Bulan Fotografi 2011

Pameran Fotografi
« COMFORT WOMEN »
(Jugun Ianfu)

Hilde Janssen (wartawati – antropolog) & Jan Banning (fotografer)

17 November – 2 Desember 2011
Galeri CCCL, Jl. Darmokali 10 Surabaya

Pembukaan : Kamis, 17 November, Pk. 18.30



CCCL Surabaya setiap tahunnya menyelenggarakan tradisi ”Bulan Fotografi”, yang diadaptasi dari acara ’Mois de la Photo’ (Bulan Foto) di Eropa yang berawal dari kota Paris, yang diadakan 2 tahun sekali. Tahun 2011, kami mengadakan 2 pameran foto istimewa dan sebuah pameran & lomba desain/foto T-Shirt.

“Bulan Fotografi” akan dimulai dengan pameran karya Hilde Janssen (wartawati, antropolog, peneliti) yang menggagas project mengenai Comfort Women/Jugun Ianfu bersama Jan Banning (fotografer). Keduanya berasal dari Belanda. Pameran  fotografi berjudul “Comfort Women” dilengkapi buku dan tahun lalu pameran ini ditampilkan oleh Erasmus Huis di Jakarta pada  bulan Agustus 2010. Pameran Foto ”Comfort Women” digelar di galeri CCCL mulai 17 November hingga 2 Desember, dan akan dibuka pada Kamis, 17 November pk. 18.30.

Pameran & Lomba Desain/Foto T-Shirt. Pada periode yang sama, tanggal 17 November – 2 Desember, kami menggelar acara berkaitan dengan T-Shirt. Kami akan memajang pameran T-Shirt tentang Prancis, koleksi dari Alliance Français kota Bari, Italia di koridor CCCL. Untuk memeriahkan acara, kami mengadakan acara yang terinspirasi dari karya Alliance Français Bari tersebut, lomba desain/foto untuk T-Shirt bertema Prancis kontemporer. Pemenang lomba akan diumumkan pada Kamis, 8 Desember sore di CCCL.

Acara terakhir untuk menutup ’Bulan Fotografi’ 2011, kami mempersembahkan pameran  fotografi ” Surabaya Tanpa Batas”, karya komunitas pecinta fotografi Matanesia, dengan partisipasi Marie-Jo Aiassa (fotografer Prancis) dan Agus Suparta (fotografer freelance). Pameran akan dimeriahkan dengan workshop dan diskusi. (Press relase pameran ”Surabaya Tanpa Batas” dikirim menyusul).

------------


Hilde Janssen & project Comfort Women
http://www.hildejanssen.nl/troostmeisjes/comfort_women.html

Hilde Janssen (1959) is a journalist & anthropologist. For the last twenty years she has been living in Asia, working as a correspondent for several Dutch media. She is also been active as a researcher and consultant in the development sector and in journalism. While based in Jakarta, she initiated a research project on comfort women in 2007 that resulted in two books, a photo exhibition and a documentary film in 2010. At present she is living in The Netherlands, working as a freelance journalist, researcher and consultant.

Hilde trained as a child and youth care worker, after which she took an MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Nijmegen (1988), including field research in a fishing village in northern Spain. Having completed a number of research assignments on work in the informal sector in the Netherlands, she moved to Indonesia in 1991 where she worked as a freelance researcher and consultant with a focus on gender & development.

In 1993, Hilde moved to India and gradually shifted her professional activities to journalism. In India, she started her career in journalism as a correspondent for several Dutch media, including research and production work for the Dutch and Belgian producers of the television programme Traceless. In 2000, Hilde returned to Indonesia where she continued to reside and work till early 2011. In Indonesia, she was the foreign correspondent for the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad and several magazines, but she was -and still is- also active as a researcher and writer, occasional taking up research and advisory assignments as a consultant in the development sector.

In 2007 she initiated the Comfort Women project in collaboration with the Dutch photographer Jan Banning, for whom she already conducted research in Indonesia for his project Traces of War. Both projects focus on the suppressed past of victims the Japanese occupation. While Traces of War looks at the male forced labour, the comfort women project highlights the hidden history of forced prostitution. During two years Hilde travelled the archipelago in search for former comfort women, willing to share their story and be photographed by Jan Banning, who accompanied her later on during several visits. Hilde’s book ‘Schaamte en Onschuld. Het verdrongen Oorlogsverleden van troostmeisjes in Indonesië’ has been published by Nieuw Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She also contributed the introduction and interview fragments to Jan Banning’s photobook ‘Comfortwomen/Troostmeisjes’, as well as the text of the photo-exhibition. The exhibition is now traveling simultaneously in the Netherlands and Indonesia, for which Hilde is regularly invited as a speaker and lecturer.


Acara ini didukung oleh Erasmus Huis Jakarta