http://stocklandmartelblog.com/2010/06/07/save-the-date-children-of-south-africa-benefit-in-nyc-on-june-16/ News, commentary, interviews, video, and more from photo agency Stockland Martel Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:50:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://stocklandmartelblog.com/2010/06/07/save-the-date-children-of-south-africa-benefit-in-nyc-on-june-16/#comment-1255 Douglas Scott Treado Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:02:15 +0000 http://stocklandmartelblog.com/?p=4706#comment-1255 Would love to see this show! (Am presently in Edenton, North Carolina, working on historic preservation of a historic home here.) During the early 1960's, I did a lot of black & white photography in Africa (1963-64 in Senegal and Mauretania, while a Peace Corps Volunteer, then again as the first African Program Director for the NGO International Rescue Committee, in what was the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now, Botswana)...I spent 1965-6 in that country, keeping South African and SouthWest African refugees alive--all had escaped apartheid in the "Republic" of South Africa and also the "UN mandated" country of South West Africa (now Namibia), which was under the thumb of S. Africa. There were at that time 11,000 political prisoners held in dentention or prison in S. Africa at that time. (Unfortunately, all of my negatives from 1962-68 sunk in a ocean freighter incident in Sept. 1968, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence...) However, some of my photos from Senegal were purchased by the National Council of Churches/Church World Service, and are enlarged and framed, hanging on the walls of their headquarters in Riverside Drive in New York City, since 1965. Best wishes to all for this upcoming event in NYC, and great to see that some of needed social changes have occured since the dark days of the mid-1960's in South Africa! Would love to see this show! (Am presently in Edenton, North Carolina, working on historic preservation of a historic home here.) During the early 1960′s, I did a lot of black & white photography in Africa (1963-64 in Senegal and Mauretania, while a Peace Corps Volunteer, then again as the first African Program Director for the NGO International Rescue Committee, in what was the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now, Botswana)…I spent 1965-6 in that country, keeping South African and SouthWest African refugees alive–all had escaped apartheid in the “Republic” of South Africa and also the “UN mandated” country of South West Africa (now Namibia), which was under the thumb of S. Africa. There were at that time 11,000 political prisoners held in dentention or prison in S. Africa at that time. (Unfortunately, all of my negatives from 1962-68 sunk in a ocean freighter incident in Sept. 1968, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence…) However, some of my photos from Senegal were purchased by the National Council of Churches/Church World Service, and are enlarged and framed, hanging on the walls of their headquarters in Riverside Drive in New York City, since 1965.
Best wishes to all for this upcoming event in NYC, and great to see that some of needed social changes have occured since the dark days of the mid-1960′s in South Africa!

]]>