Sarah Leen is a member of the editorial board of the 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award dedicated this year to the war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil.
Sarah who will serve as a photo editor of the book and FotoEvidence call Ukrainian, international photographers and citizen journalists to contribute photo-evidence and testimonies from their experience covering the war in Ukraine.
It is crucial to build a written and visual archive of this war as an historical record for future generations as evidence of the violence of war and the crimes committed in Ukraine.
Be part of this historical book.
To send your work: http://www.fotoevidence.com
DEADLINE- DECEMBER 1ST 2022
The 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award is supported by the #OpenSocietyFoundations
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyukuk is a member of the editorial board of the 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award dedicated this year to the war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil.
Maxim and FotoEvidence call Ukrainian, international photographers and citizen journalists to contribute photo-evidence and testimonies from their experience covering the war in Ukraine.
It is crucial to build a written and visual archive of this war as an historical record for future generations as evidence of the violence of war and the crimes committed in Ukraine.
Be part of this historical book.
To send your work use the link in bio or write Svetlana at fotoevidence dot com.
DEADLINE- DECEMBER 1ST 2022
The 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award is supported by the Open Society Foundations
To learn more and submit your work from Ukraine: https://fotoevidence.com/book-award
WHAT IS A WAR CRIME? A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by the combatants, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, the conscription of children in the military, committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, and flouting the lega distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
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A 1min glimpse inside The Phoenician Collapse, the new book by Diego Ibarra Sanchez, about his six years journay in Lebanon, a tale of a crisis within a crisis to create a visual testament to the memory of the twilight of a glorious nation.
The book includes photographs, personal notes and artifacts from the glory times of the Phoenician to its fall.
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Available from the link in bio and Diego's web site.
This week, The VII Foundation (@viifoundation) is taking over @fotoevidencepressnyc to share our 3-year reporting project, “Imagine: Reflections on Peace.” Featuring contributions from 30 writers, policy-makers, photographers, and many others, our book shows how peace is actually lived on the ground and inside communities that are rebuilding after years of conflict. Over the course of the next few days, we’ll introduce you to some of their work; for now, here’s a taste of “Imagine: Reflections on Peace.” Find out more online at reflectionsonpeace.org.
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"My friends asked me to write a poem about love. I told them I haven’t fallen in love but I will do one for them. They teased me after, saying that Syria is always on my mind":
My love for you equals the number of tanks in Syria,
My love for you equals the number of mothers’ hearts Bashar has shattered,
My love for you is till the death.
Love in the way of war.
Haven’t you figured it out by now?
That your lion is nothing but a panicked cat.
-Hala. A divorcee at 18, after only twenty-five days of marriage, Hala was forced to marry her abusive cousin after her father was killed in their hometown of Daraa. A few years later in Jordan, she married again, to help her family. That marriage lasted a few weeks before she was so badly beaten she returned to the “martyr’s wive” apartment her mother and sisters found refuge in. She writes poetry and secretly accesses the outside world and inspiration through the internet on her hidden cell phone. Hala became a muse to us during the five years we met with her, eagerly using the curtains as a stage and acting out her stories. This is part of my ( @habjouqa ) Tomorrow there will be Apricots. Five years in the lives of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Five years in the lives of
Syrian women in Jordan (2012-2017))
Video clip from interactive touch screen installation: In 2013, Um Salim shared a mobile phone image of her martyred FSA husband. She received the news of his death by text while about to deliver her baby and caring for two traumatized teenage daughters. She did not see his body, only a gruesome image of his dead body in a funeral shroud. She had received this romantic image from her husband just weeks before his death, and framed it with reverential words of his martyrdom, now a digital memorial. When he was alive, he would send sultry texts, poems, and images from the front lines. Today she is living in a martyrs’ wives building in Ramtha, Jordan.
Syrian refugees in Jordan live both in designated camps and in the cities, in whatever housing their means will allow. For the women in this chapter, who have lost their husbands to a war for a country to which they cannot return, home is now the martyrs’ wives buildings.
The six-floor concrete apartment building, where we met the women photographed here, has a cloth banner imprinted with the words “martyrs’ wives” hung from its roof. The identification leaves the residents exposed and vulnerable, even when intentions are good. In the first year, men approached the apartments asking if the women were available for fun or for marriage; others asked about their daughters. To protect their young girls, many mothers forbid them from attending school after puberty, leaving their daughters trapped, day in and day out, inside rooms with windows framed by ugly curtains.
Wanting to share their experiences but also remain anonymous, the women repurposed these very draperies, using them to perform their stories for the camera while hiding their faces.
This interactive documentary series explores three distinct chapters of the Syrian civil war’s effect on civilians. Contact @habjouqa to access the interactive si
Printing the book Habibi
Printing a book during the time of corona virus is not an easy task. After two printing houses in Italy canceled the printing of Habibi by Antonio Faccilongo, because they fell into the contaminated with virus area. We are finally printing the book at Ofset Yapiemvi in Istanbul. The book launch at the World Press Photo festival was just canceled but the book could be found at the FotoEvidence book store on line. Habibi!
Habibi, by Antonio Faccilongo is the recipient of the 2020 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo. The book is published by FotoEvidence and available at our bookstore online: http://fotoevidence.com/book/44/hard-copy
