"john robinson photojournalist" (by john robinson)

Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan "Give us an education" Rebbeca Akoi The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The students of rumbek, these students have been at war or at least affected by war. They could be orphens, they have run fromwar. For their age they should be in university, they are still working on their high school education... �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food

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Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan "Give us an education" Rebbeca Akoi The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The students of rumbek, these students have been at war or at least affected by war. They could be orphens, they have run fromwar. For their age they should be in university, they are still working on their high school education... �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food
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children's day care centre (creche) run by mcc/union of refugee woman durban south africa

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children's day care centre (creche) run by mcc/union of refugee woman durban south africa
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Beliel IDP Camp Nyala Janub Darfur Sudan Drawings in the sand, camels, ak47s and rpgs the stuff of a genocide. Members of the Dinka tribe draw in the sand images of the camels and weapons of the janjaweed milita, that raped, murdered and burned and their villages forsing them to leave and seek refuge in IDP camps across the Darfur region of Sudan. �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique arab african genocide janjaweed armed horsemen camels rpg ak47 rape murder Sudan drawings war art

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Beliel IDP Camp Nyala Janub Darfur Sudan Drawings in the sand, camels, ak47s and rpgs the stuff of a genocide. Members of the Dinka tribe draw in the sand images of the camels and weapons of the janjaweed milita, that raped, murdered and burned and their villages forsing them to leave and seek refuge in IDP camps across the Darfur region of Sudan. �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique arab african genocide janjaweed armed horsemen camels rpg ak47 rape murder Sudan drawings war art
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play therapy is used to assist children dealing with the loss of family members in the kwazulu-natal region of south africa. august 2006 copyright � john robinson/south photographs/rsbsc africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world

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play therapy is used to assist children dealing with the loss of family members in the kwazulu-natal region of south africa. august 2006 copyright � john robinson/south photographs/rsbsc africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world
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urban youth, programs, shelters a street child sleeps on a pavement in the durban innercity kwazulu-natal south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright � john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street

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urban youth, programs, shelters a street child sleeps on a pavement in the durban innercity kwazulu-natal south africa durban/pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa copyright � john robinson/south photographs africa afrika afrique people social documentary reportage majority world developing world third world children teens kids urban shelters street
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libres et justes (free and fair) party representatives and observers watch the counting of the presedential vote. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education

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libres et justes (free and fair) party representatives and observers watch the counting of the presedential vote. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
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brugara dance method school kids dance games alexandra township south africa �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature

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brugara dance method school kids dance games alexandra township south africa �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature
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libres et justes (free and fair) elegance and the ballot box, a woman places her choice. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education

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libres et justes (free and fair) elegance and the ballot box, a woman places her choice. the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
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a child from a community on the outskirts of maputo stands in front of disused housing - part of an old orphanage �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature mozambique development legal justice law gender housing social issues homeless

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a child from a community on the outskirts of maputo stands in front of disused housing - part of an old orphanage �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature mozambique development legal justice law gender housing social issues homeless
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libres et justes (free and fair) children playing football in the santuary of a kinshasa city compound the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education

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libres et justes (free and fair) children playing football in the santuary of a kinshasa city compound the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
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the karimojong people. iriiri town and surounding area north eastern uganda. the karimojong people are a cattle wealth based tribe. much depends on the availability of water and pasture for herds of cattle and goats in an area that is prone to drought. feuding over water and pasture has been an issue for many years between the karimojog clans and the iteso people in adjoining areas. �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature iteso karimojong lords resistance army lra rebel internially displaced people idp democracy elections multi party cattle cattle raiding herding goats graves child soldiers kidnaped children N.B. PLEASE USE DISCRETION IN THE PUBLICATION OF THESE IMAGES. UGANDA IS EMERGING FROM MANY YEARS OF INSTABILITY PLEASE CONSULT AUTHOR IF IN DOUBT.

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the karimojong people. iriiri town and surounding area north eastern uganda. the karimojong people are a cattle wealth based tribe. much depends on the availability of water and pasture for herds of cattle and goats in an area that is prone to drought. feuding over water and pasture has been an issue for many years between the karimojog clans and the iteso people in adjoining areas. �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique african people third world life portrait portray feature iteso karimojong lords resistance army lra rebel internially displaced people idp democracy elections multi party cattle cattle raiding herding goats graves child soldiers kidnaped children N.B. PLEASE USE DISCRETION IN THE PUBLICATION OF THESE IMAGES. UGANDA IS EMERGING FROM MANY YEARS OF INSTABILITY PLEASE CONSULT AUTHOR IF IN DOUBT.
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Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan The face of the choir master and the hands of the members of the choir. The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The Rumbek Peace Choir was formed out of five local choirs, each contributing a few members. "music is like a newspaper, through our music we communicate the message of peace" �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food

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Rumbek Al Buhayrat Sudan The New Sudan The face of the choir master and the hands of the members of the choir. The returned people, the war in the south of the Sudan has been around for 50 years. The Rumbek Peace Choir was formed out of five local choirs, each contributing a few members. "music is like a newspaper, through our music we communicate the message of peace" �John Robinson/MCC/South Photographs africa afrika afrique sudan The New Sudan war refugee refugees returned exiles exile education reconstruction villagers villager village food
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no space to breathe. mountain rise cemetery, january 2008 pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa. a young girl and flowers at the grave side of an elderly aunt. i have put this series of images together against the backdrop of living a city that seems to be dying all around me.Êsomething must be wrong when so many people are dead and buried, so close, so fast and so often. while i walked among the graves making these images i asked questions of family members; what happened? why are these people are dying? i was told that he were just old (thank god) others, well they were sick, or stabbed with a knife, she just died, and, well you know my friend these things just happen now. what ever the medical details might be in each case, i do know that many many people are dying and that mountain rise cemetery is often the place where the remains are interned. i walked around mountain rise cemetery with a camera noting down how the earth is dug up and the remains of loved ones are buried and how nature claims back the land as if it was never given out. if the simple wooden cross is not replaced by a solid stone marker in a year or so nothing remains of the grave bar a small cement brick with a grave number cast in it. i found the families of the departed open to me being there noting the state of the graves, whether they were in the process of burying or returning to the site to tend the grave of their mother. i stopped and talked to a young guy who had come to prepare a grave for his brother's daughter funeral and the title of this essay was handed to me on a plate, he spoke about how the ancestors were once buried next to the home and it was easy to communicate with the departed, there was plenty of space and the grave could be prepared in the proper manner, but with the situation in the townships there is no space to do this and so the municipal cemetery will have to do. i asked him where he wanted to be buried some day and he laughed and said not here, there is n

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no space to breathe. mountain rise cemetery, january 2008 pietermaritzburg kwazulu-natal south africa. a young girl and flowers at the grave side of an elderly aunt. i have put this series of images together against the backdrop of living a city that seems to be dying all around me.Êsomething must be wrong when so many people are dead and buried, so close, so fast and so often. while i walked among the graves making these images i asked questions of family members; what happened? why are these people are dying? i was told that he were just old (thank god) others, well they were sick, or stabbed with a knife, she just died, and, well you know my friend these things just happen now. what ever the medical details might be in each case, i do know that many many people are dying and that mountain rise cemetery is often the place where the remains are interned. i walked around mountain rise cemetery with a camera noting down how the earth is dug up and the remains of loved ones are buried and how nature claims back the land as if it was never given out. if the simple wooden cross is not replaced by a solid stone marker in a year or so nothing remains of the grave bar a small cement brick with a grave number cast in it. i found the families of the departed open to me being there noting the state of the graves, whether they were in the process of burying or returning to the site to tend the grave of their mother. i stopped and talked to a young guy who had come to prepare a grave for his brother's daughter funeral and the title of this essay was handed to me on a plate, he spoke about how the ancestors were once buried next to the home and it was easy to communicate with the departed, there was plenty of space and the grave could be prepared in the proper manner, but with the situation in the townships there is no space to do this and so the municipal cemetery will have to do. i asked him where he wanted to be buried some day and he laughed and said not here, there is n
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Jantique Mozambique Women using what ever they have at hand collect water from a water point and return to their husbands and children During and after the heavy rains in Southern Africa and Mozambique in February 2000, and the consequential flooding of the surrounding areas a severe shortage of drinking water prevailed in the emergency relief camps along the Limpopo River in Mozambique. Jantique is the name of a small stream flowing out of a catchment area a short distance from one of the emergency relief camps. Once this water was chlorinated it supplied drinking water to about 5000 people at the Samora Machel camp. �John Robinson/South Photographs mocambique water flood mother and child

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Jantique Mozambique Women using what ever they have at hand collect water from a water point and return to their husbands and children During and after the heavy rains in Southern Africa and Mozambique in February 2000, and the consequential flooding of the surrounding areas a severe shortage of drinking water prevailed in the emergency relief camps along the Limpopo River in Mozambique. Jantique is the name of a small stream flowing out of a catchment area a short distance from one of the emergency relief camps. Once this water was chlorinated it supplied drinking water to about 5000 people at the Samora Machel camp. �John Robinson/South Photographs mocambique water flood mother and child
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a child plays on her scooter in the old prison exercise yard. A old prison once derelict and abandoned is ironically now the home of about 12 Pietermaritzburg South Africa children. That some who are very young, some a little older some approaching their teens, all who should be within a family structure now call this place home is due to the Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is Duduza Home, �to comfort� in zulu the home language of these children. They come from the surrounding areas of KwaZulu-Natal�s capital city of Pietermaritzburg, an area that is also one of the epicentres of South Africa�s AIDS problem... �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique HIV causes AIDS children

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a child plays on her scooter in the old prison exercise yard. A old prison once derelict and abandoned is ironically now the home of about 12 Pietermaritzburg South Africa children. That some who are very young, some a little older some approaching their teens, all who should be within a family structure now call this place home is due to the Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is Duduza Home, �to comfort� in zulu the home language of these children. They come from the surrounding areas of KwaZulu-Natal�s capital city of Pietermaritzburg, an area that is also one of the epicentres of South Africa�s AIDS problem... �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique HIV causes AIDS children
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libres et justes (free and fair) congolese electorial law demands that party political posters must be removed from public space prior to the election day the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education

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libres et justes (free and fair) congolese electorial law demands that party political posters must be removed from public space prior to the election day the democratic republic of congo held the first round of elections (30 july 2006) in 45 years of the country's history. the electorate were asked to elect members of parliment and a president of state. these images are an edit from material produced for mcc and the ecc urgent peace project � john robinson/mcc/south photographs elections vote kinshasa democratic republic of congo republique democratique du congo mcc ecc urgent peace project africa afrique voters education
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Bamako Mali Two men on bicyles cross the Niger River carrying fodder into the city of Bamako the capital of Mali. �John Robinson/South Photographs fodder transport west africa roads

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Bamako Mali Two men on bicyles cross the Niger River carrying fodder into the city of Bamako the capital of Mali. �John Robinson/South Photographs fodder transport west africa roads
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visiting mom My mother spent most of her time sitting in her room sucking tea through a straw At the time when my mothers independence failed her, my daughter Erin's (1) was just developing. These seven images are aspects of an interaction between an old lady nearing the end of her life and a little girl who is only starting out on her's. We are all somewhere between these two points. These images were taken during family visits to the frail care centre where my mother spent the last few months of her life on this earth. �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique aged ageing disabled elderly frail

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visiting mom My mother spent most of her time sitting in her room sucking tea through a straw At the time when my mothers independence failed her, my daughter Erin's (1) was just developing. These seven images are aspects of an interaction between an old lady nearing the end of her life and a little girl who is only starting out on her's. We are all somewhere between these two points. These images were taken during family visits to the frail care centre where my mother spent the last few months of her life on this earth. �John Robinson/South Photographs africa afrika afrique aged ageing disabled elderly frail
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