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.
All images © Marcus Bleasdale
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