APAC
“Our society is changing. New technologies and media have an important part to play in inspiring and shaping a positive future for all.”
APAC Association (Associated Photojournalism for Art & Culture)
APAC is a loose teamwork of artists, journalists, photojournalists, writers, publishers and documentarians from the UK, Ireland, Europe and the USA.
The association is established to advance education, to promote public appreciation of and participation in the visual and performing arts. It focuses on the art of photojournalism and documentary photography, drama, performance and music, and uses the visual and performing arts as a means to promote good citizenship and good community relations within fractured societies.
PROJECTS
The Citizens Wallpaper Project
Under the theme “Art for reconciliation,” the Citizens Wallpaper is aimed at supporting people in adopting peaceful means of expression by using art and technology. It embraces a people-centred approach, built around the access secured by other organisations who are central to project delivery.
The Citizens Wallpaper is a safe space where people can speak in confidence about themselves, their experiences and memories. It encourages us
to talk to each other, to learn from one another and to celebrate our differences through creativity.
Divided Cities
APAC’s celebrated international exhibition Divided Cities explores life in four cities that have been divided by segregation or security barriers. It commences in Belfast in 1973 and continues to the present, contrasting the experiences in Berlin at the fall of the wall (1989), Jerusalem (1990-1991) and Nicosia (2015-16). It documents ordinary lives after a rupture of the social fabric and investigates how ordinary people transform their environment in a positive response to exceptional circumstances.
International Media Panel
APAC’s International Media Panel consists of distinguished local and international journalists and photojournalists whose experiences of front-line reporting brings to workshops and seminars personal overviews and clarity in discussing the narrative around conflict causes and conflict resolution.
APAC’s Chairman is Martin Nangle
His work for the national and international media began during the Northern Ireland conflict and continued on secondment to Associated Press London bureau to work in Berlin, Jerusalem, Damascus, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq, Cairo, and later Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He documented the early years of post-Communism, the secessionist Wars in Yugoslavia and most recently photographed life in Burma. Over the last 25 years he has been the subject of television documentaries about his experiences as a photojournalist.
APAC’s Chairman is Martin Nangle
His work for the national and international media began during the Northern Ireland conflict and continued on secondment to Associated Press London bureau to work in Berlin, Jerusalem, Damascus, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq, Cairo, and later Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He documented the early years of post-Communism, the secessionist Wars in Yugoslavia and most recently photographed life in Burma. Over the last 25 years he has been the subject of television documentaries about his experiences as a photojournalist.
Bridge and Bond along the Border
“Bridge and Bond along the Border” is a three-year, two-phase project. A fifty-minute documentary records in two phases between 2019 and 2022 a visiting diaspora Irish family from Transylvania as they tour the Border from Inishowen to the Mournes. During Summer months they
engage a series of Bridge-and Bond micro-events promoting friendship and daily life connecting
communities and people.
CONTACT
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