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November 2010

Monks with Doves 2

Monks released doves during a Burmese protest in Manhattan, NY.

Canon 5D Mark ll, 50mm lens shot at f1.6

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York, USA

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Annie Kohl

I spent 3 years traveling abroad before I accidently wondered into the Tibetan Movement in Dharamsala, India. It was 2008, days before the 49th anniversary of the People�s Uprising inside Tibet and one of the Not-for-Profit organizers offered me a contract position photographing local protest and the March to Tibet. On March 14th, everyone from the march was arrested. Acting as a bystander to the arrest (my role was not to get involved or to take sides, just to witness and record) gave me an unavoidable shot of empathy straight to the heart. It was something similar to when you see doctors inject a cardiac arrest patient with a needle full of adrenaline. To see people so passionate for their culture, their land, and their community literally shocked me. I can pinpoint that exact morning as when I began to fully grasp the meaning of human rights and how much I had taken it for granted. It�s been nearly 3 years and I now live in New York but I stay involved with the Tibetan Not-for-Profit that I first worked with and with the Tibetan community here. I�ve also been learning about the Burmese Movement and I am fascinated by the role modern technology plays in the communications infrastructure of the Burmese campaign. I recently met a monk who doesn�t speak English but he can type it and he spends most of his days chatting with Burmese supporters on Facebook� My goal is to stay involved and (I�ll say this with the twinkle of youth and maybe ignorance in my eyes) to try and make the world a better place. Photography is my skill and my trade so I�ll use it as best I can to document and to educate about social justice and human rights causes.
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David Lazar
Fantastic image, Annie!
on 2010-11-20, at 06:51:06

Dieter
A very powerful image!
on 2010-11-20, at 07:33:40

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