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'The Fall out' runs at World Trade Centre
This project was born out of the photographer's desire to witness the effects of the war on those parts of Sri Lanka where it was fought. To this end he travelled to Jaffna at the end of September last year, where he spent three days talking to a variety of NGOs in an attempt to begin to understand the situation in the North and East. The humanitarian mine-clearance campaigns already underway in those areas struck him as the most visible examples of post-ceasefire projects that spoke of a new and peaceful future, and he decided (access permitting) to spend a few days photographing them with a view to producing a feature for the UK or Australian newspaper markets. In October he entered the Vanni and using information obtained from UNDP in Jaffna he sought out the Humanitarian Demining Unit. He was invited to stay for a week with Norwegian People's Aid, the NGO that has been training equipping and financing HDU since shortly after the ceasefire. A second visit was planned, at the end of which Luke Atkinson of NPA conceptualised an exhibition on mine action in Colombo as a means of alerting the southern public (that had largely been denied any real reporting of the war) to the consequences of the conflict. The photographer took the idea to various sponsors, extended his stay in the country and broadened the scope of the work beyond the boundaries of the traditional news story. The result is 'The Fall-Out'. Tim Dickinson is an English documentary and hard-news photographer who temporarily strayed into interiors and architectural work after relocating from London to Melbourne at the end of 2000. 'The Fall-Out' represents a return to the kind of reportage and features work that he was engaged in throughout the '90s while based in London as a free-lancer. His work appeared initially in i-D magazine in late 1992, and included the very first portraits by an English photographer of film director Quentin Tarantino. After this debut, he opted for press work rather than the fashion route so often preferred by those who got their first break at the seminal i-D. Within a year he was doing regular shifts for 'The Express' and 'The Sunday Times' as well as agencies 'Sygma' (now Corbis) and 'The Press Association.' His news work covered the whole range from riots to royalty, while features and portraits appeared in titles as diverse as Paris Match, Time Out and Loaded. His first visit to Sri Lanka in September last year was planned as a holiday but instead he found an ideal opportunity to document a historic moment in Sri Lanka's history. |
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