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New home for Iveta Jaslová

By Florian Manz | Published: Friday, 24. May 2013

Four month ago we visited the family of Iveta Jaslová in Usti Nad Labem in the Czech Republic. They were forced to leave the building they had lived in. The owner evicted the people – most of them Roma – by cutting off the water and electricity supply. Luckily the lawyer of Iveta found a new flat for the family. Now she lives in a better neighborhood in which not only Roma but also Czech and Vietnamese people are living. She pays much less rent then before and the apartment is in a way better condition.

JasloviUstiNadLabem

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taz photo column in may

By Lene Münch | Published: Friday, 10. May 2013

Every saturday in may I will shoot one picture under the title »white spot« for the photo column that is published in the Berlin part of the daily newspaper »taz«.

taz photo column – Lene Münch

Do you see the raindrops? It just started to rain when I was taking repros… damn!

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Royal Madness

By Julius Schrank | Published: Wednesday, 08. May 2013

it came as a nice surprise when we found out that we’d be covering the crowning of the new dutch King, Willem Alexander, together. Julius for De Volkskrant and Lucas for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
So it happened that we hit Amsterdam’s streets together during these days of orange madness. Hundreds of thousands of spectators came to witness the event. Security was tight because the events of Beatrix’ crowning 33 years ago were not forgotten. Back than the protest against the monarchy ended up with war like scenes on the Dam Square. In 2013 however, the anti monarchy protests in the capital were limited to a few dozen people.
Most people dressed up in orange, got pissed and partied like a bunch of lunatics. The two of us pushed ourselves through the jammed streets of the center as good as possible trying to capture the mood of the celebration. It was good fun but exhausting and after two days of it we were also glad to not only see orange anymore.

Koninginnedag - Den Holländischen Nationalfeiertag feiern viele Niederländer in orangefarbener Kleidung auf ausgelassenen Strassenpartys die Nacht hindurch in den Geburtstag von Königin Beatrix, die in diesem Jahr ihr Amt an ihren Sohn Willem übergibt

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Friday-Project: Kachin refugee violinists

By Julius Schrank | Published: Friday, 29. March 2013

This is a portrait series of some Kachin-refugees students in Laiza, northern Burma. It’s part of a story that I shot this months in the north-eastern part Kachin State, close to the Chinese boarder.

The kids are so called »IDP’s« (Internally displaced people) and live in a improvised Refugee-camp next to the school. The town of Laiza is under siege by the Burmese Army and was heavily shelled in January.

The Kachin-conflict erupted again in 2011 after almost two decades of ceasefire between the KIA (Kachin independence Army) and the Burmese regime.The fighting continues as I speak and lives are lost almost every day. In the western Media, there is no big interest in news about the struggle of the Kachin.

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Friday-Project: No place for Roma

By Florian Manz | Published: Friday, 22. March 2013

Iveta Jaslová stands with her back against the wall in her flat in Czech Ústí nad Labem. In a few hours she has to leave the building. ”I am scared of losing my children. I don’t know what to do” says the 45 year old Roma. The police wants to evict her and her four daughters and 13 grandchildren from her flat.
The resitential manager hired by the company Czech Propert Investments charget too much rent for the appartments. Iveta and her family had to pay twice as much as Czech citizens are paying for flats in a way better condidition. Now the company has to decorate the building. They decided to throw the residents out of the building instead. ”We don’t want such people here” says the speaker of the company Michaela Winklerova.
The landlords don’t want Romas in their buildings. The prejudices – they are dirty; they would steal and destroy the facilities – are wide spread. Social flats are rare. The few landlords in the north of the Czech Republic who offer flats for Roma take advantage of their sorrow. They charge high rents for flats in an unacceptable condition.
Eventually the police decides not to evict the building. Czech Property Investments cuts off the water and electricity supply. Many families already left the building. Iveta and their children are going to stay one more night in their appartment. Where they will stay tomorrow is yet uncertain.

Text: Timo Robben/ Sebastian Heidelberger

no place for roma

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Friday-Project: Yangon Street

By Lucas Wahl | Published: Friday, 15. March 2013

People were saying that before the »change« it was difficult to get in touch with locals in Yangon because many people were afraid to be seen talking to foreigners. I haven’t been there during those times however. The first time I went was during the by-elections in april 2012. Taxis would be full of stickers of the NLD, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, and many people seemed full of hope for a better future. I felt the place was vibrating, something was in the air.
The NLD won 43 out of 45 vacant seats and Aung San Suu Kyi entered the parliament.
Reforms started after that but it is a slow process and the military and their crownies still control many relevant sectors. During my second trip about half a year later many people said they were unsatisfied with the progress of the reform process.
I have had many interesting conversations with locals there. Many people are well educated and would want to talk to me about the finacial crisis in europe for example (a field I couldn’t tell them much about). I’d see people sitting in tea shops reading books, something I hadn’t seen in neighbouring Laos at all.
Yangon is a harbour city there are many former or still active seafarers that have been around the world. Many had been to my hometown Hamburg and their eyes would widen when remembering the »Reeperbahn« (a famous redlight district).

A young boy sucks his thumb in an elevator at the Shwedagon Pagoda.

View of an appartement building in downtown.

Young NLD supporters are seen in front of NLD’s Yangon headquarters.

A railway running through a poor neighbourhood in eastern Yangon.

Youths are jamming on the streets in downtown Yangon.

View of the Shwedagon Pagoda during a heavy monsoon downpour.

A young boy is feeding seagulls at the Yangon river.

An employee of the Yangon railway station is taking a nap in his office.

A woman is seen begging with her children on a stairway in downtown Yangon.

View of an appartement buildinng in downtown Yangon.

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Upcoming exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany

By Lene Münch | Published: Friday, 15. March 2013

My story The Apparatus will be shown in an exhibition organised by the BFF, the German Association of Freelance Photographers, from march 23 – april 14, 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany at the »Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg«.

From the series »The Apparatus« by Lene Münch

The opening of the exhibition Sternstunden der Fotografie will take place on Friday, march 22 at 7 pm during the legendary »night of the photographs«.

Next to the pictures of world famous photographers such as Anton Stankowski, David Douglas Duncan, Miles Aldridge, Reinhart Wolf, Werner Pawlok, Dietmar Henneka and Ralph Gibson the five winning series of the 24th international BFF promotion award by Helen Sobiralski »Cockaignesque«, Liang Gao »Einblicke.China«, Paula Markert »Die Verhältnisse«, Lene Münch »Der Apparat« and Philipp Peter Wülfing »Alzheimer« will be on show.

Sternstunden der Fotografie
the exhibition runs from march 23 until april 14, 2013
Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg
Willi Bleicher-Straße 19
70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Opening hours daily from 11 am to 8 pm.
No entrance fee.

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Published in GEOlino extra

By Florian Manz | Published: Monday, 25. February 2013

Nice job for GEOlino, a day with horses, explosions and action.

Florian Manz

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New York Edited – On the streets and beyond

By Lene Münch | Published: Tuesday, 19. February 2013

»New York Edited« is the result of a cooperation between the International Center of Photography in New York and the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. Every year the photo editor students from Berlin choose 12 stories that were shot by the ICP photojournalism and documentary photography students in New York, sequence it and layout a book or a magazine.

»New York Edited. On the streets and beyond« gives us an insight into the city that never runs out of interesting stories and fascinating people: beautiful, paralyzed, depressed, curious, blind, vivid, dangerous, busy, colorful, isolated, peaceful, precarious, divided, and proud are only some of the words to describe the diversity of people and places documented in this book. (From the foreword of the magazine, written by Nadja Masri, Head of the photo editors’ program at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin)

I’m thrilled to have my picture chosen as the cover image of this really beautiful magazine.

Run over the pages of the whole magazine here. My series starts at minute 1:27