'Reframing Afghanistan' photo exhibition
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Jennifer McCarthy, PhD student in the Department of Geography, currently has some of her PhD research on display to the public at Canada House on Trafalgar Square.
Reframing Afghanistan is a photography exhibition that tells the stories of vulnerable rural Afghans through their own eyes. The photographs were taken by Afghan research participants themselves in a remote northern province of Afghanistan and focus on the themes they wanted to communicate to a global audience: the lack of access to basic services such as education and safe water, the legacy of violence conflict, but also inspiring stories of resilience and reconstruction. Their stories are at once surprising and touching. Many of the photographers did not know how to use a basic digital camera when they began this research, but they have emerged from this process as talented storytellers.
The exhibit is being shown alongside two other exhibits on Afghanistan in Canada House and they are all open to the public, free of charge, from 10.00 - 17.00, Monday - Friday. Reframing Afghanistan runs until 11 November.
Reframing Afghanistan is a photography exhibition that tells the stories of vulnerable rural Afghans through their own eyes. The photographs were taken by Afghan research participants themselves in a remote northern province of Afghanistan and focus on the themes they wanted to communicate to a global audience: the lack of access to basic services such as education and safe water, the legacy of violence conflict, but also inspiring stories of resilience and reconstruction. Their stories are at once surprising and touching. Many of the photographers did not know how to use a basic digital camera when they began this research, but they have emerged from this process as talented storytellers.
The exhibit is being shown alongside two other exhibits on Afghanistan in Canada House and they are all open to the public, free of charge, from 10.00 - 17.00, Monday - Friday. Reframing Afghanistan runs until 11 November.
Photo credit: Hamid, Khumsan village, Faryab province, Afghanistan, 2009.
