Photojournalist Erin Fredrichs accompanied a small group from Clear Path International on a three-week tour of its landmine survivor assistance programs in Southeast Asia last year. The compelling and deeply moving photographs Fredrichs took are now on display at Grace Episcopal Church on Bainbridge Island, Washington (near Seattle) through mid October. The pictures are a selection from Fredrich�s Master�s thesis project, �After the War�the Killing Continues,� towards her degree at Ohio University.
The photographs are a reminder of the lasting legacy of war in the form of unexploded landmines, bombs and anti-personnel devices that maim and kill long after the guns fall silent. But it also draws attention to the efforts of Clear Path International to assist injured accident victims and support their communities.
The images were taken at or around the areas where Clear Path has an active survivor assistance program in central Vietnam, eastern and western Cambodia, and along the troubled Thai-Burma border. They range from the dramatic abundance of leftover explosives and the resulting, devastating limb and eyesight loss to the introduction of new prosthetics technology in remote areas and an elementary school built on a former military base.
Fredrichs, 27, is now a news photographer at the Albuquerque Tribune in New Mexico. Before completing her Master�s in Photojournalism at Ohio University, she received a Bachelor�s degree in the same subject from Western Washington University in Bellingham. She hopes to return to SE Asia soon to do a second photo essay on the landmine problem.
The show, materials and Fredrichs trip to the region in 2005 were sponsored by the East West Foundation, Sound Reprographics, Colortone Inc., Roby King Galleries and Clear Path International.
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