Everything has the right to be put in the picture. This is the “democratic vision” Christian Werner applies to his photographic work. His recently-published photo book brings together well-known faces, anonymous portraits, landscapes, animals and urban spaces.
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Christian Werner – 74: The Yazidis’ Plight | LensCulture
74: The Yazidis’ Plight – Photographs and text by Christian Werner | LensCulture
Threatened by genocidal violence from the Islamic State, the Yazidi people are desperately struggling not just for their religious identity—but their very existence
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/christian-werner-74-the-yazidis-plight
Christian Werner is one of the 50 best emerging photographers for 2015, as voted by the eight-member international jury for the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2015
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Burned-out buses, unexploded missiles: a photographer on the road through Syria. – The Washington Post
Perspective | Burned-out buses, unexploded missiles: a photographer on the road through Syria.
Photographer Christian Werner and reporter Fritz Schaap drove the route in Syria that took them through the three largest cities, Aleppo, Latakia and Homs.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/07/18/the-road-through-syria/
“We wanted to understand who is really ruling the country now, to see if there will be a chance of reconciliation in the close future,” photographer Christian Werner told In Sight. He and reporter Fritz Schaap drove the route in Syria that took them through the three largest cities, Aleppo, Latakia and Homs. In a two-part essay for Der Spiegel, Schapp described part of their route, which Werner’s photos echo. “Burned-out military vehicles and buses line the route while unexploded missiles jut from the brown, barren soil like cactuses.”
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Christian Werner – 74 « burn magazine
Christian Werner – 74
Christian Werner74The Yezidi religion is one of the oldest. Since its founding years 74 genocides committed against them. The youngest and most systematic done by the IS terrorist militia. The Yazi…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/09/christian-werner-74/
The Yezidi religion is one of the oldest. Since its founding years 74 genocides committed against them. The youngest and most systematic done by the IS terrorist militia. The Yazidis are more persecuted than other religious communities, because they are regarded as devil worshipers. This is because they believe in Tausi Melek, a fallen angel in the form of a peacock. Since the invasion of the IS terrorist militia in Iraq, hundreds of thousands Yazidis were uprooted and are on the run
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Christian Werner in Iraq: Photographer Investigates a Health Crisis
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/05/12/iraq-health-crisis/#1
German photojournalist Christian Werner witnessed four of those burials during his first trip to Iraq. He was there to document what some believe may be the effects of contamination from metals in munitions fired during the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, namely depleted uranium