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Konzept und Redaktion: Magdalena Freudenschuß
Director / Editor / Photography: Peter Steudtner
Together with the Mozambican NGO Justiça Ambiental / Friends of the Earth Mozambique, Peter Steudtner directed, filmed and edited a series of three short clips (4-6 minutes) supporting Justiça Ambiental’s “Letter of Allegation: Concerning human-rights abuses in the village of Cateme, Mozambique” handed in to Mrs. Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The films link up to Gregor Zielke’s series of photos “Promised Land”.
Justiça Ambiental Homepage
Justiça Ambiental Blog
Background Information:
In Mozambique, Vale operates the Moatize Coal Project in Moatize – Tete province. Between late 2009 and early 2010, when setting up this project, Vale displaced and resettled more than 1,300 families in the communities of Chipanga, Mithete, and Malabwe in the Moatize province. Apart from the loss of their land, these families also suffered health impacts as a result of the dust produced by Vale’s mining activities, changes in social relations, destruction of liveli- hoods, and radical changes in traditional cultures due to the resettlement. The resettlement process was mishandled from the beginning. Vale provided poor quality infrastructure and insufficient housing conditions with poor access to water. Furthermore, the land provided was inadequate for agricultural purposes, putting the nutrition of the communities at risk. Promises of compensation by Vale were not kept. The free movement of people and goods and the access to resources was restricted in the resettlement area. Vale is also accused of violating workers’ rights by keeping them in precarious and short-term contractual relationships, and risking workers’ health by exposing them to compounds that cause allergies and pain. Since then rights to food and subsistace, the right to adequate housing and political rights of the resettled communities have been violated continiously by Vale and the Mozambican Government.
Photography by Gregor Zielke
Gregor Zielke’s photo essay on resettled communities in Mozambique is featured in “The Guardian”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/mozambique-promised-land-photography
You can view the full essay here
Photography by Peter Steudtner
Photography by Peter Steudtner
December 2012, Kathmandu: Back again at the BIKALPA Aagan Community School, which is situated in one of the slum areas close to Kathmandu’s airport. More than 30 children attend the daily schooling activities which include always a hot meal.
After having been there in early 2009 and late 2011, it was again a marvelous experience to return the photographs I had taken during the previous visit to the same children still attending this very basic school. Again I was asked to take new portraits and the earnest way the children posed for the camera surprised me once more. Hope to come back again.
Photography: Peter Steudtner
My colleagues from the Albrecht Gündel-vom Hofe Jazz Sextett have made a wonderful CD with Jazz versions of old Hymns. You can enjoy their music, while having a look at the booklet with images I took during studio sessions and concerts in Berlin.
AND: There will be two upcoming concerts in Berlin to see them live: November 3rd and 19th. Click here for more information.
The CD will be available here soon.
Click here fo more impressions of the CD-Booklet
Design: Gregor Zielke
Concept, Coordination & Texts: Peter Steudtner
gorleben365: One year of civil disobedience. This was the promise of the organizers towards the German State and the company which is “exploring” the planned final nuclear waste disposal site in an old salt mine in Gorleben, Germany. As the salt mine is completely unsuited for such a final waste disposal site – as if there would be one in the world… – the nonviolent resisters from different groups from all over Germany and even one group from France made more than 100 blockades in front of the six gates of the construction site. More information on the campaign gorleben365 and the successor campaign gorleben365plusX here.
The exhibition is portraying the campaign and in the way it is designed on heavy truck canvas with the possibility of fitting it to steel cables in can be used as a blockading element on gates. It comprises of 27 banners on six main thematic issues relating to the six entrance gates to the construction site.
You can view the whole exhibition here.
Concept & Photography by Peter Steudtner
Design: Gregor Zielke
September 2012 Photoproject on the perspective of people living in palliative care. Together with Dr. Elisabeth Lohmann we captured the advantages and necessities of palliative care “through” the eyes of the patients. The result are now published as a mobile exhibition to raise awareness on “dying with dignity”.
Click here for a view on the complete exhibition
Click here for downloading the leaflet about the exhibition in German
Training by Peter Steudtner
November – December 2012 South Asia International Training on Nonviolence in the Context of War and Armed Conflict at Bikalpa, Nepal, in cooperation with KURVE Wustrow worked out to be a success for the 18 participants from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Photography by Gregor Zielke
New in the archive! In China, Traces of German History – the small town of Qingdao was once occupied by German forces. The city has grown to a population of over 8 million but remains of former German governance are still visible in the old town and are even being preserved and restored.
ESoDoc – European Social Documentary, is a training initiative offered by ZeLIG School for Documentary and supported by the European Union’s MEDIA Programme. Peter Steudtner from panphotos.org has been accepted to take part in this year’s program with two project proposals:
1 – Dying at home: Between normality, poverty and palliative care in Mozambique and
Germany. A documentary film (45 min) with cross media elements (audio and photo) as a TVversion
and an “interactive” / rich-media DVD-/Web-Version.
2 – Mining • Power • Development: Chances and risks of extractive (coal) industries in
Germany and Mozambique seen through the eyes of the affected and profiting
communities. A participative video project with social documentary film elements.
Photography by Gregor Zielke
27.2.2012 published in Jüdische Allgemeine
»Ich bin nicht die Comedy-Polizei«
Oliver Polak über seine neue Live-Show, eine Reise nach New York und die Gründe, warum er jetzt auch noch singt
Photography by Peter Steudtner
Ramallah, Palestine, 15 May 2011: While protesters and refugees cross the Israeli borders from Jordania and Syria, while nonviolent Palestinian protesters are teargassed and shot at the Qualandiya checkpoint, in the city center of Ramallah the Nakba – the catastrophy of the evictions of Palestinians during the creation of Israeli state in 1948 – is remembered and mourned.
The look and feel of the demonstration from the Arafat memorial towards the city center is more like a popular festival. Politicians and students, organized and spontaneous celebrate the new emerging powerful identity as part of the “arab spring”.
Photography by Peter Steudtner
Bethlehem, Palestine, May 2011: Palestinian-Israeli youth encounters, nonviolence as resistance, concerts in the garden, planting flowers against the concrete wall: The Palestinian Center for Conflict Resolution Wi’am is located directly aside the wall. Overlooked by the Israeli control tower all activities of the center are intended to show humanity and solidarity and at the same time fighting nonviolently for the Palestinian cause. Together with International Peace Workers the Center also accompanies and trains local and regional activists of the resistance against the wall and the settlements. It is supported from Germany within the Civil Peace Service program of the Center for Networking and Training for Nonviolent Action, KURVE Wustrow, which brings experiences with nonviolent action from the Anti-Nuclear-Resistance.
More informations:
Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center
KURVE Wustrow – Center for Training and Networking in Nonviolent Action
Photography by Peter Steudtner
Al Ma’sara, Palestine, 13 May 2011. Accompanying the peaceful march of the Palestine village of Al Ma’sara, close to Bethlehem, towards their land, which was cofiscated and occupated by Israeli troops.
Outside the village the Israeli occupation forces closed entrances to the village and dispersed the demonstrators. The Israeli occupation forces arrested Hassan Ahmed Briggih, coordinator of the national committee against the wall. Also two Israeli peace activists were taken to an unknown destination. Some people were injured as a result of the occupation forces attacks, using physical violence, tear gas, and sound bombs during the suppression of the march.
The theme of the demonstration was the 63 anniversary of the Nakba – the catastrophy of the forced eviction of Palestinian people during the formation of the Israeli state in 1948.
Further Information: Combatants for Peace <www.cfpeace.org>
Photography by Peter Steudtner
February 2012 The Albrecht Gündel-vom-Hofe Sextet live at Schloth, Berlin.
Greg Ambroisine – Trumpet
Uwe Steinmetz – Alto Sax
Finn Wiesner – Tenor Sax
Albrecht Gündel-vom Hofe – Piano
Robin Draganic – Bass
Ray Kaczynski – Drums
The AGvH-Sextet live at Schloth – All Photos
Talking and listening Jazz – The musicians in dialogue
Photography by Gregor Zielke
György Konrád, Hungarian Author and Shoa survivor
Photography by Gregor Zielke
New in the archive! Urbanization in China – a story about rapid transition from villages to cities in eastern China.
Audio & Text: Magdalena Freudenschuss
Photography & Editing: Peter Steudtner
Participants from the Advanced Courses for Nonviolence run by Schalomdiakonat / gewaltfrei handeln e.V. talk about their experiences during the courses and what they did with what they learned and experienced afterwards in their personal and professional lifes. The slideshows combine audio-interviews with pictures from their private and working life spheres into intense close-up portraits. The articles, combined with photos, give condensed insights into their experiences with nonviolence.
More informations at gewaltfrei handeln e.V.
Photography by Peter Steudtner
November 2011, Kathmandu: The BIKALPA Aagan Community School is situated in one of the slum areas close to Kathmandu’s airport. More than 30 children attend the daily schooling activities which include always a hot meal.
After having been there in early 2009, it was a marvelous experience to return the photographs I had taken two years ago to the same children still attending this very basic school. Again I was asked to take new portraits and the earnest way the children posed for the camera surprised me once more. Hope to come back soon.
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