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Masaru Goto

Masaru Goto

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Profession: Photojournalist
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Home base: Bangkok, Thailand
URL: http://masarugoto.com
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Languages spoken: Japanese, English, Khmer, Spanish
Organization: Reminders Project
Journal: http://blog.drecom.jp/oiga/
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Last login: 22 days ago
Member since: 16 Jul 2005 19:07

About

MASARU GOTO has 19 years experience photographing social and human rights issues in Southeast Asia and South America. Masaru’s photographs convey a strong message of compassion; highlighting the plight and resilience of ordinary people who are caught in conflicts, suffering under oppression or economically disadvantaged.

In 2002, Masaru won the prestigious Fifty Crows Foundation award for Documentary Photography for his photos essay on Human Rights in Colombia “got rights? Human Rights in Colombia”. His photography books include “My Journal of Cambodia 1997-1998” is a powerful photographic essay about the final years of civil war waged by the Khmer Rouge and “Smile in Despair: Stories from a Cambodian AIDS ward” is about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Cambodia.


Masaru has vast experience photographing refugees and civilians affected by political upheaval. His work in Kashmir documented family impact by the Indian-led militarization; his photographs from Aceh, a part of Indonesia, were commissioned by Terre des hommes (TDH) Germany and Asian Forum for Human rights and Development (Forum Asia), a regional human rights organization and for an International information campaign. Most recently, Masaru has been working in Southern Thailand in Muslim communities affected by the outbreak of violence that erupted earlier this year. And he had currently finished in book project in collaboration with Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) about the refugees along Thai-Burmese border. Masaru immerses himself in long -term documentary project; spending time with the people in his images and sharing their sense of humanity. For the past four years, Masaru has devoted himself to a work-in -progress on the AIDS crisis in Cambodia. His photos portray the stigma and abandonment experienced by many people living with HIV/AIDS and their families. This work presented at the Bangkok International AIDS conference in July 2004.


And 2004, Masaru’s images of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia won two of the category, "LOVE" and "ILLNESS" for "the River of Life" World Health Organization (WHO) photo competition. Masaru strongly believes in sharing his photographs with NGO’s and civil society groups for advocacy and information campaigns on the issues he passionately examines in his work. He has participated in numerous campaigns on human right and social issues.

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New Photo Story Uploaded "Invisible Victims: Sri Lankan War Scars" Masaru Goto

I just uploaded a new photo story to my website.
The story is about Sri Lankan War Scars.

http://www.masarugoto.com/

Please visit my site then click on
‘Invisible Victims: Sri Lankan War Scars’ at PORTFOLIO.
To see captions, please mouse over IMAGE INFO at bottom right.

A summery is below.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Masaru
-———————-Summery——————————

- Invisible Victims: Sri Lankan War Scars -

“My husband disappeared 25 years ago. Nobody thinks he is still alive, but I do. War is over now, but my war is not over yet, not until he comes back to our home ”
-A woman in Central Sri Lanka- 

One of Asia’s longest civil war ended in May, 2009, after a massive offensive by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north of the country. Over 25 years, 80,000 people were killed and thousands more disappeared.

War is over, but there are unknown numbers of war wounded, widows, orphans and war-affected children living silently all over the country. Since the Sri Lankan government has not allowed most foreign journalists or NGOs into the country to see the war or its aftermath, victims become invisible to the rest of the world and they suffer their war scars alone.

Masaru Goto/July 2009

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Guevara New York-Creative Media Agency

09 Jul 2009 06:07 | 0 replies

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