“When Does A Place Become Home?” Exhibition

“When Does A Place Become Home?” Exhibition

St. Ann's Warehouse

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United Photo Industries is proud to partner with our friends at St. Ann’s Warehouse and Good Chance Theatre in creating an exhibition space for audience members of THE JUNGLE and the general public, featuring the photographs of six internationally acclaimed photographers currently working on the frontlines of the world’s migrant crisis, from the original Calais Jungle to Serbia to the US Southern Borders: Miguel Amortegui, Sarah Hickson, Omar Imam, John Moore, Abdul Saboor and Griselda San Martin, plus artwork from the Good Chance Dome and The Nation.

The number of displaced persons in the world has reached its highest level in modern history, driven by endless cycles of conflict, crushing poverty, and indiscriminate violence. These visual stories are a hard look at the complexities of immigration and migration, capturing the experiences of people worldwide embarking on perilous journeys to find safety in new homes or temporary stops along the way.

For a decade, John Moore has been documenting immigration along the US-Mexico border, while Griselda San Martin has focused on families torn apart by the border fence where relatives travel long and far to lay eyes on their loved ones for a few precious moments. Miguel Amortegui and Sarah Hickson explore life, hope, and creation amidst the squalor and danger of the Jungle. The migrant encampment near Calais, France was notorious both for its human rights abuses by the French police as well as the thriving, if temporary, community created by the 6,400 migrants that once called it “home”.

Abdul Saboor and Omar Imam are refugees themselves, having been forced to leave their homelands. Here they share stories of their countrymen in exile, through the reenactment of their innermost dreams and fears, as in the case of Omar’s surrealist portraits. Abdul documents the small moments in the days without end of Afghan refugees trapped in Serbia as they live, wait, and dream of reaching the European Union just beyond the border.

Each photograph in this exhibition translates headlines and faceless statistics into living, breathing people with dreams and aspirations no different than those we have for ourselves and for our children.

Media

• Photography
• Installation

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