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Photojournalism’s Changing Relationship with Conflict

Chris Much Bermudez

“The Forensic Turn” and “Media and Myth: Mass Media and the Vietnam War” exhibitions, curated by Paul Lowe, Monica Alcazar-Duarte and Ziyah Gafić, explore different angles in war journalism and the stories told by depictions of conflict. On June 30th, as part of the 2015 WARM Festival, the Post-Conflict Research Center’s (PCRC) Velma Šarić joined the curators for a tour of both exhibitions and a panel discussion on contemporary depictions of conflict and the role that art plays in reconciling the violent past.

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El Salvador's Bloody June

Michael Busch

This past month was the bloodiest yet for El Salvador in a year marked by spiking violence and insecurity. Some 677 people were murdered during June, many of them victimized by ongoing battles between the country’s gangs, and the gangs and government forces. In total, the lives of nearly 3,000 people have been claimed by violence in the first half of 2015 alone.

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Maidan: A Revolution in a Hundred Portraits

Marion Pineau

On July 1st, the exhibition “Maydan-Hundred Portraits” opened at Duplex 100m2 gallery as a part of the 2015 WARM Festival in Sarajevo. Two days later, a discussion with the photographer, Emeric Lhuisset, took place at Kino Meeting Point.

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