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Bamako Encounters - Biennial of African Photography
Held every two years since 1994 based on research work conducted all over Africa, the Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography seek to promote regional integration and facilitate North-South cultural exchanges by creating an international cultural centre in Bamako that testifies to the wealth and vitality of the photography produced on the continent. These Encounters constitute an opportunity for exchange and dialogue enabling African photographers to show off their talents, to meet one another, and to reveal their works to the world. But they are also a window that enables the general neophyte photography public to get to know photography as a means of expression. The issue of Borders, Bamako Encounters' central theme in 2009 is eminently current and paradoxical in a world where, on the one hand, we proclaim and practice the disappearance of political and economic borders and, on the other, erect walls to protect them. Indeed, globalization and economic liberalism have made some lands highly porous, yet they have not prevented an increase in dissuasive and repressive measures to combat the flows of migrants caused by other imperatives. Download the press kit for more information (5MB). Views for this post have not been counted.
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Nairobi based photojournalist Karel Prinsloo presents three stories.
Iraq Ambush. Prinsloo: I was traveling with members of the 82nd airborne division, we were staying in a combat outpost for the night. Early the next morning we heard an explosion followed by small arms fire about one kilometer from the base. The soldiers responded immediately and we set of to the scene. An Iraqi patrol vehicle had been hit an IED and ambushed by insurgents. US soldiers gave first aid and arranged for an air medivac to evacuate the wounded. During the process insurgents opened fire on them at which point the soldiers retaliated and then pulled back to the base. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in action.
Kenya. In the wake of the 2007 general and presidential elections the country submerged in ethnic violence that killed an estimated 1500 people.
Congo. At the end of 2008 government forces and rebels of renegade General Laurent Nkunda fought each other around Goma, the capital of Nord Kivu province in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Karel Prinsloo, a recognized photojournalist, is a native of Namibia. In 1994, while working for the local Namibian press, he left for South Africa to photograph apartheid, ending up with the South African Sunday Times. An artist always on the move, Karel Prinsloo sees in the concept of border all the pain of those who flee it. Photographing the populations fleeing North Kivu, with an approach at once political and humane towards these shattered lands, he reports on the everyday life of the uprooted and creates a detailed portrait of a land being deserted. By emphasizing the feeling of loss associated with all departures and all borders, Karel Prinsloo shows the impossibility of taking everything with you. Through these human lines marching towards something else, he defines the border as separation with a past left behind. [Taken from the Bamako Encounters Press Kit.]Karel Prinsloo (1971) lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. Click weblink lens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/karel-prinsloo/ or browse our archives
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