patrick rohr.photojournalist
Helvetas.
Helvetas is the largest Swiss development organization. I regularly visit their projects around the world for photos, reports and fundraising material. Here you find all the stories that I've photographed and written for the organisation's magazine Partnerschaft and other publications so far.
Ruedi Lüthy Foundation.
In 2003, the renowned Swiss AIDS specialist Ruedi Lüthy founded the Newlands Clinic for people living with AIDS and HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe. I regularly visit the clinic and its patients to collect fundraising material and general pictures and videos.
Rainbow Support Network.
Incited by radical American evangelists, political leaders in Uganda intended to introduce the death penalty for homosexuality. This was only prevented thanks to international pressure. But still, homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in many other African countries. The law is exceptionally harsh: People who get caught in a homosexual act face up to 20 years in jail. Related parties and landlords who don’t denounce known LGBTI persons to the government are sentenced to seven years in prison. I travelled to Uganda on behalf of the foundation Rainbow Support Network.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières MSF.
On behalf of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), I visited the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, the largest refugee camp in the world. Since 2017, almost one million people have been living in an area where there used to be large forests and a few small villages. It is a challenging situation not only for the refugees, but also for the people who have been living there for a long time.
Book Japan.
In my book Japan - Abseits von Kirschblüten und Kimono (Japan - Beyond Cherry Blossoms and Kimono) I show Japan in a way that is different from the way a tourist might explore the country. It is a very personal Japan with many intimate images and stories.
Book New Silk Road.
For my latest photojournalistic book Die neue Seidenstrasse - Chinas Weg zur Weltmacht, I travelled along the New Silk Road from Shanghai in China to Western Europe. With more than 250 photos and many in-depth stories about the different countries I visited, the book gives a deep insight into the gigantic Chinese infrastructure project, officially called The Belt and Road Initiative.
Documentary Japan.
When I was traveling through Japan for my book Japan - Abseits von Kirschblüten und Kimono, Swiss public television SRF accompanied me to produce a documentary about my encounters in Japan. You can find the three full-length episodes here.
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