starving people in Ethiopia, traumatized US veterans, the Vietnamese, with their by the plant poison-damaged children: Till Mayer’s areas of impressive reports and photos from the war.
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Till Mayer has to endure a lot and keeps a lot on his travels. In drought-stricken Ethiopia, he hits 2000 to starving people who are only skin and bones. In 2004, he visited the impoverished refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in 2017 he is severely damaged in Mosul in Iraq on-the-go.
For more than twenty years ago the Journalist and photographer traveling during his vacation time in crisis regions. In doing so, he documented with his camera, especially the long-term consequences of conflicts and Wars. Now, a literary cross-section of his work: an image band, in the numerous Black-and-White photographs and informative accompanying texts illustrate three of his ten “Dark journeys”.
Mayer is local editor of the Franconian upper main journal and freelance mirror Online, therefore, is neither a war correspondent nor the media cynics, the lives of bad news from all over the world.
Till Mayer: Dark journeys. Erich Verlag, Bamberg 2018 White. 128 Pages, 109 Illustrations, 15 Euro.
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His Motivation goes back up to the young scout actions and the participation in a relief goods transport to Bosnia to the destroyed Mostar:
“Quickly, I learned that war is not an adventure. I met people, whom he had taken everything. Your home, your family, your friends. Parts of your body, if grenade or mine explosions in hands and feet, arms and legs were torn off … I looked into the eyes of people who were killed. Slowly, I learned what it means when the war eats the soul.”
In the book is a lot about the offender and the victim from the Vietnam war. To see the density of recordings from Chicago and Quang Nam.
There are insights into the arduous life of a traumatized U.S. veterans and a Vietnamese mother with her children; they are physically and mentally harmed by the toxic defoliant Agent Orange once sprayed by the American military. Mayer was Photographing close to the people in it, yet he portrayed sensitively.
prove, Moreover, his prose notes as a critical micro-historian. The example of a simple people, he illustrates aspects of global sadness. A presentation, which brought the American author Raymond Chandler, so to the point: “The best way to comment on large things is to comment on small things.” The Large in the Small clear what is meant by this.
The small things are often what needy people are happy. Till Mayer in addition to his journalistic work, the Red cross and the Red Crescent. The gratitude he feels, gives him power, and all the unbearable misery and to continue to make a “Dark journeys”.