Ben Kilb
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Ben Kilb was born in Frankfurt/Germany on February 23/1982. He started journalism at the age of 21 by working for six months as a freelance writer and photographer for a local newspaper close to his hometown Schmitten. After finishing his one-year civil service in Great Barrington, Massachusetts/USA, in 2004, he did an internship at the German office of the music magazine Rolling Stone in Munich and at the German office of the news agency The Associated Press in Frankfurt. In between, he kept on reporting for local newspapers.
In 2006, he started covering news events as a photographer for the photo agency Inside Picture, besides that he worked on his own journalistic projects. In 2008, he was assigned by the photo agency Action Press and by the Frankfurter Neue Presse, a daily newspaper, for which he worked as a writer and photographer until April 2010. Since June 2010 he works on his own journalistic long-term projects and as a freelance photographer for the New York Times, at least every now and then. Besides that he works as a freelance writer for the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz.
Personal website: www.benkilb.com
Castor transport
my short photo essay is a series about the protest against the Castor transport of nuclear waste in Lower Saxony/Germany in early November 2010. For three days people were demonstrating and blocking rails to keep the train carrying the waste from reaching its destination, the permanent disposal site in Gorleben. In the end the transport was delayed by almost one day.
I usually work as a photojournalist, but this time I went without assignment and completely ignored the conventional journalistic value of my photos. I wanted to see how my photos appeared without any primary intention to report. I shot, more or less, just for me and used this approach to deepen my photographic language. I wanted to feel more as a protester than a journalist.
It resulted partially in my images looking like shots about some post-apocalyptic scenario and not like photos about a protest.
Posted on: February 21st, 2011 by admin
Rahman Roslan
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Rahman is based in Kuala Lumpur and his major interests are social and humanity photography. His work possesses sensitive and cognitive styles. He is one of a few young and emerging Asian photographers who has been chosen to attend the prestigious free workshops at the Angkor Photography Festival . His work has been published extensively, including in Reuters, Agence French Press, European Press Agency, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Ojodepez, The National UAE, TIME magazine, TIME.com, La Repubblica, China Daily, The New Internationalist, Berita Harian Singapore and Strait Times Singapore. In his personal capacity , he is currently investigating the impact of urbanisation on South East Asia’s communities and the placement of private spaces.
Nur
This project is about an Indonesian migrant worker who has been abused for 5 years during her stay in Malaysia. Her name is Nur.
Nur migrated to Malaysia November 2010 after an agent in Indonesia offered her a job for a promised monthly salary of RM400. All the documentation and process required will be managed by the agent, which the costs will then reimbursed by her first 4 months salary in Malaysia. Without signing any agreement and undergoing any training which is compulsory for Indonesian migrant worker who wants to works abroad, Nur has agreed to the offer.
Nur arrived in Malaysia by the sea and on arriving, she was picked by an outsourcing agency in Kepong. When asked by the agent who was in charge, Nur said that she wanted to work in Malaysia for 2 years. She was assigned to a Chinese family in Rawang, and her passport has been kept by the agency.
This is where her nightmare begins. She is demand to work from 7am until 11 at night daily performing all sort of house chores. Through out the whole ordeal, they had never paid her salary, denied her freedom to keep in contact with her family, and they restrict her movement. (more…)
Posted on: January 25th, 2011 by admin
Guillaume Poli
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Guillaume Poli has been a freelance photographer for six years and collaborates with news agencies. He favors a long term approach with a social bias. Here, he offers us an insight on his pending coverage of migrants transiting towards England.
Calais : The African Migrants House (2010)
The numbers of migrants passing through Calais, France has been increasing since 2002 to a thousand. In the year 2009, with the Jungles being destroyed, the situation became tougher. Lately, another unsetting signal arose in june 2010 with one of the last visible squats in downtown Calais being evacuated.
Informal dwellings are refugees’ fate. Spending one night in an entrance hall or a longer period in a derelict flat, migrants must remain unseen in order to survive in Calais. As the saying goes, “In order to live (almost) happily, live discreetly”.
April of 2010. These are the very last moments at African House, a former sawmill, haven to about forty migrants from Eastern Africa, most of them Sudanese driven out of the Darfour area by the war.
What struck me most was an encounter with two migrants I met on their wandering. Habib, a young Tadjik from Panchir, arrived in France after traveling through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France. He lives alone in a derelict flat in downtown Calais. Mohammed is a Sudanese from Darfour. I spent several days with him, he eventually achieved his aim and reached England.
Posted on: November 18th, 2010 by admin
Gianni Giosue
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Gianni Giosue is based in Tokyo and covers social issues in Asia. He likes experimenting with light and let the magic happen. He was worked with several NGOs in Afghanistan and India and is ready to travel anytime, anywhere.
The activity of JKSMS in Jaipur, India
Jan kala Sahitya Manch Sanshta (JKSMS) is a non-political, non-profit and non- governmental organization involved in social work for the development, rehabilitation and protection of children and women. I mostly focused on the homeless children and (more…)
Posted on: May 10th, 2010 by admin
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