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November 30, 2004 - January 11, 2005. |
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Artist Statement In early 2003 Ethnic African Sudanese rebels calling themselves the Sudan Liberation Army attacked an outpost of the Arab Sudanese government in a protest over the mistreatment and neglect in the Darfur region of Western Sudan. In response the Sudan government armed, funded, and mobilized Arab "self-defence militias," which are accused of carrying out atrocities against local black Africans. As the violence grew, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled across the border into neighboring Chad, a long and arduous trek from a region three times the size of France. A massive humanitarian disaster, not seen on the worldwide stage since the genocide in Rwanda began to develop while the world's attention was focused on the events in Iraq and the Middle East. Up until now 70 thousand have been killed and millions displaced.
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After traveling to the Concentration camps in Germany and Poland this summer, I decided that I needed to see, to experience what a "genocide" was. What it looked like, and what it meant to be part of a world that let it happen. I was 15 when the events in Rwanda took place, and they barely impacted my life, because no one in our school system really cared enough to make it a point.So I went to Darfur to understand, and to see. I spent half my time split between the UNHCR refugee camps along the massive border of Chad and Sudan, and half my time inside Darfur with the SLA - going from town to burnt town, mass grave to battle site. This is what I saw.
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Artist Bio Benjamin Lowy (b.1979) New York-based Lowy has covered such major stories as the Washington DC sniper case and the ongoing conflicts in Israel, Iraq and Haiti. He has been on assignment for Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic Adventure magazines and his work has also appeared in Stern, CNN, WCBS, PBS, as well as in numerous books. He recently completed the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. |
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The photography series is curated by James Price and Anna Van Lenten
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King
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