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What We Share

The world is facing the greatest humanitarian challenges in recent memory. Around the globe, 128 million people are trapped in crisis and struggling to survive. A record-breaking 65 million have fled their homes due to conflict and violence, many of them leaving with little more than the clothes on their backs, in search of safety and assistance.

 

Through two new photo projects, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has embarked on a journey to tell the stories of people affected by conflict and natural disasters. The photos, taken by photographer Vincent Tremeau in some of the world’s most severe emergencies, aim to shed light on what it means to live through a crisis.

 

For “What We Share,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) teamed up with photographers to explore the theme of solidarity in times of displacement. The first series, photographed by Vincent Tremeau, tells the stories of host families in Niger, who share what little they have with Nigerian refugees fleeing violence and insecurity. The second series, a joint collaboration between Stefano Carini and Rawsht Twana, focuses on the common history and memories that displaced people share in northern Iraq, a region of the world that has witnessed multiple waves of displacement.

 

While displacement often conjures up images of people crossing borders and seas, seeking assistance and protection, “What We Share” offers a unique perspective, highlighting the powerful ties that bind people together in the most trying of circumstances.

T3 Photo Festival, Tokyo

UN Headquarters, NY

Berlin, Germany

Geneva, Switzerland

About the Artists

Vincent Tremeau

Vincent Tremeau, born in 1984, is a French photographer. After studying Law, he undertakes several missions as a humanitarian worker in crises-affected countries. From 2014, Tremeau pursues his commitment as an independent photographer, and starts documenting several humanitarian crises across Africa and Asia. Combining an artistic approach to a documentary purpose he starts his One Day, I Will project on youth, which takes him around the globe. His What We Share series, commissioned by OCHA in 2016, highlights solidarity in times of displacement.

Stefano Carini

Stefano Carini worked as a photo editor for NOOR Images in Amsterdam after studying photography and photojournalism. In May 2014, he moved to Iraq where he lead Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency, and created the Map of Displacement, an interactive project that tells the stories of displaced Iraqis. Carini has trained photographers and visual storytellers in Europe and Iraq, given lectures, and curated both solo and group exhibitions. He has been part of the World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass nominating committee since 2014. Carini’s main objective is to be part of, inspire, and push forward a cultural revolution in the ways and forms we produce, consume, and process images and visual documents. Carini lives and works in Scicli, Sicily and is the co-founder and director of DARST, a nomadic art studio for the research and production of documentary projects.

Rawsht Twana

Rawsht Twana was born in 1988 in Qaladze, Iraq. He became a photographer in 2006 after discovering his father’s archive, who himself was a photographer before he was killed in 1992. Twana, who has been displaced twice in his life, has focused his work on the impact of conflict and displacement in his home country. In his “What We Share” series, Twana explores the common history, memories and culture that displaced people share, and that which unites them despite their differences. Twana currently lives in Suleymaniye, Iraq with his wife and daughter.

Photos by

Vincent Tremeau, Stefano Carini, Rawsht Twana

Exhibition Dates

Tokyo May 19 – 28, 2017 | Photoville Festival 2017

featured at

T3 Photo Festival Tokyo (2017) | Berlin, Germany | Geneva, Switzerland | UN Headquarters NY | Photoville Festival 2017

In Partnership with

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)

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Public Art
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