Espen Rasmussen, Norwegian photographer and picture editor for Norway’s largest daily, Verdens Gang, has spent nearly seven years compiling the TRANSIT project. TRANSIT documents the plight of some of the 43 million refugees and displaced people around the world today. On the run from conflict, political persecution or natural disasters, desperate people, uprooted from their communities, undertake arduous journeys to find safety for themselves and their families. From the displaced of the war in Georgia, to the Janjaweed who kill and rape in Darfur, Rasmussen traveled to 10 different countries, recording the lives of individuals trying to make new lives for themselves after fleeing their homes, and the hardships that set them on the run.
TRANSIT has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Independent amongst other publications and is currently on display at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo. Updates about exhibitions and articles relating to the project can be found on the TRANSIT Facebook page. Copies of the TRANSIT book will be for sale at a signing after the event.
Rasmussen has won multiple awards including two at World Press Photo and is represented by London based agency, Panos Pictures.
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For In the Picture this week we will be joined by Norwegian photojournalist Espen Rasmussen who, for his project TRANSIT, travelled to 10 different countries recording the lives of refugees. This week’s screening Love Me Please investigates the shooting of journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow and reveals the true extent of neo-Nazism in Russia.
For next week’s Reflections we will be joined by veteran war correspondent Martin Bell.
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At our First Wednesday Special, discuss the cultural and political changes set in motion by the events of 9/11 ten years ago and look ahead to the next decade.
We’ll also be discussing extremism, Somalia, photography in transit and the cult of youth in newspapers and there’s also a great opportunity to hear from industry veterans Martin Bell and the New York Times‘ David Carr and Richard Gizbert of Al Jazeera English.
Our screenings include a double bill of films by John D. McHugh, a special preview of The Debt, insight into the world of teenage miners in Bolivia and human trafficking in Nigeria.
Go to our website for further details of all the talks and screenings, PLUS a preview reading of Bang Bang Bang, a multimedia storytelling masterclass with Brian Storm and third party events on remembering 9/11 and on investigative journalism.
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