Tag: refugee
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Photography: Refugees United
I’ve just watched a video about Refugees United, an organization that helps to reconnect displaced refugees with their families. Some of the refugees I am photographing here in Japan are lucky enough to be in touch with their families thousands of miles away, but some are not. Hopefully organizations like this can help the less…
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Photography: Ugandan Protest in Tokyo
I went to Tokyo yesterday to photography a demo against the Ugandan government as part of my Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshop project. One of the subjects I’m shooting for my refugee project took part in the demo. The weather was terrible but that didn’t stop anybody. 昨日Tokyo Documentary Photography Workshopの難民プロジェクトの取材の為東京に行って、反ウガンダ政府デモを撮影しました。名古屋で撮影している難民の方がデモに参加しました。台風でしたが、皆さんが天気を気にせずにデモをしました
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Photography: Monthly Immigration Visits 1
Part of being a refugee applicant are the monthly visits to Immigration. Victoria has been going every month for the past 9 years to extend her children’s and her own provisional release from detention despite having her hands full as a mother. 難民の方が毎月入国管理局に行けなければなりません。ビクトリアさんが家族の為に9年間前から仮放免期間延印を取りに行っています。
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Photography: Victoria
This is Victoria and her children. Victoria is originally from Tanzania but has been living in Japan for the past 9 years. Her husband is Ugandan and their children were all born and raised in Japan. They speak only Japanese and go to Japanese schools like other children their age. Due to Japanese law the…
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Photography: New Project
I watched Julia and Julia a couple of days ago. If you don’t know it it’s the story of Julia, a 30 year old New Yorker, who sets herself the goal of making all the recipes in the other Julia’s French cookbook. There were over 500 recipes and she gave herself 365 days to complete…