'42' Women of Sierra Leone
04 March 2011 - 03 June 2012
Copyright Lee Karen Stow (detail of photo)
An exhibition of 42 portraits of the women of Sierra Leone, by British photojournalist and writer Lee Karen Stow.
"When I turned 42 in 2008 life expectancy in Sierra Leone was around 42. I realised that I had double the chance of living a long and healthy life in the UK, where life expectancy for women is around 83. I became angry at what is a violation of human rights.
42 aims to show the beauty, spirit, hope and the value to society of women not just in Sierra Leone, but women everywhere, who wake each morning with the belief that one day, life really will get better." Lee Karen Stow
The exhibition includes photographs taken in summer 2010, which have not been shown before.
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Toxteth 1981
01 July 2011 - 01 July 2012
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Liverpool 8 Law Centre
A community exhibition to mark the 30th anniversary in July 2011 of the riots in Liverpool 8. It features the memories and photographs of the local people who were affected at the time, including a lot of previously unseen material.
The exhibition is a collaboration with the Merseyside Black History Month Group (MBHMG) and Writing on the Wall (WoW).
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White Gold: the true cost of cotton
16 September 2011 - 02 September 2012
Copyright Environmental Justice Foundation
This exhibition highlights the abuse of labour rights in the cotton industry, primarily in Uzbekistan, one of the largest cotton exporters in the world.
The Uzbekistan government forcibly conscripts hundreds of thousands of its citizens, including young children, to work in its billion dollar cotton industry. The Uzbek government is the main beneficiary of this forced labour, demanding high production quotas and retaining rigid control over the exports.
Every year many rural schools are closed and children, some as young as seven, are sent to help pick the annual cotton harvest. They then endure hard and hazardous working conditions and often face verbal and physical abuse.
This exhibition includes photographs of cotton workers in Uzbekistan, explores how the cotton supply chain works, how we as consumers are part of this chain and how we can make a difference.
Organised in partnership with the Environmental Justice Foundation.
