But the road is dark. Fear will be your constant companion; uncertainty the jacket you wrap yourself in to protect against the night. I’ve come to live with these things, to accept, if not love, the feelings I get when I board a plane or train or boat destined for a foreign land armed only with the hope that if everything goes right I might have a chance. Of course often the best laid plans do often go astray. You find yourself off the map, not quite where dragons lie but close [...]
The space in which long form and documentary photojournalism exists is continuing to shrink and until the next venue which can support this work becomes a reality more and more people are leaving this field. Of even more concern is that while there are many committed photojournalists who stubbornly keep doing the work that is important to them it is increasingly becoming difficult to do that work. If a story is too obscure, too far away or not in a hot spot, no one, at least in the newspaper and magazine world, wants to pay for [...]
Lunch at a reeducation camp. Rwanda 1999. © Damaso Reyes
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A young boy discovers a skull of a victim of the Rwandan Genocide. © Damaso Reyes
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To commemerate the 10th anniversary of the genocide Rwandans serach for a mass grave behind a hospital. 2004 © Damaso Reyes
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