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Teun Voeten |
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Afghanistan Embedded |
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Opening night, Monday April 17th 2006 On Display |
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While the war in Iraq is still front page news, the ongoing US military intervention in Afghanistan seems to become a forgotten war. Vanity Fair writer Sebastian Junger and photographer Teun Voeten went last December 2005 to Afghanistan and spend two weeks embedded with "Battle Company". This US army unit is carrying out operations in the unruly Zabul province, where remnants of the Taliban regime are still wreaking havoc. Teun Voeten will exhibit his photographs as featured in the April Issue of Vanity Fair magazine. On the opening night, both Sebastian Junger and Teun Voeten will give a short presentation. The Half King is proud to introduce that evening a very special guest, Captain Josh Mc Gary. He is commanding officer of the US army unit Voeten and Junger were embedded with. Straight from the battlefield, Capt. Josh McGary will tell first hand about his experiences in Afghanistan and give his take on the current situation in Afghanistan. We hope to see you on this very interesting evening... The event starts at 7 pm, but due to limited seating, please be early. |
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Artist Bio Teun Voeten studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy in the Netherlands. During his studies, which brought him to Nicaragua, New York and Ecuador, he learnt photography by working as an assistant for several fashion and architectural photographers. After his graduation in 1991, Voeten choose to be working as a photojournalist and covered the conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Rwanda, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Haïti, Colombia, Iraq, Chechnya, Liberia and many other hot spots. In 1996 the Amsterdam based publishing house Atlas published "Tunnelmensen", a anthropologic reportage about a underground homeless community in the train tunnels of Manhattan. Voeten's latest book, "How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone.", published by Meulenhoff Amsterdam, appeared in US translation at St. Martins Press, New York, 2002. Among other publications, Voeten's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek, New York Times, The New Yorker, LA Weekly, El Pais Magazine, Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung and Granta. Having won awards all over the world, his photos are used by international organizations such as Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNHCR and the International Red Cross. Besides his journalistic work, Voeten founded a organization that supports a high school in Sierra Leone. Voeten lives alternately in New York and Brussels.
Photography series
curated by Michelle
Jackson Michelle Jackson has been
curating
Previous exhibitions at The Half King For further information on these exhibits, please go here.
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