Lori Fredrickson of PopPhoto.com provides insight into a new photo book covering the crisis in Darfur titled “Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan.” What has been occurring unchecked in Darfur is disturbing enough, but to see some of these images brings to the forefront the realization that the “free world” has not done enough to quell this crisis. Here is an excerpt from the article.…While Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan isn't the first photobook to be published on the crisis, it takes perhaps the most direct approach. The photos (from such renowned war photographers as Colin Finlay, Pep Bonet, and Lynsey Addario, among others) capture each of the core elements: the military, the refugee camps, and the medical facilities. Many of the photos are hard to look at, as are many of the testimonies that accompany them.
The photos are accompanied by concise essays that offer facts and historical perspective on the region and its people. Contributors include Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International, movie star activists Mia Farrow and Ryan Gosling, and New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, one of most outspoken proponents of intervention. Kristof's essay, titled "If Not Now, When?," offers a detailed plan for ending the crisis…
Read the entire article and review the image gallery on the PopPhoto website.
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