From Reporter to Love Porter | Afshin Valinejad | TEDxKyoto

アフシン・バリネジャド/フリーランスジャーナリスト・写真家/『From reporter to love porter』
アフシン・バリネジャドは彼の母国であるイランやアフガニスタン等での主要な出来事、紛争、災害を伝えジャーナリストとして活躍してきました。
フリーランスジャーナリストとして3.11東日本大震災、津波、福島原発事故の影響を取材するうちに、そこに深い人生の目的と深い愛の意味を見出しました。

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1966, Afshin Valinejad began his professional career in 1993 working as assistant bureau chief in Tehran for the Yomiuri Shimbun. From 1996 to 2002 he was an Associated Press correspondent covering major events, conflicts and disasters in the region, including the war in Afghanistan and the influx of Kurdish and Afghan refugees. He then went on to serve as broadcast specialist for NHK World in Tokyo. Now a freelance journalist, Afshin has made over 60 visits to the disaster zones following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Along
the way he has taken thousands of photos of Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster, sharing his thoughts and photographs in dozens of presentations including university lectures, workshops, seminars in Iran and Japan, and in photo exhibitions in JICA Tokyo, NIKON Plaza Ginza and in Iran.

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