Today marks the International Day Against Police Brutality. To highlight the dangerous nature of crowd-control weapons and the lasting impact they have on people’s lives and health, International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) launched a multimedia project, Unhealed Wounds – The Faces Behind the Injuries of Crowd-Control Weapons.
Today marks the International Day Against Police Brutality. To highlight the dangerous nature of crowd-control weapons and the lasting impact they have on people’s lives and health, International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) launched a multimedia project, Unhealed Wounds – The Faces Behind the Injuries of Crowd-Control Weapons.
The project combines photography, video and audio recordings to bring to light faces and stories of people injured by crowd-control weapons during protests. At the time of the events most of the eleven men and women highlighted in this project were either protesters, publicly expressing their grievances and demands in different parts of the world, or accidental passersby.
INCLO and its member organizations contributed closely in devising the concept and producing all the materials. The photos and videos were commissioned from local photographers and artists from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Russia, South Africa and the United States. With the exception of the Russian and Egyptian cases, all videos were taken at the location where the incidents happened.
For more information on the project: https://www.inclo.net/projects/unhealed-wounds/
In 2015, during a protest I was documenting, an Israeli riot policeman targeted me with a stun grenade that injured me and destroyed my equipment. For the original blog post, including images and a detailed description of that traumatic event, see here: https://schwarczenberg.com/i-need-your-assistance-please-share-widely/ It was my realization of the damage inflicted by crowd-control weapons, the impunity of police forces, and the effects of its attendant trauma that led me to participate this this project.
