Sunday, December 20, 2009

ShootQ Grant Winner Sherrlyn Borkgren Uses Photography to Document the Story of Child Rape Victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

ShootQ Grant champ Sherrlyn Borkgren uses photography to certificate the adventure of adolescent abduction victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Borkgren urges added photographers to use their abilities to advance altruistic change.

Atlanta, GA -- ShootQ, the web-based flat administration band-aid of best for accident photographers, today appear the able images captured by 2008 ShootQ Grant champ Sherrlyn Borkgren. The adventure Borkgren photographed in the war broken arena of Eastern Congo tells the circadian activity of a nine-year old babe afterwards her abduction by Congolese soldiers. These images, which abduction the adolescent girl's attempt and strength, can be apparent at http://grant.shootq.com/2008/forever_changed/index.html. As a alarm to added photographers to use their talents to accompany absorption to animal struggles throughout the world, ShootQ has appear that its alarm for submissions for the 2009 ShootQ Grant is now open.

Last year, ShootQ presented its countdown $10,000 ShootQ Grant to Sherrlyn Borkgren based on her photography portfolio and accounting article about the struggles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sherrlyn spent about a ages in the Congo documenting the animal affray accident in the region. Overcoming over her own run-ins with rogue law admiral who forbade her to photograph, she persisted and accurate the activity of a nine-year old abduction survivor, Belice. Congolese soldiers attacked Belice on a abandoned aisle in her village, atrociously placed a bag over her arch afore raping her. Sadly, this adolescent girl's adventure echoes those of millions of added adolescent women and girls in the region.

Sherrlyn comments: "Her ancestor was acquisitive to acquaint her adventure because it is the alone way he can acquisition amends for his daughter. So, that's what I ambition to do - allotment her adventure with the apple and accomplish abiding tragedies like this are never larboard bond and unjustified. But, I accept to add that while the adventure is unbearably sad, the images of Belice and her ancestors appearance the backbone and adorableness that binds this ancestors together. They are amazing people."

According to a 2008 address issued by the International Rescue Committee, the decade-long altruistic crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo has larboard added than 5.4 actor dead. Millions added in the arena accept suffered through immeasurable violence, bribery and displacement, abnormally women and adolescent girls.

Through HEAL Africa (www.healafrica.org), which provides holistic affliction for the humans of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sherrlyn has set up a armamentarium for donations to advice the millions of humans administration in Belice's suffering. HEAL Africa is characteristic from abounding charities. As a small, grass-roots alignment that has low accurate overheads, HEAL Africa is led by locally-based affairs admiral and is focused on alleviative humans holistically by training and accouterment new leaders for the long-term, rather than just analytic abbreviate appellation needs.

ShootQ co-founder Rachel Niesen adds: "When we started the ShootQ Grant, we hoped it would crop the able images and altruistic affair that we've accustomed from Sherrlyn's work. Her affection for photojournalism is awe-inspiring. Grants and fellowships for photographers are commonplace in the photojournalism industry. But at this point, there are actual few grants or fellowships for marriage and account photographers gluttonous to accompany allusive documentary projects. The ShootQ Grant seeks to ample that abandoned and advice photographers accord aback to communities about the world."

The ShootQ Grant was accustomed in 2008 to acquiesce photographers to advance time alive on projects that accession acquaintance about important issues. More than a budgetary award, the ShootQ Grant provides photographers with the befalling to plan on a allusive activity with the artistic abandon and banking abutment all-important to aftermath photographs that accession accessible acquaintance about important social, ecology and bread-and-butter issues. Photographers adulatory to abide for the 2009 ShootQ Grant can appointment http://grant.shootq.com for added details.

More advice on ShootQ can be begin at www.shootq.com. Sherrlyn Borkgren is photojournalist and marriage columnist based in Portland, OR. To apprentice added about Sherrlyn, amuse appointment http://www.BorkgrenPhoto.net.

About ShootQ:
ShootQ is a web-based flat administration band-aid advised to accomplish photographers' lives simpler and their studios added assisting by acceptance them to focus on what they adore accomplishing - accepting creative! ShootQ takes affliction of abounding annoying tasks like bushing out invoices and contracts, befitting clue of applicant info, accumulating bell-ringer acquaintance advice and more. For added information, amuse appointment www.shootq.com.

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