investment in the school, the team and the town. But the school team, the Panthers, had failed to reach the play-offs in 25 years, and had gone three seasons without a single win. Dixon set about finding the best coach for the job, which turned out to be Sonny Nason – a white man. Dixon had to fight resistance to change as well as prejudice to secure him, but eventually he succeeded. |
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Shambhala - Shambhala is the oldest Asian vision of enlightenment. First mentioned in the Maharabharata, picked up and transformed by Tibetans, Chinese and Mongolians, the story always tells of a great and just principality, lost somewhere in the northern mountains of Asia. This is a magical land which has been ruled by priest-kings for many thousands of years. Shambhala forms a gateway between the physical and spiritual realms. |
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| The Night Watch of Democracy - While the world awaits the judgment of history in Afghanistan and Iraq, fearing the worst, the 2009 local elections in Kosovo, the country's first free elections since declaring independence, shows that democracy in the Balkans retains the staying power of the nearby Adriatic Sea. | 
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| Gamma City, Into the Half-Life - The city of Zholtye Vody, meaning yellow waters, in Ukraine was once the hub of uranium mining and enriching during the Soviet era. The region of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast was a major center of design and production of the atomic industry. Today, over half the population of 60,000 people suffer from some sort of radiation sickness as their homes were built using materials contaminated with uranium and are within two kilometers of two nuclear waste sites as well as the enrichment factory, which all combine to make a lethal dose said to be much worse than Chernobyl. |  |
| VIINETWORK NEWS |
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WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2010 Contemporary Issues: 2nd Prize Singles Stefano De Luigi |
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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS With Eric Bouvet Arles France Workshop: April 19-24. Dubrovnik Croatia Workshop: Six Days, April 27 to May 3. For more info on Arles Workshop, please visit the website. For more info on Dubrovnik Workshop, please visit the website. |
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CINEMA MUNDI Exhibition featuring Stefano De Luigi Location: Paris, France Address: 12, rue Saint-Gilles, Paris. Exhibition Dates: March 11 to July 31. |
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MOVING WALLS 16 Exhibition featuring Benjamin Lowy and Stefano De Luigi Location: The Open Society Institute. Address: 400 W. 59th St., New York, NY., USA. Exhibition Dates: September 29, 2009 to May 21, 2010. |
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MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES 25th ANNIVERSARY Exhibition featuring Donald Weber Location: Various.View calendar. Address: Various. View calendar. Exhibition Dates: September 08, 2009 to May 24, 2010. |
| VIINETWORK RECENTLY PUBLISHED |
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| Enter The Quail by Seamus Murphy in Harper's |
The Rescue Brigade by Lynsey Addario for Time |
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| The Survivor
by Lynsey Addario for Time |
Retrospective by Stefano De Luigi in RVM |
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| How America Can Rise Again by Seamus Murphy in Atlantic |
The Hell Of PTSD by Ashley Gilbertson for Time |
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| Drame Dans, La Vallee D'Alasay by Eric Bouvet for Paris Match |
Paparazzi! by Jessica Dimmock in Witness |
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| Objects Identify Long-Dead Victims of Bosnian War | Carpet Culture | |
| by Ziyah Grafic as seen on www.time.com |
by Donald Weber | |
| Keys, watches, toothbrushes and others discovered in mass graves from the Bosnian conflict. View... | Carpet Culture offers a glimpse onto the red carpet during the Toronto International Film Festival . View... | |
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| Moby's "Wait for Me" Music Video | One Family, One Street | |
| by Jessica Dimmock as seen on www.nymag.com |
by Seamus Murphy as seen on www.globalpost.com | |
| Moby gave filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Mark Jackson $5,000 to do whatever they wanted for his new single "Wait for Me" off his new album. What they cam up with is lush, nauseating, and hard to look away from. View... | During the worst years of fighting in Kabul, Farhuddin Ba Deli's family lived on Stonecutter Street. View... |
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