Images of Resistance – Iraq and Beyond Photography Exhibition October 24, 2009
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You may be interested in this anti war photography exhibition which will be showing until Friday, October 30th.
Images of Resistance – Iraq and Beyond
Photography Exhibition
Matt Merrigan Hall UNITE 55 Middle Abbey Street Dublin 1 Mon-Thurs – 11am-4pm * Friday 11am-3pm Until October 30th
A collaboration of the work of many photographers including serving and former soldiers, the main purposes of this exhibition is to help raise consciousness and awareness in the public of the opposition to wars, the plight of the people in war torn countries, the real reasons behind wars, the effects of war and also to show the situations soldiers find themselves in. Many of the images come from war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
This photo documentary is regularly updated with images from conflict situations around the world and further showings are planned in countries that have any involvement in any wars or the arms industry. The exhibition tour will include many Irish locations so as to highlight the use of Shannon Airport by the US military and the manufacture of weapons components in north and south of Ireland. It will also inform Irish taxpayers in particular, how some of our taxes are being used and will raise questions about our so called military neutrality. Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Mayo, Derry and Belfast are some of the locations planned for the exhibition in 2010.
Donations are welcome to help fund the tour of this important and exceptional body of work.
Account No. 90747246 – sort code: 90-07-11
Bank of Ireland, Talbot Street, Dublin 1.
All the photographers go through risks in capturing some of the images and do it mainly out of their passion for photojournalism and generally at their own expenses. Any finance accrued through sales of prints etc, goes back into maintaining the exhibition, such as reframing/ reprinting where neccessary, general printing and carriage/ travel costs etc. This project is not for profit.
Image contributers to date are photographers, Zoriah Miller, Michael Gallagher, Geróid O’Loingsigh, Guy Smallman, Paula Geraghty, Paul Mattsson, serving and former soldiers (who wish to remain anonymous).
The work has been shown a number of times since 2005 and many thanks to those who have sponsored or assisted us so far: The Irish Anti War Movement * Staff at at UNITE Joe Higgins MEP * Senator David Norris * Cllr: Joan Collins People Against War * The Teacher’s Club anti war activists, June Kelly, Ciaran and Martin O’Sulllivan, individual donators and the public who attended our fundraisers.
Printing of the current batch of images on show was by Photolabs of Portabello, Dublin.
A selection of images from the exhibition (including photo essays etc of workers issues) can be seen @ http://www.myspace.com/libertypix
Contact me if you would like this exhibition to be shown in your location or for any enquiries: Michael Gallagher (photographer and co-ordinator of the project) 00353 (0) 86 4048249 libertypics@yahoo.ie.
How was the show. It looks thought provoking, I wish I could have attended. I teach English and photography at a university in Iraqi Kurdistan and I would have been interested to see if the photos are similar/different to my experiences in the country.
That sounds like a very interesting job you’ve got there. Aren’t some of the images from the Images of Resistance exhibition up on the web?
Mr De Bruyn’s stuff is