Giles Duley: When a reporter becomes the story
Giles Duley began his career as a fashion photographer. When it was time for a change he found himself on a journey of war and hardship. Full bio
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a little bit more about,
was a speaker in the States
until she came onstage,
yolunda gidiyormuş,
"That's the last thing I need."
diye düşündüm.
a photographer to open a speaking event.
hiding behind a camera
to talk about are stories
of stories to everybody.
a lot of stories
people's stories,
about the world, about other people
that I've done as a photographer,
a part of the stories
something more with my work.
something I wanted to do.
to travel the world,
other people in their situations
to bring them back,
and a fashion photographer,
that there was something missing,
using my skills productively.
very obvious, the link, now,
I couldn't really work out
to do something useful.
and decided to do care work.
after a young guy called Nick.
we became very close friends.
from swimming, going for walks ...
as I got to know him better,
wasn't being told.
quite a lot in the face.
as living downstairs at a party.
the party in the kitchen,
trapped in the basement,
but not able to walk upstairs.
yürüyememek gibi.
of doing anything with the pictures,
that I could tell somebody's story
of closer friendship,
to actually see him doing this
particularly good at helping Nick,
self-harming as bad as we said.
of when he'd really been self-harming.
incredibly different,
eight years later,
that he was feeling a lot better,
the self-harming anymore.
I hope that the photographs
me to go out with my camera
was in Kutupalong,
have been left,
the official UN camp.
runs through the camp.
and document their stories.
of all these people
I turned up in the morning,
and I started to photograph these people.
got a bit out of control,
little compound we had made
turning up with ailments and diseases
what their situation is -- helpless.
who was slowly suffocating.
coming up to me, desperate,
to the village elder
and I couldn't help these people.
turned to me and he said,
these people know you're not a doctor,
is now telling their story,
what is happening to them."
that maybe it was worthwhile
was in Odessa, in Ukraine.
with them in a squat,
olduğunu söyleyebilirim.
like that when I think,
they took me down to the sea
and the most violent --
for stabbing somebody --
and says, "We go swimming."
a "Lonely Planet" guide to Ukraine
"Do not talk to the street kids,
if this is a good idea."
dedim, ben de.
all my equipment, to these street kids.
if you look in the background,
who didn't get in the water go,
how I was going to get him a camera
to teach him photography.
evening I was there.
I left to go and collect my things.
in the morning, he was dead.
and a lot of vodka.
and didn’t recover.
these people's stories:
for me to document them.
de önemli yapıyor.
when I was on patrol in Afghanistan,
by what had happened, obviously.
didn't make sense to me.
I never set out to Congo,
to make some kind of change,
that my body was, in many ways,
of what war does to somebody.
my own experience, my own body,
at the other people I've documented.
of his resilience.
and the fact that they have no hope.
that I've documented
through the last year,
and tell their stories,
what a bomb does to somebody,
doesn't end your life;
what people say is disability,
at where I was a year ago,
a lot of things I didn't have then.
if this hadn't happened.
to show you those photographs
when I sat down and I tried to work out
a difference in this world.
was a tool and a way to do it.
be part of that wheel.
to use something
about it," and forget about it.
all do something.
on a soapbox and talking.
somebody's story
anlatmak da
an there is nothing to stop us.
that we can use as well.
to talk about today.
goes on all around the world.
through our own terrible experience.
and we talk about stories,
have gotten me to this point.
the stories I've been able to tell you
your experiences to help others.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Giles Duley - PhotojournalistGiles Duley began his career as a fashion photographer. When it was time for a change he found himself on a journey of war and hardship.
Why you should listen
Giles was a photographer who, some years ago, tired of celebrity photoshoots and the attendant egos and tantrums that often accompanied them. He flung his camera on the photoshoot bed and it bounced out the window into the streets of SoHo, London. At that point he decided to change course and dedicated himself to using his camera to "tell unheard stories of those caught in conflict and economic hardship around the world." His work took him to Sudan, Angola, Ukraine and Bangladesh, among other places. Early in 2011, on assignment in Afghanistan, Duley stepped on a landmine. Despite the fact that the horrific accident left Duley a triple amputee, he continues to dedicate his life to telling stories through photography.
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