Peacemaker Interview
- What does visual peacemaking mean to you?
Taking a photograph is making a choice. Each time. Choosing how to render who and what you see behind your lens is up to you. I live in a poor country and I could show this poverty in my photographs. I think there is more to see than poverty. Visual peacemaking is a choice to see life with respect.
Visual peacemaking is the logical consequence of my formal training as a Humanitarian Law Specialist. - What motivates you to be a peacemaker?
I am a lawyer and a visual artist. I am a learner of life. I want to promote the beauty of the world.
- Have you ever felt stereotyped?
I am a lawyer by training and a photographer by choice. I am stereotyped very often because of my first profession. When I also announce that I am an artist, I feel I am then stereotyped as arrogant. Though I assume my choices as they make me and shape my vision of the world.
- How does your camera get you to reflect on your world and your life?
I am a shy person and my cameras help me to connect with the world. There is beauty everywhe and my goal is to see and show it through my photographic work. I also use different types of cameras and films and they offer me various visions of the world. Each one will enhance a certain aspect of beauty.
- What do you like to photograph best?
I like to photograph details and people in their everyday activities.
- What technical aspect of photography do you find most challenging?
I am eager to learn something new everyday. I am now learning how to use a view camera. I find this challenging and enjoyable.
- Is there a particular group you feel is misunderstood or stereotyped that you’d like to document common humanity amongst?
Any group can be stereotyped by another group.
- Do you have an idea worth sharing?
I have so many ideas that I do not have much time to sleep. My brain never stops working.
My Biography
Karine is a full time humanitarian law/conflict and peacekeeping specialist and a photographer and artist the rest of the time.
My Recent Activity
- I added: Stonetown, Zanzibar
to Galleries on November 15, 2010 - I added: Shanga
to Photo Stories on November 14, 2010 - I added: Portraits - Around Arusha
to Galleries on August 20, 2010 - I added: The Plaster House
to Photo Stories on August 20, 2010 - I added: Stonetown, Zanzibar
to Galleries on August 19, 2010
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