Greg Constantine “Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya
power House Arena
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United Photo Industries is proud to present Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya, a photography exhibition aimed at highlighting the plight of the Rohingya and the issue of statelessness by acclaimed documentary photographer Greg Constantine.
The exhibition and opening reception will be held at DUMBO’s own powerHouse Arena.
Since Constantine started documenting the Rohingya in early 2006, he has been determined to create a sustained, comprehensive documentation that exposes the slow, strategic and tragic destruction of this community. While it is just one chapter of a 9-year project documenting stateless communities around the world, it is by far the most extreme situation of statelessness and human rights abuse he has ever encountered.
The Rohingya is a story of monumental proportion. At its core, Constantine’s work tries to highlight the dramatic impact and damage racism, discrimination, intolerance and exclusion has inflicted on the day-to-day lives of the Rohingya community while at the same time, trying to reveal this community’s sheer determination to find a way to survive year in and year out. It exposes the overarching power of the sovereign State to do what it may within with impunity within its own borders and it highlights the indifference and ineffectiveness of the international institutions created to monitor and enforce international obligations to human rights.
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Schedule
from May 12, 2015 to May 28, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-05-14 from 19:00 to 21:00