An engaged, intimate, and thought-provoking series of images by young artists from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK) reflecting on human rights and exposing the strength, vulnerability and diversity of residents of The Hague.
Photography and human rights
Photography is a powerful tool that can spark resistance and mobilise people in the fight for justice. Lewis W. Hine’s photographs of children working in cotton mills were instrumental in bringing about the first child labour laws in the United States. It only took twenty-four hours for Boston to improve inspection and maintenance of fire escapes in the city after Boston Herald photographer Stanley Forman’s picture of a child and her godmother falling from a collapsing fire escape in 1975.
Visual images are instrumental in defining, explaining, promoting, and contesting human rights. In Iran images of unveiled Iranian women have become a signature of the protests against gender oppression in the past months. Photography and human rights share an aspiration to universality and to communicate across differences. At the same time, visualising human rights runs the risk of reproducing stereotypes, biases, and inequalities.
Human rights in The Hague
Human rights experts at the Asser Institute and photographers at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) joined forces to help students explore this close relationship between photography and human rights. Bachelor students in the course ‘Photographing Society’ were invited to portray a human rights issue in their own environment.
Works exhibited by KABK students:
Densley Annastatia - “No internationals”
Jade Kievits - #AMINI
Jamie Smith - You have the right to seek asylum in another country if you are persecuted in your own
Lisa van den Berg - One, two, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty- three, twenty- six
Pippa de Jong - Sleep tight
Simaa Alsaig - Guilty Diaspora
Tori McCrea - Get Some Rest
More on the virtual exhibition on @thehaguehumanityhub website: www.humanityhub.net/news/digi...
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