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Informationen zum Autor Teun Voeten studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy in the Netherlands. An award winning photojournalist and author, he has worked covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza. His work has been published in Vanity Fair , Newsweek , The New Yorker , and National Geographic among others. Voeten is a contributing photographer for organizations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. He has published three books in the Netherlands: Tunnel People , an journalistic/anthropological account of 5 months living in an underground community of homeless in New York; A Ticket To , a collection of Voeten’s hard hitting war photography along with a much cited essay on war photography; and in 1998, Voeten went to Sierra Leone to work on a project on child soldiers. His first trip nearly ended in disaster when he was hunted down by rebels intent on killing him, but eventually resulted in the headline How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone , published by Meulenhoff, Amsterdam in 2000. The English translation was published by St. Martins Press, New York, in 2002. Klappentext Following the homeless Manhattanites who! in the mid-1990s! chose to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city! this record tells the stories of a variety of tunnel dwellers from the perspective of an award-winning! European photojournalist who lived and worked with them for 5 months. Photographs and personal accounts detail the struggles and pleasures--including the government's eviction of the tunnel people and Amtrak's offering them alternative housing--of Vietnam veterans! macrobiotic hippies! crack addicts! Cuban refugees! convicted killers! computer programmers! philosophical recluses! and criminal runaways. Humorous and compassionate! it also describes what has happened to these individuals 13 years since they've left. ...
