Sarah Catherine Craig

Documentary Photographer & Radio Journalist

www.sarahcraigmedia.com

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Location: California + Montana

Nationality: USA

Biography: Sarah Craig is a documentary photographer and multimedia storyteller based in Oakland, CA. A native of Bozeman, MT, she left the mountainous West to attend Vassar College on the East Coast, where she completed a B.A. in Geography. She attended... MORE

In telling ourselves the history of the atomic bomb, we can too often think they were only dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there were other bombs that fell -- they just weren’t dropped on people. Not directly. They were dropped on islands. Islands in the South Pacific. The Marshall Islands.

Greta Briand had a front row seat to the Cold War. Between 1946 and '58, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs in her homeland, the Marshall Islands, an archipelago of coral atolls in the South Pacific. Greta and many of her people were uprooted and scattered across the world. The first group settled in Costa Mesa, California. That’s where I met Greta and learned how she helps her Marshallese community cope with the devastating health effects of the nuclear experiments. Listen to the story that aired in July of 2017 on the California Report Magazine here.

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The Bombs Last Blast - KQED's Q'ed Up Podcast

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Healing America's Forgotten Nuclear Refugees -- KQED's California Report Magazine

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Nuclear Refugees in Oklahoma, Without Health Care -- NPR's Morning Edition

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Copyright Sarah Catherine Craig 2023

Date of Work Jun 2017 - Jan 2018

Updated Apr 2020

Topics Cancer, Documentary, Dying/Death, Environment, Historical, Human Rights, Loss, Migration, Multimedia, Poverty, Violence, War, Weapons

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