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| Displaced in Denan, by Jarrett Schecter |
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Displaced in Denan is the account of New York photographer Jarrett Shecter's visit to southeastern Ethiopia as part of the Denan Project, a small medical relief mission founded by the photographer, documentarian Dick Young, and others. Denan, located in the Ogaden Desert in the Somali region, is an Internationally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp—in other words a camp for refugees who, by remaining within their national borders, do not achieve UN refugee status (and therefore, don't receive aid).
A vivid window into a little-known piece of the world, Displaced in Denan, documents what the mission has confronted—in a desert climate that daily reaches up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, where no medical assistance and little food relief had previously been provided for the nearly 10,000 IDPs who live there. Part of Schecter's stated mission to, through photography, “bring awareness to social injustices that the world faces today,” the book also captures living reality of the Somali desert, its conditions and the faces to the numbers. (And also, at publication, a testament to the Denan Project, which today has established a free hospital as well as a food aid program.)
(Displaced in Denan, Jarret Schecter, Trolley Publishing, $40)
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