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The Women of Kabul

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The Washington Post has put up a nice multi-media feature by Paula Lerner entitled “The Women of Kabul. Here's the synopsis: ”Five years ago today the Taliban fled Kabul, bringing an end to a harsh regime. This feature tells the stories of five women entrepreneurs in Kabul who are rebuilding their lives and their country by building their businesses. They are struggling to take control of their future against a backdrop of a country still recovering from decades of war and facing an ongoing insurgency.“ Lerner also took part in an online conversation with Marla Gitterman, Program Director of the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace). A transcript of that can be found here. 200611162235

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I Am Not a War Photographer screening in Brooklyn, NY

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Wanted to alert everyone to this screening and talk by artist Lynne Sachs:
I AM NOT A WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a cinematic presentation and talk exploring my decade-long artistic rather than physical immersion in war. From Vietnam to Bosnia to WWII Occupied Rome to the Middle East today, my experimental documentary films push the borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations through the intertwining of abstract and reality based imagery. In my talk, I will introduce precise visual strategies I have discovered in working with these fraught and divisive themes. Often opting for a painterly rather than a photographic articulation of conflict, I struggle with each new project to find a precise language of images and sounds with which to discuss these volatile moments in history, exposing what I see as the limits of a conventional, documentary representation of both the past and the present. Infusions of colored “brush strokes

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Jill Carroll

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No News on Jill Carroll's fate as deadline passes. This reminder just in from Bill Putnam. Looks like just about any residential street in Baghdad. Putnam's newly-uploaded work can be seen in his gallery. We will be fronting more of it later this week.

 

Kidnapping corner
The corner where Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Baghdad Jan. 7, 2006. Carroll, a freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor, is still being held.

 

 

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