MIGRANTS: Residents and Volunteers at Ritsona Camp

About

"Photojournalists Alan Schaller and Emily Garthwaite will share their experiences from the Calais jungle. They have produced three articles for the Independent over the past year about the camp. Topics they will talk about range from issues pertaining to the mental health of jungle residents, the state of Dunkirk, the importance of media sensitivity, the Iranian hunger strikers, the destruction of the camp and most recently the children who slept rough due to the organisation blunder by authorities.

6.00 pm talk by Heather McDonough

Heather found that volunteering in the French refugee camps led to a steady stream of encounters – with residents whose fragile lives have unravelled, fragmented and reconstituted in a remote and strange place – and with objects, whether waiting for their purpose to be fulfilled or lying spent and discarded, or else in limbo, useless and abandoned.

Heather McDonough is a fine art photographer with a background in print and design. Aside from her own work, which is often sequence-based, she edits photos for a variety of clients including artists’ monographs published by Chris Boot, Prestel and PhotoWorks.

6.15 pm  talk by William Sanjay

I have seen very poor living conditions in China or South East Asia, but when I arrived in Greece, I was shocked to discover how secluded the life was in the camps and how lost and abandoned the people were feeling. 
Through my pictures I want to contribute to raising awareness about the living conditions in refugee camps within the borders of Europe and more importantly show how the children are growing up and missing the basic education.
Children are the future of our world, and if we don’t educate them, who knows what the consequences will be. Education is a fundamental right for everybody regardless of who you are and where you are.

6.30 pm talk by Julio Etchart

As an exile, who came to this country fleeing political persecution from a fascist dictatorship I have always felt empathy towards refugees and migrant people.
As a visual journalist, I made one of my pledges to report the plight of those that are forced to leave their countries for political, social and economic reasons, and I have been covering such issues for decades.
I will be showing a small selection of images of refugees and migrants I shot earlier this year on the Turkish coast and on the island of Lesbos, trailing the route that thousands of asylum seekers have followed trying to start a new life in Europe

From 6.45 pm to 9.30 Music and Drinks

For more information please go to the link:

http://photographymigrant.wixsite.com/photo/migrants-exhibition-eventhttp://photographymigrant.wixsite.com/photo/copy-of-about

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