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CINEMA, HUMAN RIGHTS & ADVOCACY SUMMER SCHOOL JULY 1-8, 2011 | NUI GALWAY
The Irish Centre for Human Rights and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media will hold a Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy. Internationally acclaimed experts in film, television, photography and human rights will host a range of teaching modules, engaging workshops and illustrative film screenings. Over the course of the week, participants are afforded the opportunity to share and develop their ideas, engage with and understand the perspectives of others, increase their awareness of sensitive human rights issues, network with practitioners and academics from all over the world and learn how they themselves can contribute to the field of human rights through the medium of film.
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ONZE FEMMES face a la guerre : Le parvis de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris, 16 au 27 novembre, 2011.
Que sont devenues les onze femmes que Nick Danziger avait photographiées en 2001 pour illustrer une étude du Comité internationale de la Croix Rouge (CICR) sur la situation et les besoins particuliers des femmes en période de conflit armé ?
Dix ans après, l'exposition et l'ouvrage Onze femmes face à la guerre raconte à travers elles la décennie écoulée. Onze destins, onze regards d'Afghanistan, de Sierra Leone, de Colombie, de Bosnie-Herzégovine, du Kosovo, d'Israël et de Palestine.
Grâce à la mobilisation des antennes locales du Mouvement Croix-Rouge et d’autres organisations internationales, il a retrouvé la trace de ces femmes et les a re-photographiées dans leur quotidien d’aujourd’hui. Pour certaines, la situation a peu évolué tandis que d’autres se reconstruisent et mènent à présent une vie normale, loin des turpitudes qu’elles ont dû subir.
Onze femmes face a la guerre a photographic book from Nick Danziger is also available with text by Frédéric Joli
REVISITED : Royal Geographical Society, London, 26 November, 2011 - 10 January, 2012
Shot across 8 countries on 4 continents Nick Danziger returns to the same people he photographed 5 years ago to see how the United Nations Millennium Development Goals are transforming their lives.
REVISITED : A talk at the Royal Geographical Society, London, 9 January, 2012
The exhibition is the result of work commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross portrays 15 families who lost relatives during the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia.. Since 1991, the ICRC has been asked by families to trace 34,278 missing men and women from the wars between 1991-1995. The remains of half of them have now been found and identified often through DNA testing, the first time this groundbreaking technique was used in the aftermath of a major conflict.
The exhibition has been on show in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Pristina, Mostar, Strasbourg, Banja Luka, Brussels and Zagreb.
Missing Lives, a photographic book from Nick Danziger is also available with text by best-selling author Rory MacLean.
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: A Journey through Christian Ethiopia
Nick's exhibition, Between Heaven and Earth, was shown in the Ethiopian capital in December 2010 at the National Gallery in Addis Ababa. In 2011 it will tour to Bahir Dar, Axum, Gonder and Lalibela.
Commissioned by the British Council, the 31 stunning photographs are a remarkable window into the life of Ethiopia's little-known Tewahedo Orthodox hristian Church, one of the oldest surviving Christian communities in the world.
For the project, Nick travelled several thousand kilometres across Ethiopia's central highlands capturing the Church's breathtaking antiquity and shedding light on an ancient culture facing new challenges.