#159 CAMERA Book Review: Robin Hammond: Zimbabwe: Your Wounds Will Be Named Silence

A look through Robin Hammond's Zimbabwe: Your Wounds Will Be Named Silence.
Recipient of the 2011 Carmignac Gestion photojournalism prize, highlights the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe and the trials of the people who suffered the repression, violence and atrocities committed under President Mugabe's regime

Hardcover: 151 pages
Publisher: Actes Sud; Bilingual edition (30 April 2013)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 2 x 29 cm

Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to amplifying narratives of marginalised groups through long term visual story telling projects.

Career recognition includes the winning of two World Press Photo prizes, the RF Kennedy Journalism Award, six Pictures of the Year International Awards, the W.Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the recipient of six Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism and being named by Foreign Policy as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers.

He is the founder of Witness Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing human rights through visual story telling.

His work on discrimination against the LGBTQI+ community around the world, Where Love Is Illegal, has become a popular social media campaign. It has been exhibited around the world, featured in many publications including on the cover of Time Magazine and National Geographic. The work led to him addressing the United Nations in 2018 to promote a campaign to end the extrajudicial execution and torture of LGBTQI+ individuals.

His work on mental health conditions and neurological disorders, In My World, has been used to influence governments and corporations to consider the rights of some of the most vulnerable members on the planet.

Robin is a National Geographic Explorer and contributing photographer.

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