Essays and Features

Bali: Sen San Warung

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Jun Michael Park

Early morning, Pak Ketut San Di cleans floors of his waring in Dewisita, Ubud, Bali. This small restaurant is called Sen San Warung, named after his wife Ibuk Wayan Sen Li and him, and they have been running it for the past 10 years. The joint is a favorite among locals and tourists alike.

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Jun Michael Park

A photographic essay documenting everyday life of Sen Warung, a local restaurant. Produced during Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2015 in Ubud, Bali.

http://junmichaelpark.com/portfolio/essays/sen-san-warung/

Jun Michael Park is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller from Seoul, South Korea, and has worked for Der Spiegel, Welt am Sonntag, Cicero Magazine, Brand Eins in Germany, as well as Greenpeace East Asia, Save the Children, Asia Society Korea Center and many more. Jun is a winner of a Silver Award in Press-Feature Story category at Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) 2015 and will be participating in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVIII in October 2015. He is available for assignments and commissions worldwide.

http://junmichaelpark.com

Photography Friday: Lu Nan

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Lu Nan

The pictures below offer a journey towards humanistic ideals and the refinement of documentary photography. Member of the prestigious international cooperative Magum Photos, Lu Nan 呂楠 (born in 1962 in Beijing) is one the many independent documentary photographers in China who turned their cameras onto marginalized people from the late 1980s onwards.

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Lu Nan

His pivotal series started in 1989 with “The Forgotten People: The Condition of China’s Psychiatric Patients.” Pursing his intentions to document Chinese people from the margins of society, his subsequent series captured members of the Catholic Faith (“On The Road: The Catholic Faith in China”, 1992-1996), peasants’ life in Tibet (“Four Seasons: Everyday Life of Tibetan Peasants”, 1996-2004), and prisoner’s conditions (“Prisons of North Burma”, 2006).

See more on:

http://shanghaiist.com/2015/07/31/photography_friday_lu_nan.php

View more of Lu Nan’s work at Photography of China and visit Lu’s profile on Magnum Photos here.

Photography Friday is a regular feature from Shanghaiist in association with Photography of China, Marine Cabos’s fantastic trilingual blog about photography and photographers in China.

Stateless women

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Yo Fauzan Ijazah

AK, a Rohingya refugee cries as she is waiting to be transported to a temporary shelter, East Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia

In May 2015, hundreds of refugees from Myanmar arrived in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Some of them found their own way ashore while most were rescued at sea by Acehnese fishermen. They have been given urgent humanitarian assistance by the Indonesian Government and local communities in different parts of Aceh, including Lhoksukon, Kuala Cangkoi, Kuala Langsa, Bayeun, and Kuala Simpang.

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Yo Fauzan Ijazah

SB (16) and AK (18), Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, at a temporary shelter in Bayeun, East Aceh, Indonesia.

Photographed on assignment for UNHCR.

http://www.fauzanimages.com/stateless-women

Fauzan Ijazah, also known as Yo Fauzan to his friends, is a photographer/ photojournalist currently based in Indonesia. His work appeared in many publications, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Global Post, BBC, National Geographic Documentary, Associated Press (AP), NPR, The Guardian, Politiken, PDN, New Internationalist, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Devex, L’Express, STERN, among others.

He also has been working on photo assignments for organizations like Save The Children, International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC), Norwegian Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, USAID, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Terre de Homes, Panos, Islamic Relief, HIVOS, World Bank, Plan International, Save The Children New Zealand, United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

 

‘SEA SLAVES’: FORCED LABOR FOR CHEAP FISH

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Adam Dean for The New York Times
Adam Dean for The New York Times

SONGKHLA, Thailand — Lang Long’s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family’s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker’s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job.

It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Mr. Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants up a gangway onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea.

“I cried,” said Mr. Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared.

Adam Dean for The New York Times
Adam Dean for The New York Times

Mr. Long’s crews trawled primarily for forage fish, which are small and cheaply priced. Much of this catch comes from the waters off Thailand, where Mr. Long was held, and is sold to the United States, typically for canned cat and dog food or feed for poultry, pigs and farm-raised fish that Americans consume. (By )

Read the whole article on The New York Times.com:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html

Although Adam Dean had photographed for The New York Times in Southeast Asia before, he was excited to work with Ian Urbina on part of his investigative series, “The Outlaw Ocean.” He saw it as an opportunity to dig into a story and spend some time trying to find out what was really going in the violent, unregulated world of fishing boats in international waters.

The resulting article, “ ‘Sea Slaves’ Catch Dinner for America’s Pets,” details the stories of fishermen who have fled forced labor. He spoke recently with the deputy picture editor Beth Flynn about his experiences on the project. Their conversation has been edited and condensed.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/life-among-the-sea-slaves/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin&_r=0#