MARK BRECKE: WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

An exhausted Sudanese mother and her seven children arrive at a refugee camp in Eastern Chad. (2004)

Biography

Mark Brecke is an independent filmmaker and documentary photographer. Covering over ten years and three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe), his work documents the stories of people victimized by war, ethnic conflict, and genocide.  In September of 2004, Brecke started photographing the refugee camps of Eastern Chad and traveled behind rebel lines in Darfur with the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA). Since returning from Darfur, he has been featured on National Geographic News, Current TV, NPR, and Democracy Now. Brecke's next documentary film, "They Turned Our Desert into Fire" (releasing this spring), captures AMTRAK passengers' reactions to photos and stories from Darfur while Brecke traveled from San Francisco to Washington D.C., in order to give his Darfur presentation to members of Congress in July, 2005. Brecke's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Berlin, Milan, and Cape Town, South Africa.

Check out his website - http://www.warandweddings.com/

Video about his photography

Sudan Video Series, Part 4: The Witness

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061220-sudan-video.html

Mark Brecke's photography in the news

Bearing Witness to Genocide - SF Cronicle Friday, March 16, 2007

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/DDG2UO4J1456.DTL