UNSEENWORLD is modeled on UNSEENAMERICA a program started by Esther Cohen, Executive Director of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project, 1199SEIU. All the local outreach was done by our friends at Burma Issues. Karen Education Workers Union (KEWU) offered us classroom space and a great deal of guidance. Olympus gave us cameras. The photographers were young leaders from various organizations including: Karen Youth Organization (KYO), Karen River Watch (KRW), Karen Student Network Group (KSNG), Burma Issues, KEWU and others. The project was funded by small donations from friends and family.
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UNSEEN MAE LA
An innovative arts project for Karen refugees from Burma to describe their lives through photography.
Photos of Refugee Life Taken by Karen Refugees
UNSEEN MAE LA
An innovative arts project for Karen refugees from Burma to describe their lives through photography.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
TEACHERS
Mae La Refugee Camp
Mae La Refugee Camp is home to over 45,000 refugees from Burma. Ethnic Karen make up 97% of the people living in Mae La. The camp is located 6 miles from the Thailand-Burma border and is the largest of 13 similar refugee camps. Mae La established in 1984 is home to an entire generation of people in their 20s who have lived their whole lives in refugee camps. There are 26 schools, 5 community libraries, 24 churches, 5 mosques and 4 Buddhist monasteries inside the camp. Most of Mae La is surrounded by barbed wire and residents have restricted movement outside the camp.
unseenworld
UNSEENWORLD is an innovative international arts project for workers and refugees to describe their lives through photography.
The core of the program is a series of free photography workshops. Workers and refugees receive cameras and photography instruction while engaging in discussions about self-representation.
UNSEENWORLD is an expansion of unseenamerica, a project created in order to add the vision of workers to the vision of society. unseenamerica was conceived 7 years ago by Esther Cohen the Executive Director of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, a 30-year old non-profit.
For more information email: Zoeann.Murphy[at]gmail.com
The core of the program is a series of free photography workshops. Workers and refugees receive cameras and photography instruction while engaging in discussions about self-representation.
UNSEENWORLD is an expansion of unseenamerica, a project created in order to add the vision of workers to the vision of society. unseenamerica was conceived 7 years ago by Esther Cohen the Executive Director of the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, a 30-year old non-profit.
For more information email: Zoeann.Murphy[at]gmail.com