Adam Nadel

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Adam Nadel

Adam Nadel is an American photographer based in New York City. His exhibitions include If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel, which comprises 30 portraits of people involved in the Bosnian War, Rwandan Genocide and war in Darfur; and Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, a multimedia exhibition illustrating malaria’s impact.

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  • Pham Van Diep, 12, right, and his brother, Pham Van Duc, 10. The boys live near Da Nang, Vietnam, an area heavily sprayed with defoliants during the Vietnam War, and both have undergone numerous medical procedures to correct ailments doctors attribute to dioxin contamination. The places in Vietnam that were heavily sprayed with Agent Orange, an herbicide that contains dioxins, have a birth defect rate of 2.4 percent, significantly higher than the national average of 0.6 percent. Diep says his friends all think his scars are the result of a fight. He doesn’t correct them.
    Photo by: Adam Nadel
  • These mosquitoes are being used to create a malaria vaccine thought to be the Holy Grail of malaria control. Mosquitoes kill more people than any other insect or animal. By transmitting malaria from human to human, mosquitoes are responsible for as many as 2.5 million deaths a year. Nearly half the world’s population lives under the threat of contracting malaria. The parasite prays on the most vulnerable of society: at least 700,000 children under 5 years of age will die this year. The disease takes an economic toll, too. Malaria costs Africa an estimated 12 billion dollars annually in lost productivity.
    Photo by: Adam Nadel
  • Nambassa Miriyamge, Uganda. Miriyamge’s three-year-old daughter died of malaria. “It was a very sad time, a bad time for the entire family,” she recalls. “We are still deeply affected by her death, and I truly fear this disease.” As many as 2.5 million people die from malaria each year, leaving an inescapable legacy of guilt and sorrow.
    Photo by: Adam Nadel
  • A boy on the way back from cutting the grass in Sa Pao, Cambodia. The yearly monsoon rains provide much needed respite from the tropical heat and bring life-sustaining water for crops and livestock. But standing water left behind also provides a breeding ground for malaria-bearing mosquitoes. As a result, in the humid aftermath of the monsoon, infection and mortality rates increase. Paradoxically, intense rain adversely affects mosquito reproduction by disturbing the standing water enough to lower hatching rates. Populations can increase, however, when the rain lessens.
    Photo by: Adam Nadel

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