the rush - the waiting - the newborn Europeans
2016
by Thomas de Wouters
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About the Book
Here, the instantaneousness of the picture plunges the public into the reality of the social outcasts of the Ukrainian revolution in Luhansk, not far from the Russian border.
Luhansk, as also Donetsk, is one of these self-proclaimed republics of the Ukraine, in conflict since May 2014. But unlike Donetsk, Luhansk has no “press-marketing”, no infrastructure, no central authority and an even more tragic humanitarian situation which nobody talks about.
In Donetsk, fighting is mainly concentrated around the airport, whereas the fighting frontline has extended over the entire republic of Luhansk, destroying villages and industries and leaving the population dormant. These social outcasts… families doomed by the conflict to manage as they can, mad people afflicted today more than previously, orphans without a future and elderly people without appeasement in their old age. Two million people stuck between a porous Russian border and a frontline which ignores a real cease-fire. No more food in the shops, Russian humanitarian aid obtainable via black market rather distributed to the needy, lack of medicine which MSF try desperately to dispatch, the only NGO in this oblast.
The aim of this report is to show their daily life in the madness of this deadly war, to show the courage and handling of those who have remained in order to help, without any financial support from Kiev since the secession.
Photographs which show the hardness of their lives, with however a respectful sensibility for these men and women standing in front of my camera.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
# of Pages: 92 - Publish Date: Sep 30, 2016
- Language English
- Keywords migrants, refugees, humanitariancrisis, socialphotography, photojournalism
About the Creator
I am a Belgian photographer born in 1969. Former engineer, I am a self taught photographer. I started a new life and photography at over 40... because I wish I had seven lives. The choice of film photography for my work, more than a technical choice, is connected to my relation to time. With a film limited to 36 views every image is dear. Taking time becomes my ally, even in the instantaneousness of photojournalism or streetphotography. To bear witness to a life, sometimes hard, sometimes light, without ever losing the accurate framework which will reveal the emotion of an instant without distorting it by an artificial construction. A clear, direct shooting, a natural art and yet a quest for the beautiful beyond the reality sometimes unbearable offered to my camera My photographic writing is inscribed in a social research as much as an artistic research.