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Sudan: The Land And The People :: Main Page - Sudan: The Land and The People :: Main Page Sudan: The Land and The People Sudan: The Land and the People will be available to Museums, Community Centers and Art Galleries for two and a half years. The 2006 schedule is almost completely booked. Click here for more information. January 9, 2006 Michael Freeman and Ambassador Timothy Carney will discuss the making of Sudan: the Land and the People as well as the political prospects for Sudan on the anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and the south. A beautiful illustrated lecture. More info... January 17, 2006 Ambassador Timothy Carney will be part of a panel discussion on political developments in Sudan and US Policy towards Sudan. More info... For Exhibitions, contact: Dr. Curtis Sandberg Thames and Hudson "The Sudan for most people is just a name in the news. This magnificent book corrects that; its wise and well-informed text, and lavish pictures, give the country a face – irresistible, photogenic, bewitching and profoundly human, in all its fabulous variety." "This superb story of the Sudan does everything. Michael Freeman’s photographs portray both the glory and the grimness of this huge and tantalizing country. The text by Tim Carney and Victoria Butler is beautifully written, erudite and illuminating. Altogether Sudan provides a marvelous, unique journey through this historic and strategically vital country." "This is a stunning achievement. Very few people have managed to visit, and none until Michael Freeman to photograph, the whole of Africa’s biggest and perhaps most fascinating country. The Sudan of war and famine that we in the west have come to know is here, but so are the many other Sudans – Arabe, African, desert, swamp, antique and modern – that those who love the country so often find missing. In one arresting photograph after another, the Sudan holds us in its famous thrall. Meanwhile, Timothy Carney and Victoria Butler’s text provides and engaging and thoughtful introduction to a fragmented country just beginning to knit itself back together after decades of civil war." Sudan: The Land and The People Essays by Timothy Carney and Victoria Butler Armed internal conflict, drought, and famine have plagued Sudan – Africa’s largest and most culturally complex country – Sudanese can live and prosper together. Sudan: the Land and the country. In text and images, this volume not only illuminates the difficulties confronting Sudanese but also highlights the enormous and often overlooked economic and human potential of the country. Carney and Victoria Butler focus on Sudan’s history, land and sapiens lived in Sudan’s Nile River Valley, and five thousand years ago landscape draws attention to the dominant influence of the Nile River on Sudanese peoples, culture, and economy. A final essay explores the rich blend of African and Arab peoples and cultures that give acclaimed photographer Michael Freeman, who traveled the length and unforgettable photographs illustrate a grand, vast geography from savannahs and swamps to rocky hills and desert. He visited all the major towns in every region and some villages that no Westerner had seen in decades. Nomads, herders, and farmers, teacher and students, lawyers and doctors, industrialists and laborers – all getting married, having children, and growing old. They capture Muslims, Christians, and followers of traditional religions. October 12, 2005 -- The Jean Paul Gaultier boutique held a book launching for "Sudan: The Land and the People" with a champagne reception with the photographer and the authors. The boutique is located in South Kensington at 171-175 Draycott Avenue, London SW3-3AJ. Profile: "Sudan: The Land and the People" MADELEINE BRAND, host: This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Madeleine Brand. Coming up, ideas for how to find new music while traveling. But first, the US ambassador to the United Nations says stronger sanctions may be needed against Sudan, where government-sponsored militias have been committing widespread atrocities against villagers in the Darfur region. We often think of Sudan as a place of conflict and famine, but it's also rich in resources and culture. And one former US ambassador, Timothy Carney, is trying to give Americans a broader view. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. MICHELE KELEMEN reporting: This has been a busy retirement for Tim Carney, the last US ambassador to serve in Khartoum before the US downgraded relations in 1997. Though retired, he's been hired back by the State Department to serve in some hot spots, Iraq and now Haiti. And he's promoting his new book. It's not the usual policy analysis, but rather a coffee table photography book called "Sudan: The Land and the People." Former Ambassador TIM CARNEY (Former US Ambassador to Sudan): You've got all the problems you can possibly imagine--ethnic, cultural, religious, problems of plurality and diversity and the failure to accept those realities--all of them coming together in Sudan today. And here on these walls I celebrated the diversity and the plurality of that country. KELEMEN: Seventy of the 300 photos are on display in a Washington mansion that houses a cultural exchange center. At the opening, British photographer, Michael Freeman, an old friend of Carney's, said he approached the project with some trepidation because he knew little about Sudan--only, as he put it, some vague memories of famine and war. He photographed places untouched by tourism, including a crumbling medieval fortress on a bend in the Nile. Mr. MICHAEL FREEMAN (Photographer): And what fascinates me about coming across this scene in the upper Nile was how little information we have since been able to glean about anything to do with that or the whole string of medieval forts along that part of the Nile. KELEMEN: Freeman says he found northern Sudan bleak, even as he got close to the border of Egypt. But he also saw Sudan's riches and photographed the glimmer of a huge oil tank and the orange hues of an open-pit gold mine that he likened to Dante's "Inferno." Mr. FREEMAN: For me, it reminds me of the heat and the dust and the sort of rather alien nature of the landscape. KELEMEN: Freeman says Ambassador Carney's connections in Khartoum gave him wide latitude to travel Sudan, though always with minders. Like most outsiders, he had a limited stay in Darfur, and his pictures there are of refugees. Elsewhere, he tried to capture the Sufi traditions predominant in parts of Sudan: a whirling dervish and a line of men jumping, seemingly floating off the carpeted floor. Mr. FREEMAN: What I was not concerned with was trying to capture the chanting and the movement because I realized that it would be much more interesting to make something that gives you a double take of them just standing there. But they're not. They're at the peak of the jump. KELEMEN: He also captured a moment when two boys perched on a rock were drinking lake water through special guinea worm filters, given by The Carter Center, one of the sponsors of the book. Jimmy Carter's foreword to the book says, `Freeman caught the essential humanity of Sudan,' adding that he hopes the book will broaden the understanding of Sudan not only outside the country but among Sudanese themselves. Victoria Butler, Ambassador Carney's wife and a free-lance reporter, says this was one of the main ideas behind the book. Ms. VICTORIA BUTLER (Free-lance Reporter): That you show people in pictures how big, how complicated and how much there is to learn about a place before you make a hard, fast opinion about a place. KELEMEN: Ambassador Carney sought out the similarities among Sudan's diverse people. He pointed to a common interest in education, even if the infrastructure is starkly different. Mr. CARNEY: And we saw many schools under mango trees in the South, as in the North we saw Islamic schools on the one and government schools where classes were crowded and where kids were neat as a pin and determined to learn. KELEMEN: The book tries to offer some sense of optimism for a country that's been ravaged by 50 years of civil conflict between the mainly Arab North and the Christian and animist South, and now a separate but also long-brewing conflict in Darfur. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington. BRAND: And there are some stunning photos from the Sudan; you can find them at our Web site, npr.org. More coming up on DAY TO DAY from NPR News. Profile: "Sudan: The Land and the People," November 4, 2005 from Day to Day Copyright ©1990-2005 National Public Radio®. All rights reserved. No quotes from the materials contained herein may be used in any media without attribution to National Public Radio. This transcript may not be reproduced in whole or in part without prior written permission. For further information, please contact NPR's Permissions Coordinator at (202) 513-2000. “Sudan: The Land and the People� Now on View at Meridian International Center through January 29 The 70 stunning, contemporary photographs now intalled in Meridan’s handsome gallery spaces were taken by the noted Smithsonian photographer Michael Freeman. They depict an astonishing country, one which in this age of the global village is both exotically unknown and far too familiar in its contemporary civil war and violence in Darfur. The images on display have been selected from over 300 of Freeman’s work that have been just published in a spectacularly printed oversize volume that serves to introduce a world audience to Africa’s largest and most ethnically, geographically, and culturally diverse country, as noted by former President Jimmy Carter in his preface to this unusually informative introductory style book of photographs. Following the concise essays on Sudan’s history, land and peoples by former US Ambassador to Sudan Timothy Carney and freelance writer Victoria Butler, Freeman’s photographs take the commanding stage – and they are terrific! Freeman masterfully captures the beauty and complexity of Sudan’s land and people. From the Arab and Berber north and northwest to the south of Sudan which lies on the northern borders of Uganda, Kenya and the Congo, he presents a range of photographs with extraordinary pictorial, narrative and documentary qualities. The examination of time is especially fascinating, beginning with ruins of the ancient Sudanese Kush Empire, through reminders of early Medieval periods when Arab caravans created great trading empires across northern Sudan, to the present day with its mix of modernity and indigenous simplicity – all sharing parts of a large land striving to be a unified and great nation. The largeness and sophistication of Freeman’s photographic work is wonderful expressed in a trio of images mounted side-by-side on a single interior wall. The first of these three depicts the results of open pit gold mining in a photograph of tailings stained green with copper precipitates – looking like a dead green sea in an image taken with a camera mounted on a space satellite. The second photograph is of a ruined and abandoned medieval fort on the west bank of the Nile between the temples of Soleb and Sesibe – an image both powerful and haunting. The third is the ingenious abstraction created by cropping both sides of a huge oil storage tank at Heglig, south of the Nuba Mountains with a lone individual halfway down a catwalk diagonally across the face of the tank. Freeman’s capturing of this image in the midst of a goldensunset and its reflected illusion of exquisite fabric panels is mesmerizing. It is in the exhibition’s photographic compositions of the peoples of Sudan, however, that Freeman achieves his most humanistic and profound photographic insights. The sensitivity with which he records Sudan’s many and diverse peoples – in all forms of condition and activities – carries the same hallmark of that of those taken more than 60 years ago by the great explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, who introduced Anglo-America to the beauty of Sudan, beginning with his experiences as a British civil servant in the mid 1930s. Freeman follows in the same tradition, depicting, for example, the power and amazing space, clarity and cleanness of the Sudanese desert, the colorful and jostling complexity of its rural villages and urban market places, and the astonishing vitality and physical beauty of the southern Sudanese. Especially striking was the visual similarity between a photograph of Sudanese students in the low-arched, Romanesque-styled covered walkway at Sudan’s Khartoum University, and a photograph taken 50 years ago by Thesiger of one of the Marsh Arabs’ prototypical tall, arched reed houses. Both structures arch beautifully in the same bowed fashion. Finally, Michael Freeman’s astonishing range and consistently high quality of photograph culminates in this exhibition with a portrait photograph of a man praying. The printed image is of breathtaking beauty. Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 2-5 pm (except federal holidays). For more information call 667-6800 or visit www.meridian.org . Meridian International Center is located at 1630 Cresent Place, NW, opposite Meridian Hill Park. By Anthony Harvey, The In-Towner, November 2005 How to Buy this Book From The University of Washington Press Toll Free ordering in the USA: 1-800-441-4115 Book Reviews About the Authors Book Description Upcoming Events Events February 16, 2006 The authors will attend the opening of the photographic exhibition. More info... February 26, 2006 The authors will be in Kenya to celebrate the Second Annual African Heritage Day in Nairobi. They will sign books at a reception held by Alan Donovan. More info... Tour Schedule October - January 2006 Meridian International Center, Washington D. C. More info... February 13 - April 3 Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ More info... April 10 - June 2, 2006 McKissik Museum, University of South Carolina More info... August 28 - October 27, 2006 Community Council for the Arts, Kinston, SC. More info... How to Organize a Book Event or Photo Exhibition For Book Events, contact: Victoria Butler Director of Exhibitions Meridian International Center More Details... Links Sudan Embassy Sudan at Meridian Book Review Quotes From Paul Theroux From William Shawcross From Deborah Scroggins Wednesday: July 6, 2005 July 6, 2005, 03:28PM (EDT) Photography by Michael Freeman since its independence in 1956. A comprehensive peace agreement signed in January 2005 ended Sudan’s bloody civil war, putting its people on a challenging journey to create a nation in which all People is the first illustrated book to depict the whole of the In a trio of thoughtful essays, authors Timothy people. More than a quarter million years ago, the first Homo Sudan gave Africa its first black kingdom. The authors clearly recount the country’s more recent past, putting Sudan’s modern conflicts in historical context. A chapter on the physical Sudanese society its great diversity as well as its turbulence. Bringing all of Sudan to vivid life are the stunning images of breadth of the country over a period of two years. His inhabit the pages of theis book. The pictures show Sudanese Freeman’s camera has caught, as former President Jimmy Carter notes in his foreword, “the essential humanity of Sudan.� Leave Comment | Trackbacks (1) | Permanent Link | Cosmos Thursday: December 29, 2005 Images from the Jean Paul Gaultier boutique book launch, London December 29, 2005, 11:23AM (EST) Leave Comment | Permanent Link | Cosmos Wednesday: December 28, 2005 December 28, 2005, 11:05AM (EST) Leave Comment | Permanent Link | Cosmos December 28, 2005, 10:58AM (EST)
 
 
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