Photography as Advocacy?
The Rape of a Nation:
Natural Resource Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Monday, May 15, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Reception to follow.
Peace remains elusive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the West’s desire for minerals and gems continues to fuel conflict over control of natural resources. By exploring the lives of miners and their surrounding community in resource-rich eastern Congo, Marcus Bleasdale’s photographs depict mining’s devastating consequences.
Please join us for a discussion about natural resource exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, part of the ongoing Photography as Advocacy? series presented by the Open Society Institute, which explores how photography can be used to shape public policy and perception and to effect social change.
Susan Meiselas will moderate a discussion with:
Marcus Bleasdale, photographer
Carroll Bogert, associate director, Human Rights Watch
RSVP to Yukiko Yamagata at docphoto@sorosny.org or (212) 548-0369.
Open Society Institute,
400 West 59th Street, 3rd Floor
(between 9th and 10th Avenues)
New York City
Marcus Bleasdale has spent six years photographing the conflict within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The resulting work, published as One Hundred Years of Darkness, was recognized as one of the best photojournalism books of 2002 by Photo District News. Bleasdale has received numerous awards, including Picture of the Year, UNICEF Photographer of the Year, and the World Press Daily Life Award. He has received grants from the Alexia Foundation, 3P Association, and the Open Society Institute (for his work with Human Rights Watch).
Bleasdale’s work is currently on display at the Open Society Institute as part of the Moving Walls 11 photography exhibition. For more information, please visit www.movingwalls.org.
Carroll Bogert is the associate director of Human Rights Watch, where she has worked since 1998. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Bogert spent more than a decade in international news reporting, covering a wide array of topics for Newsweek. She frequently publishes op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and the New Republic. Her commentaries have also aired on National Public Radio.
Susan Meiselas has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. Her coverage of the insurrections in Central America and human rights abuses have been published in the New York Times Magazine, the London Times, Time, and GEO, among others. She is the author of Nicaragua, and editor of several collections, including El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers, Chile from Within, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, and Encounters with the Dani. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Leica Award for Excellence, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the Hasselblad Foundation Prize. In 1992, Meiselas was made a MacArthur Fellow.
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