Born In Prison / In The Memories by Julie Adnan (July 9, 2010) 
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Introduction by Yumi Goto
Seven female photographers living and working in their own places, covering issues affecting their people, cultures, politics and dreams. These are seven female photographers whose work I keep my eyes on. Not only they are women, but they are working in their own space, trying to reach out, trying to raise awareness and interest outside of their community or country. Through the lens, they expose what they witness and share with the subject what they feel. Often their countries’ issues are misinterpreted or exaggerated by foreign media, journalists and photographers. These women are from Nepal, Iraq/Kurdistan, the Philippines, Palestine, Pakistan, India and Indonesia—all culturally difficult areas in which to live and work, for women and photographers.
Yumi Goto is an art and photo documentary project coordinator and curator. Her work has focused on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders through collaboration with local artists and NGOs in areas affected by conflict. Goto has worked as the project manager and research/development director on numerous documentary photography projects about social issues in Asia including HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, human rights in Aceh and refugee issues. She has produced the documentary slideshow presentations and exhibitions that NGOs widely use as direct advocacy tools throughout the region and in Japan.
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Our poll "A photo essay always needs a great written story" closed. 267 people voted, 28% agrees, 72% disagrees. 233 people answered our follow-up question "Are you a photographer?" 82% indicated they are, 18% said no. Initially, negative answers to question #1 were almost 100% as was the pecentage of photographers among respondants. Then, when the level of non-photographers started to rise, the percentage of people indicating good text is always essential started to rise too. This seems to indicate that non-photographers think that adding good text to your photo essays is essential. In my opinion: if you want non-photographers to dig your work, you know what to do...
Born In Jail, Erbil, Iraq, 2009. This idea came from seeing pictures of women prisoners living in prison with their children. I was asking myself why these kids should be in prison. Then I realized that in Iraq women prisoners can keep their children with them for two years. If there is no one to take care of the child then it stays even longer in prison. Most of the children in these photographs were born in prison.
In The Memories, Halabja, Iraq, 2010. Halabja, is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, it was gassed by the Saddam Husein regime in 1988. Many people died, the survivors remained alone, many had lost all or most of their family members. Some of the survivors still live in the house in which they lost most of their family members. I visited some of the survivors with pictures I got from the Halabja’s monument and asked them how and where they would want to place them in order to be photographed. For each person fow whom no photograph could be found a red rose was used.
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