On December 27th of 2008, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki won a second term amid allegations that the government stole the vote, sparking deadly riots. Thousands of young men burst out of Kibera, a shantytown of one million people located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Soldiers poured into the streets to fight them off. The opposition rejected the results and vowed to inaugurate its leader, Raila Odinga, as “the people’s president". With Kibaki belonging to Kenya's largest tribe, the Kikuyu, and Odinga to the second largest, the Luo, the violence has taken on a distinctly ethnic hue.

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Christophe CALAIS Hakkında

Christophe Calais 1969’da doğdu, meslek hayatına ulusal bir gazete olan France-Soir’de başladı. 1992’de VSD Magazine’in fotoğraf ekibine katıldı, 6 yıl boyunca, uluslararası, özellikle de özel ilgi duyduğu, halen çalışmakta olduğu Ruanda’daki haberler üzerine röportajlar yaptı. Ruanda üzerine olan çalışmaları, “Le cri des morts, le silence des vivants (Ölülerin Çığlığı, Yaşayanların Sessizliği)” isimli kitabının yayınlanması, 1998 Perpignan Festival of Photojournalism’deki bir sergi, ve 2002 ve 2004’te aynı festivalde projeksiyon sunumu için rehberlik etti. 2002’de, Ruanda üzerine bir belgeselde, fotoğrafları aracılığıyla yardımcı yazarlık yaptı. Ruanda üzerine olan yeni kitabı “le pays hanté (Perili Ülke)” 2006 yılında basıldı ve Paris’te Bibliothèque Nationale de France’daki bir çoklu gösterimde sergilendi. Christophe 6 yıl önce, Amerika’daki mültecilerin yeniden yerleştirilmesi üzerine uzun dönemli bir çalışmaya başladı.

Born in 1969, Christophe Calais begins his career at the national newspaper France-Soir in 1990. In 1992, he becomes a staff photographer at VSD Magazine and covers international news for six years, with a particular interest in Rwanda, a country on which he still reports today. His work on Rwanda has led to the publication of a book Le cri des morts, le silence des vivants and to an exhibition at the 1998 Perpignan Festival of Photojournalism as well as a projection at that same Festival in 2002 and 2004. In 1998, Christophe decides to become a freelancer and his work is published by several international magazines. In 2002, he is the co-author of a documentary on Rwanda, based on his photographic work. His new book, Rwanda, le pays hanté is published in 2006 and exhibited at the group show "Pour une photographie engagée" at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Six years ago, Christophe started to work on a long-term project about refugee resettlement in America.
 

Contact through my website at www.christophecalais.com

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