“At the beginning of May 2017 the final at the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Kiev, a song contest seen by 204 million people around the world. At the same time in the same country there is an ongoing war that forced more than a million people to flee and several million in need for humanitarian aid…”
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I am Happy to be part of India’s first photobook festival with my two latest books “Refuge” and “Syria the War within”
Short interview with me and about the books here…Read here
Photos from the festival ” Dehradun Edition” Visit here
Reportage about the Brick factories outside Katmandu valley , Nepal.
I will talk about my two latest books, human aspect of war and portraying war in pictures…
Thursday 16 feb 2017 18:00 – 20:00 Landskrona museum
Reportage about The drug war in the Philippines.
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“The black and white pictures take us to the run-down camps where waiting and boredom prevails. Children and adults seated and located in the scantily furnished room. Time passes slowly while waiting for news from home or on what will happen in the new country. They do what you need and nothing else. Clothes should be washed and food to be cooked. The pictures are still compositions exude silence in a way that loudly contrasts with the war existence, the people have fled…“
Anders Alm
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”From the decade-long nepali civil war between Maoist in insurgents and government forces, to the more recent armed conflict in the streets of Syria, Swedish photographer Olof Jarlbro has been on the front lines of the world’s most contentious hotspots, documenting those issues that speak to the universal and essential aspirations for political and social justice….” Richard Pitnick
“Describing Syria as hell on earth is not at all far-fetched…It’s a nasty place, and death will constantly breathing down your neck”
Interview in Institute of Independent Journalism in Czech Republic- Hlidaci Pes
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Happy to announce that my work about the conflict in Ukraine has been awarded working grant from the Helge Axelsson foundation.
Phone: +46 76 257 18 10
email: info@olofjarlbro.net
