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Month: December 2018

Background story: growing up in the refugee camps of Lebanon

21 December 2018
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  • Sabra and Shatila refugee camp. Home of massacres in the past. Now a barren place to live. Only a few miles from downtown Beirut
  • Living conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps are bad. Houses are poorly maintained. Armed violence is day to day business in the camps
  • Young children are influenced by the arms they see around them
  • Children have little place to play in camps like Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss. All are located in the south of Lebanon, not far from the border Israelian border
  • Next to Palestinians, Syrians now find a temporary home in Lebanon's refugee camps
  • In Safe Spaces children find a way to release stress and tension by dance and theatre performances
  • Dutch NGO War Child organises these activities in close cooperation with local partner organisations
  • By drawing and writing children and young people have an outlet to cope with their experiences and find a way to temporarily escape the daily pressure they live under
  • War Child founder Willemijn Verloop visits a creative workshop in Ein el Helweh, one of the most overcrowded refugee camps of Lebanon
  • Dutch singer Marco Borsato is War Child's goodwill ambassador. In one of the countless alleyways of the Sabra and Shatila camp he experiences the physical limitations of living in a refugee camps
  • Sports is an essential tool for children to learn to deal with violent experiences, to gain trust again and to learn how to cooperate

Reportage of children living in the Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss refugee camps of Lebanon

Project info: Hundreds of thousands Palestinian refugees live in refugee camps in South Lebanon. Ein el Helweh, Rashidieh and El Buss have been the makeshift home of generations of Palestinians who have fled the violence in Gaza and the West Bank. In 2010 and 2012 I visited the camps in Lebanon to document the lives of children living in these dire conditions.

Together with founder of the Dutch NGO War Child Holland and its goodwill ambassador Marco Borsato I interviewed and portrayed children and their parents. The pictures, reportages, background stories and video reports have been and are still used in War Child’s printed media, website, social media and advocacy reports.

 
Client: War Child
 
Media: Photography
 
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Background story: Los Valientes/the braves

21 December 2018
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Five brave, aspiring photojournalist from Latin America face major challenges expressing their opinions. Prejudice, intimidation, violence, it's part of their daily job in Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador.

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Project info: Five brave, aspiring photojournalists from Latin America face major challenges expressing their opinions. Prejudice, intimidation, violence, it’s part of their daily job in Mexico, Venezuela and El Salvador. This long scroll honours these young professional photographers and video reporters.

 
Client: RNW Media

 
Media: Photography, webdesign
 


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New York Subway Conductors by Janus van den Eijnden

12 December 2018
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12-12-2018
The enviable portrait series by Dutch photographer Janus van den Eijnden. Depicting New York subway conductors.





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