Magnum Scholarship Winners February 18, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Foto Freo, Magnum, Photojournalism , trackbackMagnum Photos Workshop Fremantle Scholarship Winners
FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography has revealed the winners of the 3 scholarships to the Magnum Workshops Fremantle offered by FotoFreo with the support of the Department of Culture and the Arts. 45 applications were received for the 3 places.
The winners are (in alphabetical order):
Claire Martin, Talhy Stotzer & Richard Wainwright.
The winners will be offered full-fee places on the Magnum Workshops Fremantle to document local interest stories about Fremantle and the surrounding area and apply this to their individual photographic style. The workshop will culminate in a projection of participant work at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of the festival opening night celebration on 19 March, and the production of 8”x10” group books provided by creative publishing and marketing platform, Blurb Books.
Claire Martin The Downtown East Side
Claire Martin
Claire Martin’s submission for the scholarship was on poverty and addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.
This is Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, a place notorious for it’s residents who live below the povertyline in a city twice voted “the worlds most liveable” by the Economist Magazine. Statistics for the suburb include an AIDS rate estimated at 30% and the leading cause of death as overdose. Addiction is the core problem causing women to sell sex in order to meet subsistence needs such as food and shelter. Living conditions are sub-standard with the norm consisting of small single room accommodations that are ridden with bed bugs and multi resistant staphylococcus. The media regularly makes rounds on the Downtown East side but it only serves to stigmatise the people. It is easy to forget that this is a real suburb home to real people who are suffering devastating loss of health and quality of life due to addiction.
Claire Martin
Claire Martin began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work, however, she changed her focus to Photography when she realized that change can also be effected through this medium. Her work on poverty and addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side has been recognized by the IPA, winning Claire a nomination for Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year. A single image from the series also won the title of Up and Coming Portrait Photographer at the Sony World Photography Awards. Her most recent project “Slab City” documents the lives of a community of Squatters in the California desert. For this Claire was recognized as representing “woman and poverty” in a competition juried by Nan Goldin and Vice Magazine is exhibiting as Australia’s emerging female photojournalist at Foto Freo Festival 2010. Claire has recently joined the Getty Images “Emerging Talent” for Reportage and has relocated to Perth, Western Australia where she has begun a career as a freelance photographer.
Claire Martin
See more of Claire Martin’s work here.
Claire’s exhibition Slab City will be shown at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery as part of FotoFreo 2010.
Talhy Stotzer Tearing Down Old Kashgar
Talhy Stotzer A Uyghur man employed
by the government to demolish traditional
homes in a $440 million project.
Talhy Stotzer’s submission for the scholarship was a documentation of life in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in Chiina during the recent period of rapid change and population uprooting.
The labyrinth of tightly interlocking alleyways in Kashgar’s old city are essential to the livelihood of the close knit community and traditional culture of numerous Uyghurs. Kashgar is an ancient city in China’s far west Xinjiang province. It is the cultural capital of the Uyghurs – a Muslim Turkic-speaking minority. This traditional oasis city, situated at the end of the Silk Road, has attracted merchants and travelers for centuries. As with the rest of China, however, Kashgar is rapidly changing. The demolition of the old town, still inhabited by tens of thousands of Uyghurs, is a tangible example of this transformation. The ethnic riots between the Han majority and Uyghur minority in the
Talhy Stotzer Many parts of Kashgar already look like any
modern Chinese city with large open roads, neon lights
and Chinese emblems. Kashgar hosts one of the largest
statues of Mao ZeDong (background); it is a local joke
that he stands with his back to the old town pointing
in the direction of the new developments.
provincial capital of Urumchi last July have only served to increase the speed with which the old city is being demolished. City officials say 85 percent of the old city, which in some parts has stood for more than 2000 years, will be demolished in the next five years and more than 200, 000 Uyghurs will be re-located. While authorities claim the relocation of the old town’s former inhabitants to modern, generic apartment blocks on the outskirts of town is for local safety against potential earthquakes, others believe the project is more about Han Chinese control and national security. These photographs document Kashgar during this time of rapid change and population uprooting. They show fragments of traditional life that persist in spite of the surrounding demolition. They also show aspects of a changing Chinese modern city. Taken over two extended visits to Kashgar last year, these ten images related to the old city are part of an ongoing project – a trilogy that focuses on different facets of life in the city, namely the Uyghur tradition in the old city, the Han Chinese quarters, and Uyghur youth culture.
Talhy Stotzer is a Western Australian freelance documentary photographer currently based in Perth. In 2009, Talhy spent a year in China where she was accepted to take part in an international photo-journalism Master’s program at the Dalian Institute of Image Art. As the recipient of a grant from Arts WA in 2005, Talhy has documented daily life in the Vezo fishing village of Andrevo in Madagascar. The project culminated in a solo exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Perth and raised money for the construction of a medical centre in the village. She has also exhibited in numerous group shows at the Perth Centre of Photography and Hudson Gallery. Additionally she has had stories published in several newspapers, including The West Australian and Japan’s Asahi Newspapers. In 2007, Talhy also worked as a writer and photographer for the Broome Advertiser and the Broome Happenings – a weekly newspaper and a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine in Australia’s north-west. She is currently completing a postgraduate degree in documentary photography at Edith Cowan University.
Talhy Stotzer Girl grips widow frame in the old city.
Over the next five years, more than 200,000 people
will be uprooted.
See more of Talhyl Stotzer’s work here.
Richard Wainwright Mongolia – Surviving Winter
Richard Wainwright’s submission explored the lives of street children struggling to survive the bitter winter in Ulaan Baatar,
Mongolia, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Under the streets of Ulaan Baatar, the coldest capital city in the world, many children struggle to survive the bitter winter where temperatures reach -40c. Mongolia is one of the world’s poorest countries, with a third of the population living in poverty. With rapidly rising unemployment and alcholism affecting over 14% of men, tensions at home have caused many children to run away to escape violence or because their parents can no longer care for them.
Their daily lives revolve around seeking food and warmth. To survive they have to look in rubbish bins for empty bottles and anything else they can sell. Despite the harsh living conditions they haven’t started drinking the cheap vodka many street children succumb to.
Richard Wainwright Munkhbat & Altangeret check out a rubbish
shed. By collecting used bottles and anything else sellable
they are able to buy just enough food for the day
Forced into this situation by divorced and deceased parents, they still hope and strive for a better future but with little government help and an unsympathetic public their future is precarious.
Richard is an award winning photojournalist who has recently relocated to Perth, Western Australia to take up a freelance career. Since gaining a degree in Documentary Photography at The University of Wales, Newport he has been reporting on news and humanitarian issues around the world. He was a senior staff photographer with the Jersey Evening Post for 8 years as well as working closely with aid agencies on assignment documenting their activities, writing stories and producing multimedia packages. Assignments include reporting the impact on gold miners in Congo DRC, documenting the lives of former child soldiers in Liberia, the effects of the tsunami in Aceh and self assigned news stories on the Presidential elections in Afghanistan and Yasser Arafat’s funeral in Ramallah. He has also been filing news pictures for Corbis picture agency out of their Paris office since 2003. His work has been widely published including Newsweek, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph and has been commissioned by Cafod, Rotary international and Amnesty International. He is currently starting a long term project on borders and barriers.
Richard Wainwright Munkhbat & Altangeret get some
sleep on top of the water pipes. Despite the freezing
temperatures outside, the manholes can become
unbearably hot inside. The favoured position is just
above the entrance allowing cool air to drift in.
See more of Richard Wainwright’s work here.
Richard is exhibiting this work as part of the FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival at HQ Gallery in Leederville.
- Richard Wainwright Munkhbat (15) and Altangeret (15) have lived down this manhole in Unur district of Ulaan Baatar for over 3 years.
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