Cardiff After Dark

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I live in Cardiff but I am not from here," says Dakowicz. "And, though I often take a few drinks for courage, I was not partying with the people I photographed. I was on the outside watching, observing. So, yes, I am an outsider, but I also interact. I am not a sneaky photographer, trying to shoot something and then run away." Shepherd JP, Farrington D P, Potts A J C (2002). Relations between offending, injury and illness. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 95:539-544.

I was interested. Their religion was very important to them. They were solid and had a belief system I didn’t have.Maciej, originally from Bialystok, Poland, moved to Cardiff’s Cathays area in the early 2000s and began documenting the city’s nightlife.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good” – Garry Winogrand

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An experimental study and time series analysis of the Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention 28 Setting Mike the younger said: “Things happen when you’re drunk. I hit my cousin in the face on my 20th birthday.” Dakowicz was born in 1976 in Bialystok, Poland. He came to Cardiff from Hong Kong in 2004, to work and study at the University of Glamorgan for a PhD in computer science, which he obtained in 2010. That same year, he opened the Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff with his friend and fellow photographer, Joni Karanka. The next five years were taken up with establishing his new department and two new research groups including Cardiff University’s Violence Research Group. To explore multiagency violence prevention in the County of Cardiff, he also invited South Wales Police, Cardiff County Council, the local district health authority and the third sector organisation, Victim Support, to send representatives to a meeting. He proposed that violence prevention should be based not only on police intelligence – incomplete because so much serious violence is not reported - but also on information collected in and shared by the University Hospital of Wales ED – the sole ED serving the capital city of Wales. These two developments operationalised violence prevention from a public health standpoint for the first time and, crucially, integrated evaluation with this. Genesis and development of the Cardiff Model

Second edition, 2009. Self published, Blurb. Contains 114 photographs from between 2003 and 2008. [n 1] Hanan’s younger sister Lisa also converted and their parents moved to Cardiff and enjoy celebrating Eid with their grandchildren, all of whom are Muslim. Most convincingly, a systematic review of evaluations of the Model by public health academics at Deakin University, Australia 26 and a meta-analysis led by public health academics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa 27, provide evidence that this approach is effective. The Deakin University review of nine evaluations concluded that: Dakowicz is best known for his series of photographs of Cardiff night-life titled Cardiff after Dark, [2] also the name of his later book. Photographed over four years, [8] photographs from the series have featured in magazines and been exhibited in galleries. Individual images from the series have also been used out of context and with misleading captions by the British tabloid media to support a single narrative about alcoholic excess. This tabloid practice has been criticised; for example, Jonathan Jones wrote in The Guardian that "Humour is the most obvious thing about his pictures, and their attraction lies in the way they balance grotesque abandon with poised, coolly beautiful lighting." [8] [9] Sean O'Hagan said in The Guardian that "it is not all outrageousness and vulgarity: Dakowicz also catches the sense of camaraderie and celebration in Cardiff on a Saturday night. He has an outsider's eye for telling detail, a way of showing us, in often brilliantly dramatic fashion and with a degree of gleeful humour, what is right under our noses." [1]

Encouraged by WHO endorsement, interest, pilot projects and implementation in other countries followed, including in Colombia in South America prompted by the country’s Attorney General, Nova Scotia in Canada prompted by the province’s chief medical officer, and Jamaica, prompted by the chairman of the country’s Violence Prevention Alliance. Facilitated by the Pan American Health Organisation, the Model is being implemented as part of Jamaica’s 2018-2030 National Plan of Action for an Integrated Response to Children and Violence. 60 Contributed Studio for the Arts". In-Public. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 5 April 2016. Shepherd JP & Farrington D P (1993). Assault as a Public Health problem. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 86:89-94. During the day, Cardiff is full of people shopping, but as the sun goes down and the streetlights come on, the city centre transforms and all manner of things come out at night, especially on the weekend.

At the same time a few miles down the road 35 year-old John Smith was seeking out Muslims but for different reasons.Street Pastors are volunteers from local churches who patrol in teams of men and women, usually from 10pm to 4am on a Friday and Saturday night, to care for, listen to and help people who out on the streets, whether celebrating on a hen night or homeless. Krug EG et al., eds. (2002). World report on violence and health. Geneva, World Health Organization.