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Light
Magnum Photos
One of the most impressive documentary film shootings for me was at the agency MAGNUM PHOTOS in Paris in 1998. Photographs I have seen a thousand times were on the table in it’s original form as photographic negatives. In every little angle in this kingdom of pictures I could feel the energy of Capa and Cartier-Bresson and all the others. One day we were invited by HCB for lunch. I remember a light flooded apartment above the Tuilleries gardens and a little old man asking me to sit next to him. He was one of the most funny and at the same time decent hosts I ever met. Finally he gave me a little buddhist book and told me to read it over and over again. What I still do, until today. “Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Portrait
Bhutan
Chad
These pictures were drawn by children in a refugee camp in 2005. They flew from Darfur / Sudan into Chad and found a place in Bredjing. Unfortunately most of the families are still living here. And don’t see any chance of going back to their villages because of ongoing ethnical clashes. links: Shadows of Fate – a refugee childhood Shake hands with the devil – Romeo Dallaire The Silence – Gilles Peress