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Spencer Platt |
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Opening Talk and Slideshow: |
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Statement: With assistance from the international NGO Doctors without Borders, I spent two weeks roaming the north of Central African Republic with cameras and a tape recorder. I visited isolated villages and towns that have become a fierce battle ground between government forces and a patchwork of rebel groups. The fighting has left thousands without homes and hundreds of others dead or missing. What I found in CAR was a world of terrified but proud people, a world that won’t make the nightly news but refuses to give into the bliss of ignorance.
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About the Photographer: Spencer Platt grew up in Westport, Connecticut. He attended Clark University graduating with a degree in English. After college he spent two years as a staff photographer at a small newspaper in New York state. While at the paper, Platt wrote and shot stories on the Gypsies in Romania and the Kurds in southern Turkey. During this time, Platt also won a number of awards, including Pictures of the Year (POY) and an Associated Press Award for coverage of the conflict in Albania. Since joining Getty Images in 2001 as a New York based staff photographer, his work has appeared frequently in such publications as Time, Newsweek, Stern, the Paris Match and the Los Angeles Times, among others. As a member of the Getty Images news wire service, he frequently covers stories Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. In 2006 Platt won numerous awards from both Photography of the Year (POY) and the NPPA Year in Pictures. Platt also won the coveted World Press Photo of the Year award for an image in taken in Beirut in 2006. Platt lives in Brooklyn, New York.
About the speaker: Nurse Johanne Sekkenes, RN, Director of Operational Support for MSF-USA, has worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 1994, when she was part of the medical program set up in Kuito, Angola to treat victims of that country’s civil war. Since then, Ms. Sekkenes has been involved in several of MSF’s humanitarian activities, including delivering medical aid in Angola, China, Congo-Brazzaville, Mozambique, and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), as well as working in the MSF office in Sweden. In 2005 Ms. Sekkenes worked as the head of mission for MSF’s programs in Niger, coordinating the organization’s response to the major nutritional crisis affecting tens of thousands of children in that country. Ms. Sekkenes most recent MSF assignment was this past summer, when she was field coordinator in the war-torn region of eastern Chad on the border with Sudan.
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The photography series is curated by Song Chong |
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King For further information on these exhibits, please go here.
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