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
Tag: Vlad Sokhin
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Photojournalist Aims to Expose the Brutal Violence Against Papua New Guinea Women in ‘Crying Meri’
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 two years Russian photojournalist Vlad Sokhin has been working on a powerful photo project, Crying Meri, to expose the heartbreaking and brutal violence against women in Papua New Guinea
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A Photographer, A Fixer, the New York Times and Child Servitude in Haiti: A Story Gone Haywire, then Simply Gone
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 and the issues involved when the American media market trains a lens
The day after the Lens post appeared, the “English teacher” identified in the post, Lesli Petit-Phar, posted an open letter on another photographer’s Facebook thread. In it, Petit-Phar acknowledged his role as the guardian of Judeline, but professed shock and outrage upon seeing himself portrayed as the slave master of Judeline
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Vlad Sokhin Violence against women
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.
