Photographing Balykchy - Jo Kearney ARPS
Photographing Balykchy Jo Kearney ARPS
Jo Kearney is a video journalist and photographer. She has worked as a video journalist for the international news agency Associated Press TV for more than 25 years filming news and features. She has been based in Asia and the Middle East covering global news stories. She now lives in the UK and has spent the past 3 years covering Brexit among other things. Photography is her passion and when she is able to Jo travels to carry out photo projects. Her main photographic interests are travel, portraiture and documentary. She has long had a fascination for the Soviet Union and in 1992 spent 8 months travelling around it following the fall of communism. Since then she has returned to photograph in the former Soviet republics and has recently done projects in Kyrgyzstan. In this edition of The Decisive Moment we take a look at one of those projects, Balykchy - Portrait of a Former Industrial City. This feature starts with Jo’s account of how the project came to life, from initial idea through to its execution and is followed by a presentation of the project itself. www.jokearneyphotography.com
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