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Studio AlvenslebenDEChristian von AlvenslebenSTORIES: NATIVE AMERICANS 1977 From the Haudenosaunee Territory to the Hopi Prophecy Rock - A Journey through Indian Country in the USA1977 was an important year for the resistance of the indigenous peoples of both the Americas. The UN Special Committee on Decolonization in Geneva had scheduled a one-week conference for September on land theft, racism and genocide. The International Indian Treaty Council, an American Indian NGO headquartered in New York City, was tasked with forwarding the invitation to travel to Switzerland to all indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Andes. When Christian von Alvensleben and I started out… Studio AlvenslebenDEChristian von AlvenslebenSTORIES: THE LEOPARD'S TRAIL 1962/63 In the autumn of 1962, the 21 year old Christian von Alvensleben started out on his first great journey. With an image of Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa" in his mind's eye and a Leica in his luggage he set off for Mozambique.
Once he arrived in the Portuguese colony with its immense animal kingdom he was forced to realize that the paradise he was expecting no longer existed. Hunting parties from Europe and the USA were in the process of turning the landscape int… |
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