Buch zur Situation psychisch erkrankter Menschen in verschiedenen Ländern Afrikas. Fotografien aus Somalia, Südsudan, Kenia, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Uganda und Nigeria. Das Buch enthält neben den Bildern auch Texte von Betroffenen, Angehörigen und Mitarbeitern der psychiatrischen Einrichtungen.
Verlagstext:
„Condemned by Robin Hammond is a fruit of the 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award.
Hammond captures both the deplorable conditions that the mentally ill endure and the overwhelming challenge that mental health workers face with limited resources and inadequate or failed systems health care systems in which the mentally ill have the lowest priority.
Interviews with both the incarcerated mentally ill and those working to heal them – secular mental health workers and both Christian and Muslim faith healers – provide blunt evidence of the past trauma and current suffering of his subjects and the challenges and frustration of those struggling with limited resources to find ways to address the needs of vast numbers of mentally ill. Shame and prejudice based on traditional and religious beliefs about mental illness add cultural obstacles to the effective treatment of the mentally ill in many regions of Africa.
Condemned includes work shot in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan and Uganda. Hammond produced this work over a period of seven years using his own resources, support from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and finally using crowd funding to complete the project.“
Vortrag des Fotografen zum Thema, veröffentlicht auf Youtube:
Informationen zu einer Ausstellung beim Festival in Perpignan:
Buchinfo:
Robin Hammond:
Condemned. Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis
New York 2015, FotoEvidence Press
ISBN 978-0-9894866-0-6, fotoillustriertes Hardcover
134 Seiten, 67 Abbildungen in S/W, 30 cm x 19,5 cm 2. Auflage signiertes Exemplar
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