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This website is just a little part of Sarah's portfolio. For more images, shots and photos taken by Sarah Van den Elsken I can recommend the regularly updated http://www.photoshelter.com/c/sarahvandenelsken/ where you will find a large selection of reportages, portraits, press, music pictures and some publications that are definitely worth a look. 
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Publication in Knack on 25th of November 2009 on AIDS Orphans in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.  In a tiny hut on a deserted hill near Manguzi, Busi (20) is waking up. Her parents and her sister passed away, she has been the head of the family for more than three years now. She was left behind with two younger siblings, the orphan child of her older sister and two children of yet another sister that has left for a better life in Mozambique. After years of extreme poverty, she now found a boyfriend who slips her some money now and then. Three nights of unprotected sex a week is what she is forced to give in return, knowing he sees other women as well. Since then her family can go to school. It’s a sacrifice she makes to give them a better chance in life.
Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.
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Noorderlicht Workshop 2009 Passing Through A four day workshop with Stuart Franklin
The aim of the workshop is to document movement in the city of Groningen. Participants will be asked to capture a sense of journeying and movement that echoes the city's past as a trading town and it's history as a university town and 'world cycling city'. A typical approach would be to explore the culture of cycling in the city - how people use bikes, where they go, etc. The aim will be to document the city in a fresh and interesting way. The concept 'passing through' should give enough scope to explore long and short journeys and understand some of the challenges that documentary photography presents. This is a reportage about the squatters of the Betonbos (Concrete Forest) in Groningen. They are passing through this place and have no idea how long they can stay. Some have been living there in their trailer in the forest for 5 years. Big thanks to Stuart, Irene K, Irene S, Titia, Wouter, Pieter and Mattieu...and our amazing group of photographers!
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I'm passing through...or in other words have been selected for a workshop with Stuart Franklin. Passing Through: A four day workshop with Stuart Franklin The aim of the workshop is to document movement in the city of Groningen. Participants will be asked to capture a sense of journeying and movement that echoes the city's past as a trading town and it's history as a university town and ‘world cycling city’. A typical approach would be to explore the culture of cycling in the city - how people use bikes, where they go, etc. The aim will be to document the city in a fresh and interesting way. The concept ‘passing through’ should give enough scope to explore long and short journeys and understand some of the challenges that documentary photography presents.
http://events.magnumphotos.com/workshop/passing-through-four-day-workshop-stuart-franklin http://www.noorderlicht.com/ned/fest09/workshop.html |
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