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Wolf Böwig: girls coming back from school- Kabul / Afghanistan
© Wolf Böwig
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At a time when the flood of multimedia images from the crisis-ridden regions of the world often causes us to switch off, turn the page or look away, the photographer Wolf Böwig takes arms against the silence. His reports from African countries torn by civil war like Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone, as well as from Afghanistan, are animated by his courage to look at things close up. His authentic, quiet and concentrated photography possesses great narrative power. It reports the fundamental things of human life pain and hatred, joy and despair. And it testifies to the conviction that the last step of violence is the destruction of human dignity. 'War cannot easily handle faces, as a face is the opposite of distance,' writes Portuguese author Pedro Rosa Mendes, who has been accompanying Böwig in the war-torn regions of West Africa for years. He describes their joint project in the words, 'We are looking for flowers in a forest that has been set on fire.'
Artist(s)
Wolf Böwig
Duration of the exhibition
24.10. - 9.11.2008
Vernissage
23.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Do-Fr 16-20 h, Sa-So 14-18 h
Location
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Borsigstraße 9
10115 Berlin
T 0049 30 94888382
Public transport connections
U Rosenthaler Platz; U Oranienburger Tor