Lecture Syria: The War Within and the refugees.
Olof Jarlbro will talk about his two latest books, human aspect of war and portraying war in pictures…
Thursday 16 feb 2017 18:00 – 20:00 Landskrona museum
Kids playing outside residential area, one of the apartment house was hit by regime missile.
The Syrian Civil War grew out of the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and escalated to armed conflict after President Bashar al-Assad’s government violently repressed a revolt.
“The black and white pictures take us to the run-down camps where waiting and boredom prevails. Children and adults seated and located in the scantily furnished room. Time passes slowly while waiting for news from home or on what will happen in the new country. They do what you need and nothing else. Clothes should be washed and food to be cooked. The pictures are still compositions exude silence in a way that loudly contrasts with the war existence, the people have fled…“
Anders Alm
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“Describing Syria as hell on earth is not at all far-fetched…It’s a nasty place, and death will constantly breathing down your neck”
Interview in Institute of Independent Journalism in Czech Republic- Hlidaci Pes
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“It’s hard to explain, but when you realize how fragile life is, everything is suddenly black and white, like life and death…”
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In Czech Newspaper Pravo and Novinky by Jan Šída.
A book about people, not about refugees.
The book of Swedish photographer Olof Jarlbro, called Refuge, deals with the issue of people who escape from misery, poverty and war. All images are black and white because its display a form that are expressive and raw. It is important for capturing atmosphere.
Refuge word can be translated as a refuge or shelter. The first chapter Shattered homes in Syria (Shattered homes in Syria) shows the devastated streets of the city, people who stumble among the rubble, and the ubiquitous guns. But it is just a visual prelude to another material.
Above each image, although it raises the specter of death, but runs parallel to ordinary life. Before bombed the house of a man standing with a Kalashnikov in one hand while the other offers something to eat for passing cat. On another picture posing cocooned Free Syrian Army fighter determinedly holding an automatic rifle AK-47 and looking to somewhere through the photographer behind the event horizon.
The second chapter consists of reportage images of the Bulgarian refugee camps, in which dwells Syrian refugees. Although we cannot see them with any weapons or devastated homes, their oppressive atmosphere. They capture the devastated human lives, using the most ordinary objects. Shopping bag with food hanging on the bars open window, laundry hanging on a clothesline in a desperately barren room or unmade beds have devastating symbolism. And everywhere they reside above all human beings, then to migrants or refugees.
Jarlbro is observant photographer, has an eye for detail and expressive shortcut. He understands the appeal of symbols can evoke in the viewer a lot more emotion than superficially with horror depicted on directives. People are probably already fed up with the world’s disasters, they see every night on television and melts them (maybe) latent allegory. Jan Šída.
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In number #33.
About the book refuge in Polka magazine
In number 524 Mars- April issue.
Abou the book Refuge.