Stanley Greene: Galería + Mini Bio

Presentamos una galería especial del fotoperiodista estadounidense Stanley Greene (1949-2017).

Ulitsa Lenin Prospekt, Grozny. December 1996. Formally housing the local Marsho Television station, this apartment block now stands like a ghostly apparition, its fa̤ade scarred by the star-shaped impact of artillery shells. «Grad missiles, rockets and bombs, destroying houses, trees, roads, and city blocks of apartment buildings. Tank gunners on the hills to the north fired rounds every three minutes for days on end. Incoming shells smashed onto the city every few seconds for hour after hour. Observers counted 4,000 detonations in a single hour. It was the heaviest artillery bombardment that anyone had seen since the Second World War.» -Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal, ‘Chechnya, A Small Victorious War’

Stanley Greene ©noorimages 2013 Aleppo, Syria Death is covered in a black Shroud , a last warning before entering Hell Outskirts Of Aleppo

Grozny, August 1996. Railway station.

Urus Martan. January 1995.

Stanley Greene ©noorimages 2013 Aleppo, Syria Aldakkak Hospital , Aleppo , Syria At the entrance of the Aldakkak hospital lies the corpses with no ID, people pass by, they just lift the white sheet, they make sure he isn’t a brother, or a cousin. A reminder of how dangerous the streets of Aleppo are sits in front of a hospital , covered in a white sheet with the blood leaking out of the body on to the streets .

Prospekt Pobedy, Grozny. November 1995. Rebels were hanged here from telephone wires by the Russian infantry. «Welcome to Hell. You?re lost now. You will die a slow and painful death. We will teach you to respect Russian officers.» -Spoken by a Russian soldier.

Mabuhay Gardens, 1984. Stanley Greene © Noorimages 2013 Bonnie Hayes under Paul ZaulÕs drums after a Yanks gig.

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Asya, portrait of a woman Now 22 with the face of an angel, she was carried off and raped at the age of 14. A man entered the family house while she was alone, threw a bag over her head, and hurriedly put her in the car where his accomplices were waiting. He kept her for a few days. He married with her. Chechen traditions allow a man to kidnap the woman he wants to marry, with or without her consent. After the birth of their child, her husband became jealous, drinking and beating her. She escaped to her sister in Grozny. She decided to become a nurse. After graduating from nursing school she met her second husband. She became a fighting nurse.

Stanley GREENE / Agence VU Iraq, June 2005

Survivors of the Samashki massacre, April 1995. Women and children took flight after an infamous massacre. Russian troops are accused of destroying the village by torching houses, pillaging, raping and executing civilians. Of 100 people killed, only four were identified as rebels.

Bustan al-Qasr frontline neighborhood, April 5, 2013. Unknown bodies found in the Aleppo river are buried in a children playground under sniper fire

Aslam Khan warehouse yard, Shershah, Karachi, Pakistan. Sher Shah in Karachi is one of the principle markets for second hand and scrap materials where all sorts of electronics, electrical, spare parts, are smuggled. Goods arrive by sea and land, non-usuable waste is crushed into cubes .The presence of these cubes dumped alongside water bodies or the disposal at landfills are extremely injurious to all living beings including humans.

Chechnya, Grozny, soldiers loading dead bodies on truck, side view . January 1995.

«On the border», portrait of Stanley Greene by Kristel Eerdekens on the Chechen-Ingush border, january 2000

Iraq, Tikkirt, people running away from bombing, elevated view

Putin’s Russia – The Darkness of Russia June 2001 Volgograd, Russia Drug raid, the OMON squad is a special purpose police unit, militia-comando outfit. They wear military style uniforms and sometimes masks, blue flak jackets and carry machine pistols, AK-47’s.

Putin’s Russia – The Darkness of Russia 2002 Ussunysk Region, Russia at the Chinese border. A chinese spy who crossed over into Russia and was captured. He was imprisoned, when he was released, they tattooed his leg so he could not return to China. He became a spy for the Russians, reporting on other chinese agent, smuggling or anything criminal under soviet times. One day his handlers stopped contacting him, becoming an unemployed spy. He now smuggles goods and people across the two borders. Many people use the trains to transport suspected goods to Moscow and the rest of Russia.

Putin’s Russia – The Darkness of Russia 2002 Rybachi village near Vladivostok. Volydya or «Wolf» lives in Rybachi village. The Russian tatoo on his back reads «One man is a wolf to another man.» Just after he finished school he went to prison for stealing and was in possesion of a gun and received 2 and a half years. He says he had to steal because his family didn’t make enough money. After he got out of prison he wanted to join the army. He longed for a normal life and he knew that without the army he had not chance to stay out of jail. The army commission rejected him with the following explanation «We won’t give you a gun so you can rob someone else.» He could not find a job and was returned to prison for stealing again. When he got out of prison a local policeman told him «Let us know when you decide to go back to jail, we’ll come and drive you there.»

Russia, Moscow, rebel leader conversing on telephone

Ingushetia, June 2000. Sleptovsk-Sputnik refugee camp.

Chechnya, Grozny, woman staring 1995-2003 Downtown Grozny, April 2001. Since the death of her child Zelina often stares at something far away, elusive. She says she is already dead herself, if only time would hurry up.

Stanley Green

Por Óscar Colorado Nates*

Stanley Greene fue un fotoperiodista estadounidense que podría resumir su vida y actitud en la frase «sed de justicia.» En su adolescencia formó parte de los Black Panthers y su mentor fue nada menos que W. Eugène Smith. Greene estudió en la School of Visual Arts de Nueva York.

Greene trabajó en la década de 1970 y parte de la de 1980 la escena Punk en San Francisco. Hizo una pausa hacia 1986 cuando se mudó a París. Entonces se convirtió al fotoperiodismo. Cubrió la caída del Muro de Berlín (1989) realizó fotoos den los campos de refugiados en Mauritania y Mali (1992( y siguió al rebelde sudanés Riek Machar (1993).

Luego curbió el genocidio en Ruanda (1994) y trabahó en Chechenia en (1996), luego fue uno de los pocos periodistas occidentales en Fallujah cuando los contrastistas de Blackwater fueron asesinados y sus cuerpos quemados y colgados de un puente. La experiencia le afectó profundamente.

Stanley obtuvo el reconocimiento Katrina Media Fellowship en 2006 por su trabajo durante el huracán Katrina.

Luego estuvo en Líbano (2006) y Afganistán (2008). Cubrió extensamente los conflictos en Siria desde 2013. Fundó su propia agencia, NOOR.

En 2012 publicó su libro autobiográfico Black Passport.

A lo largo de su vida obtuvo numerosos reconocimientos como el Lifetime Achivement Visa d’Or Award (2016), el Aftermath Project Grant (2013), el Prix International Planète Albert Kahn (2011), W. Eugene Smith Award (2004), el Alicia Patterson Fellowship (1998) y cino premios World Press Photo.

Sus fotografías son duras, pero se le ha calificado también como un poeta de la imagen. En una entrevista para el New York Times dijo: «Tú quieres snetarte cómodamente con tu periódico y un muffin de zarzamora, y no quieres ver fotos que van a arruinar tu mañana. El trabajo del fotoperiodista es arruinar tu mañana.»[1] También dijo en aquella ocasión «[los fotógrafos] tenemos que ser embajadores de la verdad, […]porque el público ya no cree en los medios. Somos considerando mercaderes de la miseria…»[2]

Stanley Greene murió a los 68 años por complicaciones derivadas del cáncer de hígado el 19 de mayo de 2017.

Comunicador transmedia: conductor de radio, columnista en el periódico El Universal (Cd. de México).

Co-fundador de la Sociedad Mexicana de Daguerrotipia y miembro de The Photographic Historical Society (Rochester, NY).

Las opiniones vertidas en los artículos y producciones audio-visuales son personales.
© 2017 by Óscar Colorado Nates. Todos los Derechos Reservados. Esta publicación se realiza sin fines de lucro y con fines de investigación, enseñanza y/o crítica académica, artística y científica. 

Notas y fuentes de investigación

[1]Estring, James. «Stanley Greene, Teller of Uncomfortable Truths, Dies at 68». https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/stanley-greene-teller-of-uncomfortable-truths-dies-at-68/ Consultada el 20 de mayo de 2017

[2] Ibídem

• Estring, James. «Stanley Greene, Teller of Uncomfortable Truths, Dies at 68». https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/stanley-greene-teller-of-uncomfortable-truths-dies-at-68/ Consultada el 20 de mayo de 2017
• Laurente, Olivier. «Stanley Green. The Death of a Poet.» http://time.com/stanley-greene/ Consultada el 20 de mayo de 2017
• L’Oeil de la Photographie. «American photographer Stanley Greene dies in Paris.» http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/05/19/article/159952312/american-photographer-stanley-greene-dies-in-paris/ Consultada el 20 de mayo de 2017
• Noor. «Stanley Greene.» http://noorimages.com/photographer/greene/ Consultada el 20 de mayo de 2017

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