Jonathan Moller’s powerful prints document effects of genocide

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, Jan. 03, 2009 10:15 PM
Jonathan Moller’s powerful prints document effects of genocide
By NICK MALEWSKI
Special to The Star

More than three decades of fighting between the Guatemalan Army and a coalition of guerrillas saw the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

The military instituted a “scorched earth policy” and killed women, children and elderly people to prevent civilian support of the rebels. Making matters worse, some of the guerrillas killed people as a consequence for refusing them aid.

People tried hiding in the mountains. Those caught were killed, leaving the survivors to bury the dead in clandestine graves.

About nine years ago, in the Quiché province of Guatemala, artist Jonathan Moller worked on a forensic anthropology team as a photographer documenting the exhumation and reburial of those who died in the mountains.

More:
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/960071.html

http://las.uoregon.edu.nyud.net:8090/events/images/moller1.jpg

Google images has some of his prints to study:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-37,GGLD:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Jonathan+Moller&spell=1

[Judi Lynn]

1. Here is his website:

http://www.jonathanmoller.org.nyud.net:8090/images_2/jmhome2_12.jpg

http://www.jonathanmoller.org/

click on each of the thumbnail images, it will open a portfolio of other images.

[struggle4progress]

2. thanx JL

[Judi Lynn]

3. Thank you! n/t