“A Window to Life”, a street art photo exhibition
Hi, I am Veronica, an activist and art curator developing this impactful and powerful collaborative exhibition with Rohingya photographers called “A Window to Life”. To make this happen, we need your help!
Maybe you will ask yourself, what is Rohingya? Rohingya is a minority ethnicity that has long faced violence, discrimination, and genocide. Right now, over a million Rohingya people are living as refugees in camps around Bangladesh and nearby regions. Specifically, in the Cox’s Bazar district, which hosts one of the largest refugee camps in the world. There is where the work of these photographers comes to life, as Rohingyas but also as refugees. With the photovoice method, a community-based participatory research that gathers participant-taken photographs and narratives, this method helps us to translate their own refugee experiences into actionable knowledge.
This is the starting point of our artistic journey! Meet the team:
Veronica is a non-traditional museologist, curating and leading this project. And these are our photographers:
Following the order, up left to right: Mohammed Salim Khan, Mohammad Zubair, Minara, Zonun Hubait, Maniul Islam.
Following the order, down left to right: Ro Mo Sur Ali, Zahangir Alam, Mohammed Zonaid, Mohammed Sawzeth, and Md Saidul Hoque.
We would like to create this as a street art exhibition in Brick Lane, London. Street art can be seen as a form of protest that challenges society and the urban landscape. It is designed to be accessible, sitting in public spaces with people engaging directly. This is the perfect format to do a direct call of action for the work and situation of the Rohingya people, with photographic work that finally will be seen, making possible the representation of the rest of the refugees worldwide.
We will not dramatize the refugee experience. Instead, we will shift those images that most of the time the media shows us, we will offer a different and personal perspective experience, challenge the new problematic UK government’s asylum and immigration bills, and show the person itself before the socio-political label that is the word refugee. And there is no better moment to do this than Refugee Week 2023!!
We aim to install the exhibition on the weekend of the 17th or 18th of June. Everyone is more than welcome to come and paste the posters altogether, have a talk through the photographs and the work that these photographers and their colleagues do at the camp, take photographs and videos, etc. Follow us on Instagram to be up to date and be part of this participative event. Also, find more free additional and educational material related to this exhibition on The Activist Curator’s Instagram where you can learn more in-depth about this exhibition and what surrounds it.
For all this, we are aiming to raise £1,500!! This funding will be able to cover:
The production (printing of the photo posters, design, and materials) and marketing costs = £500
The rest will be donated to the photographers, their families, and their communities = £1000.
The more we get, the better! So we will be able to donate more but also to create more additional material related to the exhibition, building its legacy.
Every donation is greatly appreciated. If you are unable to donate, no worries! A simple share of our fundraiser on your social media platforms and spreading the word will help us a lot!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and we hope to see you in the streets!