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Armenian Genocide, 100 years of Pain (teaser)

Redazione — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:48 +0000

[estratto in italiano: Alfons Rodríguez, il nostro amico e membro S4C, dopo l’enorme successo del suo ultimo reportage “El Tercer Jinete” – Il Terzo Cavaliere – sta affrontando una storia dimenticata. Il genocidio armeno è un vero e proprio paradigma dell’oblio; un olocausto dimenticato in cui hanno perso la vita un milione e mezzo di persone. Ad oggi, sono pochi i sopravvissuti me le ferite sono ancora aperte in chi è rimasto e nei loro discendenti. Alfons, dopo aver raccontato le ferite aperte nei Balcani, è alle prese con questa operazione di recupero storico, per rendere giustizia a ciò che è stato. Questo è il teaser di quella che si preannuncia una grande storia]

Armenian Genocide, 100 years of Pain (teaser)

By alfons rodríguez (S4C Spain Representative)

Armenia, paradigm of the oblivion. A sad example of historical memory nonexistence. Many, have considered it as the other Holocaust.

In 1915, a dark and cruel act was committed on his population. 1.500.000 Armenians were massacred by Ottoman hands. A genocide scarcely recognized by the international community, obviously by geopolitical motives and economic interests. But the indignation comes, overall, from Turkish denial to recognize those acts as a former genocide.

(a preview from Alfons Rodriguez latest ongoing project in Armenia)

Now, almost 100 years after such atrocity, the country continues with an opened wound.
Have been 100 years of pain.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 100 YEARS OF PAIN -TEASER from ALFONS RODRIGUEZ on Vimeo.

Today just a few survivors of the genocide are still alive. But hundreds of thousands of descendants, who cannot forget the suffering of their dear beings are living in and out of Armenia. Remembering with sorrow and outrage. The following generations have been deeply marked by those facts.

Every April 24th, the tragedy is commemorated through an important and emotive act in the capital, Yerevan. This documentary reportage approaches and shows the psychological and historical traces let by the genocide. The protagonists, the diaspora’ s voice and the hope and illusion of reconstructing a past and a singular History. Shows the social current context of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, the neighboring state from armenian origin, in dispute with Azerbaijan, across commonness, peoples and places.

alfons rodríguez

The award to a S4Cer (Alfons Rodriguez)

Redazione — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:17:43 +0000

Last week I wrote about the annoucement of the National Award of Social and Solidary Feature, in Spain, being attributed to Alfons Rodriguez for his reportage: “Srebrenica, the pain continues ”.

Alfons has been awarded the prize a few days ago:

(Alfons being awarded the Prize)

Alfons is a great person and, altough we’ve never met in person yet, I had the lucky chance to exchange thoughts and ideas on social photography in the past year of life of Shoot 4 Change. He knows better. He knows what it means to witness sad and dramatic events. And, yet, he does it with a gentle touch.

Again, Alfons, congratulations!

Antonio

SOCCER STORIES, SOUTH AFRICA

Redazione — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:33:42 +0000

SOCCER STORIES

SOUTH AFRICA

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(ITALIANO: una storia sudafricana che ci viene raccontata dal fotoreporter s4c Alfons Rodriguez (Barcellona) e che intreccia temi sociali quali integrazione sociale e razziale, lotta all’aids ed alla discriminazione sessuale. Ancora una volta lo sport, il calcio (alla vigilia dei Mondiali sudafricani) è la cornice per storie importanti)

Three ways to use the football to improve the social situation of the lowest and affected classes of the South Africans. A very different point of view from the one that is going to be of the country during the celebration of the World Cup 2010.

Just less than one month from the World Cup, South Africa only lives for the football. There is no corner of the country without clocks that participants peel the countdown, vests and flags of the teams, balls of all the imaginable sizes or “vuvuzelas” – the long trumpets of plastic that they deafen in the local fields-. But the most popular sport among the black South Africans comes being used for years in projects that seek to improve the life of the most disadvantaged.

In Gaansbai, close to the bay where tourists of the whole world pay fortunes for seeing the white sharks, an initiative supported by the Foundation Marcos Senna will keep away 4.000 minors of the streets of Masakhane’s wretched suburb to transmit values of living together and healthy habits.

In Gugulethu, township near Cape Town, a match it is played between two teams of lesbians, group that finds in the sport a refuge opposite to aggressions of which it is an object – that the terrible corrective violations include-. Alexandra, Johannesburg’s black township, will receive during the World Cup one the Football for Hope Festival, supported by the FIFA, who will bring together 32 teams of street football of five continents. A communicator prepares young men and women from the suburb to cover the event as journalists, while a project: Football for local Hope teaches to prevent the infection of the VIH to the children of the most affected country by AIDS of the whole planet.

Three different histories in which soccer opens a door for the hope, beyond winning or losing a match.

BY ALFONS RODRÍGUEZ