woensdag, oktober 29, 2003
Joan Wakelin, who has died aged 75, was a photojournalist who specialised in black and white portraiture: she found her subjects in situations of conflict and desperation, but also in happiness. When she was nine, she was given a camera - at her insistence - and began to take photographs. Ffor Joan, the street was her studio and her preference was to use existing light.
Among the first of her many visits to the east was a trip to Sri Lanka in 1976, for the Observer magazine. But it was home news that spurred her career, in particular an involvement with the Greenham Common protests of the early 1980s against the siting of cruise missiles at the US air base in Berkshire. The women protesters, their way of life, and the campaigning tactics that evolved around the peace camp became the subject of key images for Joan.
While she recognised that being a woman was beneficial in some work situations, it was her humour, sincerity and efficiency that helped Joan through bureaucratic barriers. In 1989, she went to photograph the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong - a project she viewed as one of her greatest achievements; her image essay on the boat people was included in the 1990 World Press Awards.
Her book, A Different Drum (2000) is an anthology of her work with notes on her life.
Bron: The Guardian
Among the first of her many visits to the east was a trip to Sri Lanka in 1976, for the Observer magazine. But it was home news that spurred her career, in particular an involvement with the Greenham Common protests of the early 1980s against the siting of cruise missiles at the US air base in Berkshire. The women protesters, their way of life, and the campaigning tactics that evolved around the peace camp became the subject of key images for Joan.
While she recognised that being a woman was beneficial in some work situations, it was her humour, sincerity and efficiency that helped Joan through bureaucratic barriers. In 1989, she went to photograph the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong - a project she viewed as one of her greatest achievements; her image essay on the boat people was included in the 1990 World Press Awards.
Her book, A Different Drum (2000) is an anthology of her work with notes on her life.
Bron: The Guardian
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