Aubrey Wade

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Aubrey Wade
Born 1977 (age 40–41)
Nationality British
Occupation Photographer
Partner(s) Sarah Böttcher [1]
Website www.aubreywade.com

Aubrey Wade (born 1977) is a British photographer and photojournalist / documentary photographer [1] best known for his work in Niger and Sierra Leone. He is affiliated with the Panos Pictures photo agency. [2] Wade carries out long-term documentary projects, assignments for publications, and projects for NGOs. He lives in London and Berlin. [1] [3]

Niger republic in Western Africa

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa named after the Niger River. Niger is bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin to the southwest, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2 (490,000 sq mi), making it the largest country in West Africa. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara Desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of about 21 million live mostly in clusters in the far south and west of the country. The capital city is Niamey, located in Niger's southwest corner.

Sierra Leone republic in West Africa

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, informally Salone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a total area of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi) and a population of 7,075,641 as of the 2015 census. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. The country's capital and largest city is Freetown. Sierra Leone is made up of five administrative regions: the Northern Province, North West Province, Eastern Province, Southern Province and the Western Area. These regions are subdivided into sixteen districts.

Panos Pictures is a photo agency based in London and founded in 1986. It specialises in stories about global social issues for international media and NGOs using photography and video. It also produces exhibitions and long-term documentary projects. As of September 2015, Adrian Evans is its director and has a controlling share in the company.

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Career

Wade is an "Anglo-Dutchman", [4] born to British parents in the Netherlands. [2] He studied social anthropology at Sussex University and thereafter returned to college to study photojournalism at the University of the Arts London. [2] His work focuses mainly on peace building, marginalised communities and human rights.

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He is interested in storytelling by photography and is committed to long-term projects. [2] He uses documentary photography to explore complex nets of social issues, such as the refugee crisis in Europe. [1] This approach helps the audience to connect with his subjects and their experiences. His work is based on field-based research and collaborative processes. Wade has worked across Africa, the United States, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia.

European migrant crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union to seek asylum

The European migrant crisis or refugee crisis is a term given to a period beginning in 2013 when rising numbers of people arrived in the European Union (EU) from across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe. It is part of a pattern of increased immigration to Europe from other continents which began in the mid-20th century and which has encountered resistance in many European countries.

Wade spent seven years exploring the lives of former fighters and marginalized youths in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, following the end of the war. [2]

Freetown Place in Western Area, Sierra Leone

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,055,964 at the 2015 census.

His most notable project is the ongoing No Stranger Place, documenting people in Austria, Germany and Sweden that voluntary housed refugees of the 2015 migrant crisis with them when state facilities were over-run. [1] [5] [6] [7] [8] The series of portraits "places all the members of the host family alongside their adopted one [ . . . ] In some of the images it's difficult to make a distinction between host family and asylum seeker, therefore challenging the perception of refugees as 'outsiders'." [1] The project was begun by Wade and his partner, the writer Sarah Böttcher, and they later partnered with UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), whose aims it mirrored, and other organisations were also brought in. [1] [5]

Austria Federal republic in Central Europe

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in Central Europe comprising 9 federated states. Its capital, largest city and one of nine states is Vienna. Austria has an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi), a population of nearly 9 million people and a nominal GDP of $477 billion. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 m (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other regional languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.

Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Sweden constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.

The "three-part 20-minute docu-drama", Talking Borders (2010), [9] was co-written and produced by Wade. This fictional adaptation of a long-term field research by UK-based Conciliation Resources looks at the tension in the Mano River border region of West Africa. It was used in an outreach programme by the organisation, screening the film over the course of a year in the region. [10]

Conciliation Resources is an independent organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence and build peace, providing advice, support and practical resources. It also takes the lessons learned to government decision-makers and others working to end the conflict to improve peacebuilding policies and practice worldwide.

Mano River river in west Africa

The Mano River is a river in West Africa. It originates in the Guinea Highlands in Liberia and forms part of the Liberia-Sierra Leone border.

He is affiliated with Panos Pictures, a photo agency based in London. [2]

Wade's work has appeared regularly in weekend supplements to London newspapers The Telegraph, [11] The Guardian , [12] The Observer , The Sunday Times and The Independent . He has also been published in magazines Foto8, [13] mare, D (La Repubblica delle Donne), Le Point, Smithsonian and The Fader.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Radwanska Zhang, Izabela (2016). "No Stranger Place: a new family portrait". British Journal of Photography . Apptitude Media. 163 (7853): 89–92.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Aubrey Wade". Panos Pictures . Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Aubrey Wade. "aubrey wade: biography" . Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Zadie Smith, "Letter from Liberia", The Guardian, 28 April 2007.
  5. 1 2 "Refugees and their European hosts – in pictures". London: The Guardian. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Joanna Bostock: No Stranger Place, Portraits of refugees in Austria and the locals who have welcomed them into their homes and families. , FM4 (Vienna), September 5, 2016, retrieved on October 2, 2016
  7. ↑ Die Zeit (Hamburg): "Die neuen Mitbewohner aus Homs und Rakka", 2 September 2016 (German)
  8. ↑ CNN: "The people sharing their homes with refugees", 4 September 2016
  9. ↑ "Talking borders". Conciliation Resources . Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Talking Borders: The outreach programme". Conciliation Resources . Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  11. ↑ For example, "Nepal: Oxfam reaching remote communities in a race against the monsoon", The Telegraph .
  12. ↑ For example, "Sierra Leone: law and order meets traditional justice – in pictures", The Guardian.
  13. ↑ See for example volume 3, number 4, Foto8, 17 March 2005.
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