MARCUS BLEASDALE | PHOTOGRAPHER

MARCUS BLEASDALE IS A DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER

WHO USES HIS WORK TO INFLUENCE POLICY MAKERS AROUND THE WORLD.

Over the past fifteen years spent documenting some of the world’s most brutal wars Marcus has focused on campaigning against human rights abuses. He have been documenting these issues for Human Rights Watch and he is a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine.

Using his background in business and economics, he researches the sources of financing driving the conflicts, which usually leads to the mines, and the armed networks linked to them. Marcus covered the wars in Sierra Leone, Liberia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Somalia, Chad and Darfur, Kashmir and Georgia.

Since 2000 Marcus has worked extensively in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo documenting a war funded by the extraction of the minerals used in every day electronic products. Marcus has partnered with international advocacy groups Human Rights Watch and the Enough Project to engage US and European politicians and multinational companies to change government policy and working practices.

Over the past two years Marcus has been working in the Central African Republic documenting the conflict in the region. The work from Central African Republic won the Amnesty International Award for Media in 2014 and the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2015.

Marcus has published three books "One Hundred Years of Darkness" documenting life along the Congo River after the overthrow of Mboutu  "The Rape of a Nation" documenting the exploitation of natural resources in Eastern Congo and most recently "The Unravelling" documenting the brutal conflict in the Central African Republic.

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RAPE OF A NATION

Oro, diamanti e materie preziose, fonte di benessere per un pugno di uomini, in Africa sanno trasformarsi nella causa della morte di milioni di persone, e nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo (Rdc) addirittura nella piaga più sanguinosa dai tempi della seconda guerra mondiale. Una realtà a cui l’inglese Marcus Bleasdale, dell’agenzia fotografica VII e Mediastorm ha dedicato The Rape of a Nation, menzione d’onore a Anthropographia 2010.

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. In Rape of a Nation, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale explores the connection. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/rape-of-a-nation

By Marcus Bleasdale

http://mediastorm.com/contributor/marcus-bleasdale/31

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