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
كان عن مُتحدثة في الولايات المتحدة
until she came onstage,
جيد إلى أن صعدت للمسرح،
"That's the last thing I need."
مصورًا لافتتاح حدث خطابي.
a photographer to open a speaking event.
hiding behind a camera
to talk about are stories
الحديث عنه هو القصص
of stories to everybody.
a lot of stories
people's stories,
عن العالم وعن الأشخاص الآخرين
about the world, about other people
that I've done as a photographer,
قصص وثقتها كمصور،
a part of the stories
something more with my work.
بفعل شيء أفضل بعملي.
something I wanted to do.
أمر أود فعله.
to travel the world,
أن أسافر حول العالم،
other people in their situations
to bring them back,
and a fashion photographer,
that there was something missing,
المزعج بأن هناك شيء ناقص،
using my skills productively.
very obvious, the link, now,
I couldn't really work out
to do something useful.
تصويري لفعل شيء مفيد.
and decided to do care work.
أن أقوم بأعمال الرعاية.
after a young guy called Nick.
بدأت برعاية شاب يدعى نيك.
we became very close friends.
أصبحنا أصدقاء مقربين.
from swimming, going for walks ...
من السباحة، المشي ...
as I got to know him better,
wasn't being told.
quite a lot in the face.
يلكم نفسه كثيرًا في الوجه.
as living downstairs at a party.
يعيش وفوقه حفلة.
the party in the kitchen,
trapped in the basement,
but not able to walk upstairs.
غير قادر على الصعود للطابق العلوي.
of doing anything with the pictures,
that I could tell somebody's story
أستطيع نقل قصص الناس
of closer friendship,
to actually see him doing this
particularly good at helping Nick,
تساعد نيك بشكل جيد،
self-harming as bad as we said.
نفسه للدرجة التي أبلغناهم بها.
of when he'd really been self-harming.
له وهو يقوم بإيذاء نفسه.
incredibly different,
eight years later,
that he was feeling a lot better,
the self-harming anymore.
I hope that the photographs
ولو بشكل بسيط،
me to go out with my camera
للخروج ومعي كاميرتي
was in Kutupalong,
have been left,
the official UN camp.
مخيم الأمم المتحدة الرسمي.
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
المصابين بالأمراض والأسقام
ميؤوسًا منه.
what their situation is -- helpless.
فهم مغلوبون على أمرهم.
who was slowly suffocating.
أحد، فكان يختنق ببطء.
coming up to me, desperate,
وهم يائسون
to the village elder
and I couldn't help these people.
أستطيع مساعدة هؤلاء الأشخاص.
turned to me and he said,
these people know you're not a doctor,
الأشخاص يعلمون أنك لست طبيبًا،
is now telling their story,
ما يقوم بنقل قصتهم
what is happening to them."
that maybe it was worthwhile
الخروج وفعل هذه الأمور
was in Odessa, in Ukraine.
في أوديسا بأوكرانيا.
with them in a squat,
المشاكل بسبب كثرة شرب الفودكا
" متى كانت هذه فكرة جيدة؟"
like that when I think,
مثل هذه أفكر
they took me down to the sea
and the most violent --
for stabbing somebody --
and says, "We go swimming."
حولي ويقول: " لنذهب للسباحة."
a "Lonely Planet" guide to Ukraine
دليل "الكوكب الوحيد" لأوكرانيا
"Do not talk to the street kids,
كانت "لا تتحدث مع أطفال الشوارع،
if this is a good idea."
إن كانت هذه فكرة جيدة."
all my equipment, to these street kids.
ومعداتي، لأطفال الشوارع هؤلاء.
if you look in the background,
آخرين لم ينزلوا في الماء،
who didn't get in the water go,
تنزل في هذه المياه؟"
how I was going to get him a camera
to teach him photography.
evening I was there.
آخر ليلة أمضيتها هناك.
I left to go and collect my things.
تلك الليلة، غادرت لأجمع أغراضي.
in the morning, he was dead.
and a lot of vodka.
and didn’t recover.
these people's stories:
أسجل قصص هؤلاء الناس
for me to document them.
when I was on patrol in Afghanistan,
كنت في جولة في أفغانستان
by what had happened, obviously.
ما حدث، وهذا واضح.
didn't make sense to me.
I never set out to Congo,
أذهب أبدًا إلى الكونغو
to make some kind of change,
إحداث نوع من التغير،
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.
للأشخاص الذين قمت بتوثيقهم.
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,
ما تفعله القنبلة بالإنسان،
doesn't end your life;
لا ينهي حياتك.
what people say is disability,
ما يسميه الناس إعاقة،
at where I was a year ago,
a lot of things I didn't have then.
لم تكن لدي من قبل.
if this hadn't happened.
to show you those photographs
when I sat down and I tried to work out
حين توقفت وحاولت معرفة
a difference in this world.
was a tool and a way to do it.
be part of that wheel.
نكون جزء من هذه العجلة.
to use something
أمام التلفاز ونقول:
about it," and forget about it.
all do something.
on a soapbox and talking.
somebody's story
an there is nothing to stop us.
وليس هناك ما يمنعه.
that we can use as well.
التي نستطيع استخدامها أيضًا.
to talk about today.
goes on all around the world.
تستمر في أنحاء العالم.
through our own terrible experience.
and we talk about stories,
have gotten me to this point.
هم من أوصلوني لهذه النقطة.
the stories I've been able to tell you
هذه القصص التي أخبرتكم بها
your experiences to help others.
باستخدام تجاربكم لمساعدة الآخرين.
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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