LSE Arts public exhibition
Dates: Monday 13 April - Friday 8 May 2015
Time: 10am-8pm, Mon-Fri
Venue: Atrium Gallery, Old Building
NB: The exhibition will be closed from 4pm on Friday 8 May 2015.
The photo exhibition portrays the everyday lives of people in Burma’s conflict-ridden Kachin State. Its particular focus rests on areas under control of ethnic rebel groups. While most international media attention is drawn to the sea changes in central Burma, these places of ongoing conflict are often ignored. This is not least due to difficulties of access to an area that is off-limits for international journalists and aid organisations. The exhibition, hence, offers rare insights into the present-day struggle of Burma's ethnic minorities, including displaced communities and insurgents. It also sheds light on rampant extractive border economies, which fuel protracted armed conflict and infringe on local livelihoods. By doing so it asks whether and how the country’s wider transition affects the everyday reality in the country’s borderlands.
The photographs were taken by two local photojournalists and a doctoral candidate from the LSE. Hkun Li and Hkun Lat are two brothers from Kachin State. They use photography to portray the re-escalation of civil war that has unsettled their youth. David Brenner uses photography to communicate his research on the conflict.
This exhibition is generously supported by the International Relations Department at the LSE.
This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. Visitors are welcome during weekdays (Monday - Friday) between 10am and 8pm (excluding bank holidays and when the school is closed for Christmas and Easter ). For further information email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone on 020 7107 5342.
Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School - from weekly free music concerts in the Shaw Library, and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own professional conductors, various film, art and photographic student societies, the annual LSE photo prize competition, the LSE Literary Festival and artist-in-residence projects. For more information please view the LSE Arts| website.
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