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.jpg "<div class=\"prop\"></div><p>Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya.
\"A severely manourished child in Dagahaley, one of three settlements in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camp. Hundreds of Somali refugees are arriving each day having fled drought,famine and civil war in Somalia.\"</p><div class=\"clear\"></div>")
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A severely manourished child in Dagahaley, one of three settlements in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camp. Hundreds of Somali refugees are arriving each day having fled drought,famine and civil war in Somalia."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Two Somali refugee girls run through a dust storm on the outskirts of Ifo settlement near Dadaab, Kenya. They are part of a recent exodus from Somalia due to continued civil war and the consequences of drought and famine."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A Somali refugee woman cradles her baby after dousing her elder daughter with water to keep cool under the sweltering sun in Dagahaley refugee camp near Dadaab, Kenya."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A refugee uses twigs and craps of material to build a shelter for her family. There is no room for most new arrivals in the Dadaab camps, so the thousands of people who arrive every week must carve out a place for themselves in the surrounding desert. Doctors Without Borders estimates that by the end of 2011 there will be 500,000 people living in and around the camps, which were originally built to accommodate 90,000."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A young Somali boy whose nomadic family fled from Bardere, Somalia to Kenya in May 2011 due to hunger, drought and war. They travelled 32 days by foot and donkey cart relying on the kindness of people along the way for food and water."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A young boy taking bone-thin cattle in search of pasture at the edge of Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya. Many recently arrived Somali refugees have lost all of their animals to the ravishing effects of a prolonged drought in Somalia. Animals that are still alive are wasting from lack of pasture."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A neighbor digs the grave of Raba Hassan, a 35-year old refugee from Somalia. Hassan arrived 2 months ago to Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya after a 290 km journey from Sakow, Somalia. She is survived by her five children."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A severely malnourished child in the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Dagahaley refugee camp. Malnutrition rates have skyrocketed in the camp since the crisis began earlier this year."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Somali refugees in Dagahaley refugee camp carrying their sick and malnourished children to a new feeding center run by Doctors Without Borders on the outskirts of the sprawling refugee camp in Kenya."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Portrait of a Somali refugee girl waiting to be settled in Ifo camp in Kenya. There are 390,000 acutely malnourished children in southern Somalia according to the United Nations."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Mariam Mohamud, 30, has given birth to a baby girl during the night. Mariam wraps her child in a red cloth and holds her at a health screening center run by Doctors Without Borders in Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "A father craddles his severely malnourished child on a bus provided by UNHCR and IOM to move a group of stranded vulnerable refugees from Hamey, Kenya near the Somalia border refugee camps near Dadaab, Kenya. Most refugees make the journey from the border to the camps by foot at great peril. The roads are lined with bandits and many women report being raped during the trek."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Somali refugees dig the grave of Ibrahim Issack, a six year old child who died of complications of severe malnutrition a month after arriving in the camp, according to his uncle Hassan Issack. "We fled Buaale and traveled for 21 days by foot. It was very tiresome. we walked through drought with no food and little water. Along the way we were robbed and women were raped. They were attacked between after crossing the border into Kenya. Utensils, matresses and money were stollen."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya July 22, 2011. "Fatuma Badel fled Buale, Somalia with 8 children after leaving her sick husband. 'He became sick and I couldn't carry him. I don't know if he is alive or dead. This one, my youngest child was like a dead person when I arrived. Now I thank God I can hear him cry again.' Badel has spent 3 days in the Doctors Without Borders hospital with her baby Mohamud who arrived severely malnourished. At nine months old he weighs 4.3 KG."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Daud Ali, a severely malnourished child at a Doctors Without Borders' therapeautic feeding center in Dagahaley camp in Kenya."
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "Somali refugee Abdi Fatah Aden's arm was broken by a bullet when he was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle in Somalia He was treated by Doctors Without Borders in Mareray before his family fled to the refugee camp in Kenya. His arm became infected during the family's journey. Upon arrival in Kenya he was admitted to the hospital in Dagahaley camp, Dadaab. July, 2011"
Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya. "An elderly paralyzed Somali refugee waits for trasnport to the registration center in Ifo camp, part of the refugee camp cluster in Dadaab kenya, host to 400,000 refugees."
.jpg "<div class=\"prop\"></div><p>Copyright Brendan Bannon. Location: Dadaab Kenya.
\"A severely manourished child in Dagahaley, one of three settlements in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camp. Hundreds of Somali refugees are arriving each day having fled drought,famine and civil war in Somalia.\"</p><div class=\"clear\"></div>"){kind=small}
From his home base in Africa since 2005, Brendan Bannon, www.brendanbannon.com, has expressed fervent devotion to the humanitarian plight of his subjects through the art of photojournalism, a talent inspired in him by his father Anthony and by his mother who processed film at home in a makeshift darkroom. During his twenties, Brendan cared for his mother who became afflicted with multiple sclerosis, an experience he credits with informing his approach to photography.
“I don’t shy away from difficult stories. The experience of taking care of my mother showed me clearly that behind every moment of perceived suffering there is profound victory over circumstances. I look at people’s lives as being full of meaningful relationships, striving against the odds, achieving small victories.”
Brendan’s work in Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Tanzania, Congo and India has appeared in The New York Times, leading magazines and newspapers in Britain and the Christian Science Monitor. To occasionally catch his breath, he maintains a home stateside in upstate New York.
(Used by permission of the artist, Brendan Bannon)