Dans ce nouveau numéro en couleur de la revue PRIVATE, la dégradation de l’environnement nous est relatée en images par des photographes de renommée internationale. Nous voyageons à travers le monde et constatons l’étendue du lourd tribut humain et écologique de la “croissance économique”.
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This issue of PRIVATE takes us on a journey across the world, highlighting the human and environmental costs of “development”.
It tells a story of environmental degradation and gives a voice to some of the forgotten peoples who are paying the price.
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Le fotografie pubblicate in questo numero di PRIVATE ci guidano in viaggio per il mondo, mettendo in evidenza il costo u...
Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Dean Sewell, Steven Siewert, Tamara Voninski...
In 1999, after 25 years of Indonesian rule, the people of East Timor went to the polls to vote in a referendum offering Independence or self-autonomy. The resistance and protracted guerrilla war that ensued Indonesia’s invasion in 1976 had resulted in an estimated 100 000 people dead and the East Timorese overwhelmingly voted for full independence. In response, military backed Militia, loyal to Indonesia, went on a rampage, destroying 70% of the country’s infrastructure and forcing an estimated 300 000 people across the border into Indonesian West Timor.
Order was returned after the intervention of the Australian led InterFET force and Timor started its path to independence under the guidance of the United Nations. The 20th of May 2002 saw the birth of the 21st century’s newest Nation, Timor Leste, b...