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Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category
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Photo/graphica
In recent years the graphic novel has morphed into an alternative medium for non-fiction storytelling. From Art Spiegelman’s Maus which documented his father’s experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis which details the author’s life…
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Book Review: A Season In Hell
Held captive by al-Qaeda for 130 days in the unforgiving Malian desert, not knowing whether each day would be his last, Robert Fowler says it was the idea of writing a book about his ordeal that gave him the hope…
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They were firing at me with their eyes
The thick charcoal around the woman’s eyes does little to mask the contempt she seems to feel for the photographer.
She stares directly at the camera, defiant, with a subtle scowl etched into her symmetrically-tattooed face.
The featureless white wall…
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Mali: It’s hard to convince people to put blood and treasure on the line
Even as Canada extends its commitment of a C-17 transport plane to war-torn Mali in mid-March, a former Canadian diplomat warns our nation is repeating the same mistake it made during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Robert Fowler, who was held…
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Children Of The Snow
More than 20 Somali youths have been murdered in the last three years across Canada. Unable to assimilate into Canadian culture, unable to find work, many have become involved in drugs and criminal activity. But community groups in Ottawa, buoyed…
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Picturing inequality
Today I spoke to CBC’s Robyn Bresnahan about how I came to take the photograph that won the Africa category in the World Bank’s international Picture Inequality photo competition. The picture shows female former child soldier Christine waiting to get…
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Penis captivus
Damn, it felt good to get out of the city.
Steven Zhou watched the Malawian savannah scream by in a viridian blur as the car hurtled southeast out of the capital. Lilongwe was left behind in a billowing mushroom cloud…
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Corrugated ribs
The young toddler hunches over in the baked dirt in mock-genuflection, the Sudanese sun silhouettes the child’s corrugated ribs. A vulture stands behind, nature’s Grim Reaper, seemingly waiting for the child to die.
Kevin Carter, a member of the infamous…
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Photography: Committing Soft Murder?
The paparazzi aren’t a modern pest, nor do they solely prey on the Justin Bieber’s and Lady Diana’s of our world.
At least that’s what Susan Sontag, famed writer and filmmaker, would have you believe in her 1977 collection of…
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It’s not about guns – it’s about educating people
David Lomeling used to be a child soldier in South Sudan’s SPLA – then he became a journalist.
In the summer of 2012, as I taught a hands-on photojournalism course to reporters at Radio Miraya in South Sudan, David told…
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People are literally dying trying to get here
This piece was featured in The Toronto Star on 13 October 2012.
Below is an early draft that includes a bit more info than the Star’s edited version.
MABAN COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN – Syrupy mud claws at…
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The Hygiene Song
In writing an article about my experiences in South Sudan’s Yusuf Batil refugee camp (thankfully made possible by the wonderful folks at Radio Miraya and UNHCR), I came across this wonderful nugget.
In one of the makeshift schools in the…
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Scanoramas
One upside to temporary unemployment is that you have a chance to (a) finally reflect on recent African adventures, and (b) find the time to muck around with some new multimedia skills.
One of the most memorable experiences of my…
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New beginnings
Featured in Toronto Star, 8 September 2012.
In the summer of 2011 Vancouver-based photojournalist Marc Ellison interviewed 40 formerly abducted women in Uganda about their post-abduction difficulties. As a part of the project, Ellison gave five of the women digital…
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Let them come out
Colonel Joseph Balikuddembe is not a man to be envied.
But for a man charged with hunting down one of Africa’s most wanted, the Lord Resistance Army’s Joseph Kony, the Ugandan colonel seems disconcertingly at ease. He sits under a…