Photo exhibition:Challenges of medical technology in the global South
Event details
| Date | 08.04.2015 › 08.05.2015 |
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| Category | Exhibitions |
This photographic exhibition reveals in images the problems related to medical technology in hospitals in Cameroon.
The inadequacy of these technologies to the conditions of use, the lack of resources and trained staff, and the problems related to water and electricity networks are representative of the settings encountered in most developing countries.
Symptomatic of this situation, radiology remains inaccessible to two-thirds of the world population according to WHO, although this basic technology is essential to modern medicine.
About the Photographer
Sylvain Liechti was born in Switzerland. He grew up in Burundi, and then studied photography in Europe and Australia before working as a freelance photojournalist for several Swiss newspapers, including 24Heures and La Région. Inspired by the work of Sebastiao Salgado, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, Sylvain Liechti became a war zone and post-conflict photographer. Official photographer of the United Nations in Burundi, he covered the demobilisation process in 2009 and the 2010 elections.
Since 2011 he is the photographer for MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He covers the conflict in the Kivus and Ituri and follows the peacekeepers in their various operations and daily life. His work has been widely published by the United Nations, as well as in various media throughout the world.
The inadequacy of these technologies to the conditions of use, the lack of resources and trained staff, and the problems related to water and electricity networks are representative of the settings encountered in most developing countries.
Symptomatic of this situation, radiology remains inaccessible to two-thirds of the world population according to WHO, although this basic technology is essential to modern medicine.
About the Photographer
Sylvain Liechti was born in Switzerland. He grew up in Burundi, and then studied photography in Europe and Australia before working as a freelance photojournalist for several Swiss newspapers, including 24Heures and La Région. Inspired by the work of Sebastiao Salgado, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, Sylvain Liechti became a war zone and post-conflict photographer. Official photographer of the United Nations in Burundi, he covered the demobilisation process in 2009 and the 2010 elections.
Since 2011 he is the photographer for MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He covers the conflict in the Kivus and Ituri and follows the peacekeepers in their various operations and daily life. His work has been widely published by the United Nations, as well as in various media throughout the world.
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