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Photographs by Kim Haughton, Marie McCallan and Brenda Fitzsimons.

Concern has established a group called “Women of Concern”.  It supports Concern’s work with girls and women in the world’s poorest countries.  In early 2010 three photographers travelled to Haiti, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, to document the lives of women living there.  Riverbank Arts Centre is very pleased to present the resulting images by Kim Haughton, Marie McCallan and Brenda Fitzsimons.  Their stunning photographs show the strength and perseverance of women living in desperate situations, from the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, to rural Ethiopia and the streets of Dhaka in Bangladesh. They also show how Concern can work with women to help improve their lives and the lives of their families and communities.
 
Kim Haughtonis an award winning photojournalist and lecturer in Documentary Photography. She is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology School of Photography. She has documented issues in over twenty countries throughout her career so far, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work regularly appears in publications worldwide. Recently, she has been experimenting with documentary film making, earning her an award for her first short. She is represented by Via Visuals and Polaris Images.(www.kimhaughton.com)
 
Marie McCallan,moved to Ireland in 1994 from Scotland when she finished college in Glasgow.  Having spent over a year as a photographer in a design studio in Co. Tyrone, she moved to Co. Clare in 1997 to be close to her family, and joined Press 22 in Limerick.  Since 1997 Marie has worked as a photo-journalist with Press 22, which has also taken her to work in the four corners of Ireland as well as Israel, France, Belarus and now Bangladesh.(www.press22.com)
 
Brenda Fitzsimonsis one of Ireland’s leading press photographers working today, and the first woman staff photographer with The Irish Times. A native of Galway, Brenda moved to Dublin in 1989 and joined the Irish Press as a staff photographer until its closure in 1995. She freelanced for the Irish Star newspaper until joining the Irish Times in 2000. Brenda has won numerous awards including the A.T.Cross Photographer of the Year, Freelance Photographer of the Year and the most coveted PPAI Press Photographer of the Year Award.(www.ppai.ie/photographer/Brenda-Fitzsimons/817/)
 
For further information see www.concern.net/womenofconcern
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