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"If Paris were a person, her face would be that of an older women
with conflicting lines etched upon it of hope and despair." Until
recent years, Paris was the vanguard city of the world. today the
hybrid of Paris/Modernity is fading, with competition form cities
of the east like Dubai and Shanghai, architectural grandeur and
innovation is outplayed in scale and ambition. In these
photographs, Jarret Schecter attempts to understand the future by
glancing at the past. He stalks time, depicting the fractured
pieces that Paris has left behind. Progress, melancholy and the
past are most visibly profound in Paris, yet also profound elegance
and understanding of the history if its streets. Scheter examines
the city's changing, diverse population and its architecture, both
young and old, the book functioning as a dialogue between past and
present. He photographs people and places that have undergone
massive change, or places that are still the same after decades; as
such feeling he was really 'stalking' Paris, discovering the
grandeur, however faded, and mystery of the city that outlives its
younger counterparts.
???????????? Katrina, a natural hurricane, struck New Orleans on
August 29th 2005. ???????????? Nobody envisaged the damage and
destruction it would wreak on the southern US city, and it became
on a much greater scale a manmade disaster of civil engineering and
social discrimination. ???????????? Because of government failure,
millions viewed political ineptitude, social inequity and an
unpaved America where the streets were lined with anything but
gold. ???????????? The images in this book show the abandoned and
hardest-hit district of the Lower Ninth Ward, now over two years
later, and still counting. ???????????? Vacant and dilapidated, the
city is a shadow of its former self. However, in these seemingly
lifeless shadows, and through the broken windows of empty houses,
one can eerily see the ghostly reflections of life and death in the
form of PER SONAL OBJECT S. ???????????? These intensely personal
items have been abandoned and left, and in most cases, will never
be reclaimed. ???????????? This small format book touches on the
ephemeral, and surprisingly often beautiful, remnants of belongings
that once made up the memories and precious moments of peoples'
lives.
In the Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia there is a camp of
approximately 10,000 souls. Officially Ethiopian but ethnically
Somali, they are not classified as refugees but as Internally
Displaced Peoples, or IDPs, and thus live without even the marginal
assistance that the UN can offer. The number of IDPs worldwide is
far greater than is widely known, and far greater than that of
officially recognized refugees--IDPs number near the population of
Canada. Africa's tragedy lies not just in corruption, poverty,
wars, droughts and famine, as if they were not enough. It lies also
in the profound inability of Western societies, desperate to help
with or without their politicians, to understand tribal and nomadic
claims to the land. Jarret Schecter's Displaced in Denan is a
record of the camp in Ogaden and the efforts of a small town in
Connecticut to help the people there: it ends in hope that
individuals can overcome bureaucracy.
Eight out of ten blind people live in the developing world, and the
vast majority of this blindness is preventable. These facts
constitute A Journey in Sight, a project by photographer Jarret
Schecter who was astounded by the conditions he witnessed in
Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries. Here Schecter
illuminates the link between poverty and blindness--40 million
people suffer from preventable blindness that arises from Vitamin A
deficiency, unsanitary conditions, minimal health care, and other
issues. Presented are touching and heartfelt images of these
persons in their habitats. But this isn't merely a journey into the
world's less fortunate regions--a percentage of each sale of A
Journey in Sight will be donated to Orbis, an organization that
provides free or inexpensive eye treatment to people who needlessly
suffer from preventable blindness.
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