Link: the women of PNG are also beset by domestic violence and sexual assault at rates that are inconceivable; more than two thirds of women suffer horrific abuse at the hands of their men and many are left disfigured after being attacked with knives and axes
Photojournalist Aims to Expose the Brutal Violence Against Papua New Guinea Women in ‘Crying Meri’ – Feature Shoot A woman looks down the valley from Kassam pass, Morobe province. The beautiful landscape of PNG’s highlands belies the brutal reality of life in the region, where more than 90%… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/03/crying-meri-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crying-meri-video#!yo11c For the past…
A Photographer, A Fixer, the New York Times and Child Servitude in Haiti: A Story Gone Haywire, then Simply Gone – Reading The Pictures A post about child servitude in Haiti, deleted from the New York Times Lens Blog, serves as the basis for questions about the ethics of photojournalism, the practice of online journalism…
Link: Vlad Sokhin’s Photos of Haiti’s Child Servants – NYTimes.com Taken by the photographer Vlad Sokhin for a series called “Restavek: Child Slavery in Haiti,’’ it is one of the most haunting images (Slide 4) of a Haitian servant child that I have ever seen.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Crying Meri | Violence against women in Papua New Guinea is a finalist award in this year’s 2012 Fotoevidence Bookawards. The FotoEvidence Book Award recognises photo projects documenting the evidence of violations of human rights.
