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Back in 1994 I had my little project with Chimpanzee that made me go to Rubondo Island on Lake Victoria. I stayed on the Island for 3 months researching a Chimpanzee population on the Island.
As we had some issues with the authorities I was flown to the island on a small airplane. The pilot dropped me there and said "see you again same place same time in 4 months!" - there I was all by myself at the beginning of an incredible time I will never want to miss.
At that time, the island and National Park, approx. 240sqkm was not inhabited by humans except of some park rangers living in three stations not far from "my camp".
When I scanned my old slides last week, I stumbled across some pictures telling a story I actually never forgot and that I would like to share with you. I will do so in a series of pictures, I hope you find your time to read through the descriptions.
You will certainly realize this is not about "nice pictures" or collecting faves, this is all about real life in one of the poorest areas in the world, it is about contrast, about conflicting priorities and about difficulties to understand foreign cultures (at least I hope it will be all that ... I have not started writing about it).
In order to preserve this touch of reality, I on purpose did not optimize pictures, i.e. cropping, changing tones or contrasts. Hence, forgive the rather dark nature of these scans.
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Supporters wave flags when Ma is giving speech.
Taiwan's opposition KMT (a.k.a. Nationalist Party) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou and his running mate Vincent Siew cheer with supporters after winning Taiwan's presidential election in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, March 22, 2008.
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改革、希望，向前行...馬英九與蕭萬長在2008/3/22贏得正副總統後, 立即在台北競選總部前, 接受群眾歡呼並發表當選演說...
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... The two poachers (and a couple more caught by another team of rangers) were brought to the island. Similar to hunt-down prey, the men were laid on the shoreline ... still passively expecting their punishment. This atmosphere was so typical for many situation I experienced when traveling in Africa, but also when reading books about Africa: an endless endurance, despondence or indifference (still searching for the right word in English) reflecting the hopelessness and despair ... as if they were exhausted from daily fighting and tiredly accepting their fate.
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
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... not only did the treatment the rangers did to the poachers intrigue me, not only was I surprised to see the total lack of reaction amongst the prisoners: what perhaps intrigued me most was how "normal" the situation seemed to be for everyone. The rangers' wifes didn't bother what was going on but continued with their routine of washing dishes and fish in the lake. Imagine the same scenario in a western country: policemen are arresting to criminals, lay them down on your doorstep and you continue doing your garden work as if nothing had happened ... isn't that bizarre?
And one more thing: In my opinion, this picture in combination with the previous one is a fabulous example for discussing manipulation of pictures in photoshop. None of the pictures is manipulated and still despite being taken from the same standpoint at the same time, they tell a different story. In analogue photography as well, all picture taking is subject to the photographers standpoint and his intention. Framing the picture differently does tell another story about a situation. Here, the two prisoners were not no longer kept in isolation, it is no longer them who are in the middle of attention. The situation no longer is extraordinary. They have become part of daily life. They belong.
No photoshop is needed, changing the frame alone is as much an manipulation of reality. There is not such thing as reality - certainly not in photography. Independent of photoshop and digital photography. Photoshop only makes it easier.
to be continued - stay tuned
(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
::: Mark Rothko
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Well, you might wonder, what happened to the confiscated load of poached fish? The rules were very strict and as far as I could observe they were quite well followed in this park: the fish was smoked on fire for a couple of hours. The rangers were allowed to keep very little or none of the fish for their own use. I was told that this was to ensure that the rangers themselves did not start poaching or start to sell the prey for their own purpose whilst declaring it was confiscated fish.
The majority of the smoked catch however was brought to the mainland as evidence in the trial. I was given some fish to taste ... which I had to accept despite the tragic story attached to this meal.
Btw, similar were the rules in another case. I once observed a fight between an elephant and a hippo. It was a very short fight with the elephant being the winner in the first round leaving the hippo dead! Again, in this very case, the rangers were not allowed to smoke/conserve the meat (which apparently is very good) but had to burn the entire animal. Again, this was to ensure that the rangers did not start killing the animals themselves and declaring that the animal died in a fight.
to be continued - stay tuned
(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
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I can't always reach the image in my mind.. almost never, in fact.. so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
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... continued from previous slide: One morning, I guess it was in my 2nd month on the Island, I was invited to join the rangers on what the said to be a "special tour". My Swahili was more or less non-existent and their English wasn't better either. Hence, communicating was difficult. Hence, I did not really know what we were going to do.
But I certainly realized, it must be important as they usually had not fuel available for the boats (which was one of the reasons, why I could not go to the mainland to stock up food but lost some 15kg of body weight during my time on the island - but this is another story).
I was told that fishing in a certain zone around the Island was prohibited and considered "poaching" (as well as hunting on the island of course). None the less, with Lake Victoria suffering from a rapidly declining fish population (also as a result of introducing the Nile Perch which destabilized the existing fish population, read more here ) and hence, fishermen of the surrounding villages not having enough food, poaching around the Island was observed very frequently.
Often, local fishermen sailed to the island for fishing and in order to avoid discovery hided their boat and themselves in the forest on shore of the island.
A couple of days before we set of four our trip, the rangers discovered one such boat, seized it and expected the poachers to escape on a raft. This was, how I ended up on this boat.
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
The thought of following your heart is such a romantic vision.
Have you ever paused to reflect on the whispers deep in yours?
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Don't play the game, move forward
'... Microsoft is shooting at you, and it's just cover fire so that they can move forward and you can't, because this is how the game is played ...' [0]
Why are readers worried about articles like this? More to the point why are you reading them at all? They lack irony, humour and certainly lack a coherent message. Here's mine. You don't read this site & pg's articles just to get funded do you? If you do your missing the point. You are going for the egg instead of the goose. [1] [2]
Don't play the game, move forward.
Reference
[0] Joel On Software, 'Fire And Motion'
www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
[1] Khosla, Vinod, '... Khosla met staffer Andreas Bechtolsheim, a workstation designer and research scientist at the Stanford University network. Bechtolsheim had built a computer workstation and had begun licensing his creation to companies for $10,000. Khosla talked his new colleague into ceasing the licensing game in favor of manufacturing the workstations themselves. "I want the goose that laid the golden egg, and I don't want the golden egg," ...'
[2] If you still don't get it, "It's the information", not the lottery of yc. Reading through pg's articles a clearer path is created in which you can avoid the ugly trolls and other unexpected obstacles, in the maze of twisty little passages creating startups.
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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
::: William Dobel
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... I of course was wrong to believe that the "Xylophone" was all for that day. Having a half dozen strong men available seemed rather handy for the park rangers as there was always lots of things to do on the island. Such as shoveling sand (and please, don't ask me what the sand was used for as normally there was very limited fuel available to drive the tractor to another place).
And, needless to say as well that this was not the only kind of corvee: the men stayed for half a week on the island working for the park authority before being brought to court in Geita.
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
::: Ernst Ludwig Kirchne
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So what have we read so far?
- it's about being hungry
- it's about being desperate
- it's about people poaching fish
- it's about ethics difficult to understand from a western standpoint
- it's about punishing people
- it's about the inability to communicate
- but it is also about contrast in daily life
And I will add another dimension now: it is also about the divide between the very rich and the very poor! A couple of days later to my very surprise three South Africans arrived on the island (the picture is of their departure though). It was the first time for weeks that I met "strangers" and that I also saw the use of the park authorities' boats other than for observation patrols [on the other hand, I wasn't able to stock up on food for weeks now due to fuel shortage, but this is another story].
Guess what these visitors have come to the island for? for fly-fishing!!!
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
PS: one thing I need to add from previous slides: what happened to the prisoners. I was told the rangers "deliver" them to the district court on the mainland where - after a couple of weeks in prisons and if they are surviving prisons - are put to trial. Then, usually, the get sentenced for a couple of months prisons, which again they are not necessary going to survive, so the rangers told. Or more precisely: "hopefully they do not all survive prisons as they sooner or later again show up poaching and we catch them again .... " - I have nothing to add.
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#223 Sometimes it is not so easy but I am always happy if I move forward in my project;)
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People from your past can't pollute your future unless you invite them in by thinking about them NOW. Let it go. - Gordana Biernat
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Taiwan's opposition KMT (a.k.a. Nationalist Party) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou and his running mate Vincent Siew cheer with supporters after winning Taiwan's presidential election in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, March 22, 2008.
馬英九與蕭萬長在2008/3/22贏得正副總統後, 立即在台北競選總部前, 接受群眾歡呼並發表當選演說...
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