Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery - Softcover

Bales, Kevin B.; Sealy, Mark

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9781853322648: Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery

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ISBN 10: 1853322644 ISBN 13: 9781853322648

Publisher: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2008

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Slavery may be illegal but it's by no means defunct (even if its guises have changed). More than 27 million people are still trapped in one of the world's oldest forms of oppression. Documenting Disposable People features newly commissioned photo essays by eight renowned Magnum photographers--Ian Berry, Stuart Franklin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Chris Steele-Perkins and Alex Webb--on diverse instances of contemporary global slavery. With texts on each of these projects and an essay by expert and author Kevin Bales, this compendium explores a range of examples, including child labor in Bangladesh, sex slavery from Ukraine to Western Europe and the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japanese troops during the Second World War. Documenting Disposable People shows how the unfortunate emergence of a new kind of slavery is inextricably linked to the "ascent" of a global economy.

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Kevin Bales is the world's leading analyst of modern day slavery and consultant to the UN Global Programme on Trafficking in People. He is President of the US organisation, Free the Slaves, and author of the award-winning book Disposable People: New Slavery in Global Economy (University of California Press, 1999).Roger Malbert is Senior Curator, Hayward Touring Exhibitions.Mark Sealy is the Director of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers, an international photographic arts agency that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights.Magnum, the most famous and internationally renowned photo-agency founded in 1947 by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, remains the touchstone of quality and seriousness in documentary photography.

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