玛格南摄影师 Ilkka Uimonen& John Vink& Burt Glinn

前年的时候心血来潮把玛格南主页上介绍摄影师的个人资料翻译了几个，在无忌上发过，在这里重发一下。

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Ilkka Uimonen

选择这小子主要是发现他25岁才开始摸相机，给了我莫大的鼓励和诱惑
随便乱翻译的，凑合看一下吧，有什么翻译的错误还望海涵。括号里的是我自己找的一点背景材料。

Finnish, b. 1966 芬兰人，1966年出生。

Ilkka Uimonen grew up in the small town of Rovaniemi, just south of the Arctic Circle. After high school, he began to travel extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, working odd jobs to pay his way. When he was 25, he found a camera in a London pub where he was working. Thus began his career as a photojournalist. He later enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, in Netherlands, and in 1993 began freelancing for local and national newspapers.

芬兰小伙Ilkka Uimonen 出生在紧靠北极圈偏南一点的一个隶属罗瓦涅米的小镇（罗瓦涅米市简介，罗瓦涅米旅游介绍）。高中毕业后这小子游历四方，一边打打零工一边游遍了美国、欧洲和亚洲。25岁的时候在伦敦工作的酒吧里得到一台相机，然后就开始了摄影师的生涯。不久后到位于荷兰海牙的荷兰海牙皇家艺术学院上学，并于1993年成为为地区和国家报纸服务的自由摄影师。

In the mid-1990s, Uimonen returned to New York and participated in a workshop at the International Center of Photography. He then took part in the Eddie Adams workshop, where he met Elaine Laffont, president of the Sygma Photo News agency, who offered him work in New York.

九十年代中期，Uimonen 回到纽约加入了国际摄影中心的一个工作室。而后加入Eddie Adams的工作室（他就是拍那个在街头枪决北越间谍的摄影师）并结识了Elaine Laffont--西格玛新闻图片社的头儿，Elaine Laffont给他在纽约找了个活儿。

Uimonen has spent considerable time in Serbia, arriving in Yugoslavia in 1999 three days before NATO air strikes began. He stayed eight weeks, until his visa extension request was denied and he was forced to leave.

Uimonen 在塞尔维亚呆了不少时间后于1999年到达南斯拉夫，仅三天后北约开始空袭轰炸。在那里他呆了八个星期，直到他签证延期的要求被拒然后被强行遣返。

Afghanistan has also been a focus of Uimonen’s work. He first visited the country in 1996, and spoke of the extreme destruction of the land, and of the deplorable living conditions of its people. Later, he visited the central Afghanistan region of Hazarajat, documenting the famine that arose when Northern Alliance forces blocked food deliveries to the ethnic Hazara people – whom they accused of collaborating with the Taliban – and because UN aid could rarely get through to the mountainous region.

阿富汗也是Uimonen关注过的地区。他第一次去阿富汗是1996年，记录了这片土地的毁灭和当地人民凄惨的生活。不久后他来到阿富汗的中部地区哈扎拉贾特（哈扎拉人(Hazaras)是成吉思汗的后裔。17世纪，阿富汗中部的哈扎拉地区（Hazarajat）被波斯湾帝国占领。当时该地区正皈依什叶派伊斯兰。在阿富汗，哈扎拉人总是受苦受难最深的，他们在政治、经济、文化和宗教领域完全被边缘化。在塔利班统治之下，他们一批批被屠杀，因为塔利班是沙特瓦哈比主义在阿富汗的代理人：那是伊朗与沙特在阿富汗心脏地带激烈竞争的生动例子，就像亲巴基斯坦的普什图人与亲伊朗的哈扎拉人之间的竞争一样。哈扎拉人占阿富汗总人口的16％。德黑兰将他们当作后塔利班时期阿富汗的一股重要政治势力而给予支援。但跟以往一样，它并未被划进“什叶派新月”），记录因北部联盟切断给异族哈扎拉人--他们被指控与塔利班勾结--的食物供给后造成的食物短缺，因为联合国的援助很难通过山区。

Uimonen has also spent much time working in Palestine and Israel, traveling to Jerusalem on September 25, 2000 to photograph in the Old City. Three days later, Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa mosque, in what seemed to the watching world to be a flagrant disregard for the sensitivities of the Palestinians. As the vehemence escalated, Uimonen sought out flashpoints on both sides, following the cycle of violence as it moved from one location to the next. The images were published in a book Cycles, a sequence of 61 photographs of the combatants and the innocents, presented without any discernable chronology.

Uimonen 在巴勒斯坦和以色列也呆了很久。他于2000年9月25日抵达耶路撒冷拍摄老城，三天后沙龙探访圣殿山和山上的阿克萨清真寺，此举被外界视为对敏感的巴勒斯坦人的极端漠视。随着愤怒的不断升级，Uimonen注意到暴力冲突四处，巴以双方的对峙一触即发。在巴以的照片发表在《Cycles》一书里，这是一组61张关于战斗者和无辜受害者照片的画册，画册里的照片排列没有任何可识别的时间顺序。

Uimonen is firmly established in the photojournalism world, covering stories from Indonesia to the Middle East for major American and European publications. His photographs appear in "Newsweek", "Time", "People", "National Geographic", "Foto8", and other magazines worldwide. He has been an associate member of Magnum Photos since 2002, and has received several awards for his photographs.

Uimonen 在新闻摄影领域树立了自己的风格，为美国及欧洲的主流刊物如：新闻周刊，时代周刊，人物杂志，美国国家地理杂志，Foto8，等拍摄图片故事，涉及的地区从印度尼西亚直到中东。2002年，Uimonen成为玛格南图片社的准会员，他的不少作品已经为他赢得几个奖项（46届荷赛突发新闻（组照）二等奖：巴拉塔难民营，47届荷赛突发事件类(组照)三等奖）。