This week Friday Round Up previews the work of four female photojournalists exhibiting at Visa – Marie Dorigny, Catalina Martin-Chico, Anastasia Rudenko and Claire Allard. Next week more on the world's most important, and longest running, photojournalism festival in the beautiful French town of Perpignan.
Feature:
Visa pour l?Image: Part One
Four Female Photojournalists
Marie Dorigny:
Displaced - Women in Exile
In a file commissioned with the aid of the European Parliament, French photographer Marie Dorigny files the women and youngsters, who now make up greater than 1/2 of the refugees who are fleeing warfare, violence and terror.
Lesbos, Greece. A young Greek volunteer with a sea rescue team comforting a distressed and pregnant Iraqi refugee who has just made the crossing from Turkey. © Marie Dorigny / MYOP for the European Parliament 2016
Hotspot, Moria, Lesbos, Greece. Refugees who attain Europe first sign in on the ?Warm spot? In which they are sorted in step with nationality. The waiting seems interminable as the formalities pass on and on. ? Marie Dorigny / MYOP for the European Parliament 2016
Catalina Martin-Chico:
The Last and the Lost - The Brave Nomads of Iran
A century in the past there had been 5 million nomadic humans in Iran. Today they quantity only 1.5 million. While many are looking to assimilate into city environments and adapt to a sedentary lifestyles, others hold to guide a conventional nomadic lifestyle, but it is feared they may disappear as the authorities actions to stop their roaming.
During transhumance, the Bakhtiari people, such as Mahsan and her family, spend the night at a different point so that their animals can graze on fresh pastures. Shirin Bahar, near Lali, Khuzestan, Iran, April 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos
Primary schooling in the mountains to learn basic literacy and numeracy. For any further education the children have to move to the city and abandon their traditional nomadic lifestyle. Near Qir, Fars province, Iran, February 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos
Zohreh and her sister-in-law, their bodies misshapen from their harsh living conditions. For nomads, “women are men” so that means doing the same physical work. Basoft, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran, April 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos
Anastasia Rudenko:
Institutions for the Mentally Disabled in Russia
In this collection, Anastasia Rudenko, who won the Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2015 (supported by way of ELLE magazine) is pursuing the task she began in 2012, investigating life in establishments for mentally disabled humans in the Russian provinces. According to official data in 2013 there had been extra than 1,000 intellectual care centres for adults in Russia. One hundred fifty,000 patients are living in those centres including 50,000 who're in lengthy-term social care establishments known as Internats, that are for adults who had been formerly housed in orphanages for mentally disabled children.
Women near the hearth bucket stand outside the girls's asylum. Over the beyond 3 years more than 100 sufferers in mental establishments in Russia have been sufferers of fires. Ryazan location, Russia, 2015. ? Anastasia Rudenko
The “House of Mercy” is a facility for severely dysfunctional patients, and those likely to run away and get lost. Ryazan region, Russia, 2015. © Anastasia Rudenko
Patients walking in the forest near the village. Elat’ma, Ryazan region, Russia, 2012. © Anastasia Rudenko
Claire Allard:
Backstage
This series by means of Claire Allard extends over some of years in which she followed and located the technical crews who work behind the curtain to make certain the display goes on.
During an alternative music festival, Yann, the lights technician, is doing an emergency restore perched at the scaffolding ? A exquisite vantage factor for the concert. ? Claire Allard
Summer is the peak season for rock festivals across Europe, and technicians rarely have a break. Here, Thierry, the sound engineer, is busy setting the stage speakers. Other crew members have brought him something to eat. Ronquières Festival, Belgium, August 2, 2015. © Claire Allard
To see the full programme go to the Visa pour l'Image website.
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