haiti aftermath portfolio

The central theme of this project, ‘Haiti Aftermath’, focuses on the massive earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 and its consequences. A precise count and identification of the victims is difficult due to the enormous devastation. The number of victims can only be estimated, and the government assumes a death toll of around 300,000 people, with more than three million affected by the quake.

darfur / chad – a silent genocide

What does the massacre of an entire population look like? How do you explain to traumatized Sudanese women queuing with their undernourished children in a Darfur refugee camp that there is a difference between “acts of genocide” and actual genocide?

kashmir

On October 8th, 2005, just before nine in the morning, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir along the border of Pakistan and India.  The quake claimed 75,000 lives, and left homeless an estimated 3.3 million.

the boys from hebron

“I can remember how confused I was.  I didn’t know what I should feel--anger, sorrow.  I had all the feelings a person can have.” said Aaron after his class trip to Poland, to visit Birkenau.  He is a student at the Jewish fundamentalist high school, yeshiva “er Menachem”, located in the fanatical West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.  Aaron’s classmates hail from the occupied areas, Israel and from diaspora as far away as the United States.  Students are sent to er Menachem, where some teachers lecture armed behind bullet-proof windows, to learn a fundamentalist interpretation of the Torah...

the boys from ramallah

In the year 2000, one symbolic act precipitated the loss all hope for sustained peace between Israel and an autonomous Palestine.  Ariel Sharon walked into the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—once the location of the great Jewish Temple of Solomon, and now home to two of Islam’s most sacred sites, the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque. In reaction, the Palestinians in Ramallah took to the streets for months, calling the war the Second Intifada. During this period, boys went to the front lines at the Hotel City Inn to throw stones, and afterwards returned home to eat dinner with their mothers and fathers.