 In november 2008, Jean Mohr covered the International Media North-South Forum in the cultural center of Jaïpur Jawahar Kala Kendra (India) with debates, documentary films, exhibitions and cultural events. |
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Camarada – Planète femmes |
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There are no translations available. Exposition de photographies
Cette exposition est mise en place par le service de la communication audiovisuelle (HETS-savi) de la Haute école de travail social de Genève en collaboration avec l’Association Camarada qui fête, cette année, ses 25 ans d’existence. C’est dans le cadre des divers évènements organisés pour cet anniversaire que le savi a apporté sa contribution dans le cadre de ses prestations de services.
Après un passage à La Comédie de Genève, cette exposition de photographies Camarada – Planète femmes aura lieu dans l’«Espace Galerie» de notre site de formation HES, du 28 avril au 30 mai. Cet espace sera donc réservé au magnifique travail photographique de Jean Mohr durant cette période. Ce sera également l’occasion pour les enseignant-e-s d’apporter des contributions aux étudiant-e-s, de favoriser des échanges dans divers modules de cours HES autour du thème de l’intégration des migrant-e-s en Suisse et en Europe (près d’un million et demi d’étranger-e-s vivent en Suisse, soit 21 % de la population).
Texte de Jean Mohr pour cette exposition:
D’une part, il y a des femmes en provenance des quatre coins du monde, avec un point commun : elles se retrouvent à Genève, un peu perdues, piégées en quelque sorte, avec des problèmes de langue et de coutumes locales.
D’autre part, des femmes, souvent bénévoles, qui vivent et travaillent dans cette cité à la fois calviniste et internationale, et qui ont pris la décision un jour de venir en aide à ces migrantes en leur consacrant une partie de leur temps.
Et cela, en dehors de tout cadre politique ou religieux.
C’est ça le petit miracle « Camarada ».
Pour fêter le 25ème anniversaire de cette « institution », on m’a invité à réaliser un reportage photographique sur cette rencontre entre deux mondes, apparemment antinomiques.
Plaidait en ma faveur:
• mon âge respectable (figure du père)
• mon enfance à Genève en qualité d’étranger (bien que natif de la ville)
• mon parcours professionnel qui m’a permis de connaître la plupart des pays dont sont originaires les femmes du Centre.
C’est avec beaucoup de plaisir que j’ai réalisé ce reportage photographique, à la fois comme témoin et comme complice. –– Jean Mohr
Lieu de l’exposition: «Espace Galerie», Haute école de travail social, 16 rue Pré-Jérôme, Genève
Vernissage: lundi 28 avril 2008 à 17 heures, avec la présence de Jean Mohr et des membres de l’Association Camarada
Ouverture au public: du 28 avril au 30 mai 2008, du lundi au vendredi de 8 à 19 heures. |
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Israelis and Palestinians Side by Side or Face to Face |
Israelis and Palestinians Side by Side or Face to Face
50 years of photography by Jean Mohr
It's a travelling exhibition which has been opened first in Jerusalem and then in Ramallah, Bethleem and Gaza, later on in Geneva at the Red Cross Museum and after in London, in Moscow, in Dunkerque, in Sofia, in Luxembourg and continue to travel to many different countries. Next soon in Polen. A book is published with the same title in french and english.
More information :
www.icrc.org
www.micr.ch
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The travelling exhibition PHOTOSUISSSE has been shown already in the Swiss Centre for Culture in Roma, in the contemporary museo from Ascona, in the Pasquart Centre in Bienne and will continue to travel in Switzerland and abroad.
PHOTOSUISSSE is a collection of 28 photographers, who create their own visual worlds. It includes young shooting-stars as well as established figures, who have decisively influenced important developments of the past thirty years.
This fascinating survey is a tribute to contemporary Swiss photography and is presented in two complementary media :
- in film portraits on two DVDs the photographers introduce their world of personal images, generously allowing insight into their creative process;
- the book concentrates on the photography itself showing important works by each exponent in a musée imaginaire.
PHOTOSUISSSE Book and DVD has been published in four languages, french, german, italian and english on the initiative of the Swiss TV channels SRG-SSR-TSI. The Swiss Fondation for Photography played an important role in providing specialist knowledge. Institutions from the different regions in Switzerland -the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, the Museo Cantonale di Lugano and the Fotomuseum Winterthur - assisted the producers of PHOTOsuisse.
More information: www.lars-mueller-publishers.com
Contact organisation:
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Reporters without Borders |
Reporters without Borders
Swiss photographers for press freedom.
Book : Liberté Freiheit Libertà (pages 32 to 38)
More information: www.rsf-ch.ch
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Larousse : Freedom, the power to act or not to act |
What to do when this freedom becomes a malediction and when one doesn't feel the strength to assume it, to face up to it?
The urban jungle is pitiless towards the weak. Some of them end up dreaming of a haven, even temporary, of a break in the breathless fight for survival.
Karachi, Pakistan, a metropolis where the number of inhabitants oscillates around fifteen millions. It is there that Edhi, nick-named "the male Mother Theresa" has decided to help the rejected people, distributing more than a million free meals a day and saving lives thanks to his armada of ambulances more efficient than those run by the State.
And there are also the famous "Edhi centres" which welcome the mentally handicapped, child pickpockets, repudiated wives, abandoned old people.
Yet these refuges are anything but idyllic and rather evoke the waiting room of hell. Nevertheless they are transitory haven of peace.
True freedom has its value and it has to be built.
Often with the help of others.
Jean Mohr |
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Beside his work as a photo-reporter, Jean Mohr went on searching in a more aesthetical aeria. After the exhibition "The other memorie" in the Rath Museum of Geneva, where he was presenting a range of aesthetical researches in colour he is actually working more and more in this field. |
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- To see or to be seen: an essay on portraits made out of studio with texts and photo by Jean Mohr. This work is finished, waiting for a publisher.(contact:
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- South of France:: a subjective approach of South of France by two Swiss citizens. Texts by Serge Schmidt, Photos by Jean Mohr. This work is finished waiting for a publisher.
- Out of way: pictures made in marge of some travelling exhibitions and public speeches in different countries.
- Natural installations: interactions between contemporary art and daily life). Project of exhibition (color and black and white) searching a space to welcome this exhibition. |
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