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Carsten Stormer is a German journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker who has spent many years reporting from conflict zones around the world. His work is distinguished by its intimate access to protagonists and its powerful, visually compelling storytelling. Since 2008, he has been based in Manila, serving as Zeitenspiegel’s Southeast Asia correspondent.
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Carsten Stormer, Reportage
The MONSTERS of the Maguindanao Massacre
Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Die Welt,“ November 22, 2010The Ampatuan clan murdered 58 people in the Philippines in 2009. Now the perpetrators are standing trial. And the witnesses fear for their lives.
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Carsten Stormer, Reportage
The Hair Weavers of New Ireland
Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Playboy,“ November 2010On an island in Papua New Guinea, people catch sharks with their bare hands – they are called the Shark Callers. A visit.
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Carsten Stormer, Reportage
The Cocaine Fishermen of Tasbapauni
Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Mare“, No. 78, February/March 2010This story is about a village in the Caribbean. Cocaine has made poor fishermen wealthy there. They call the substance the „White Lobster“ or „White Happiness.“ Some people don't approve of this; they believe the drug is destroying the village community.
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Carsten Stormer, Reportage
War without end
Author Carsten Stormer
Published in „Frankfurter Rundschau“, August 12, 2009Millions of people in Vietnam are still suffering from the consequences of Agent Orange – more than thirty years after the end of the war. A visit.
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Carsten Stormer, ReportageThe new victims of Agent Orange – 35 years after the end of the war
Photographer Carsten Stormer 12.08.2009
35 years after the end of the Vietnam War, approximately three million Vietnamese are still suffering from its consequences. Elderly people, teenagers, children, and babies languish in hospitals and nursing homes, in small villages in the Mekong Delta, in the northern mountains, in the Central Highlands, in large cities like Hanoi, Saigon, or Hue. An inherited curse that passes from generation to generation. Their carriers are recognized by their deformities. They are the forgotten victims of one of the greatest war crimes of the last century: the victims of Agent Orange. To this day, the US has paid not a cent in compensation.