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| PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION | Life and Nothing Else – 21st February to 13th March, 2007

Time : 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Exhibition Info : In December 2004, the photography exhibition “Trotz Alledem – Alltag in Afghanistan (Despite It All – Daily Life in Afghanistan) was shown in Kabul. The exhibition, developed in conjunction with a workshop for artistic photography, was sponsored by the Goethe Institute Kabul in cooperation with the photography department of Aïna and headed by the German photographer Wolfgang Bellwinkel. The workshop was conceived as a further education venture organized by a group of Afghan photographers in an effort to document present-day changes in their country from an insider’s perspective.
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Commenting on the results of the workshop, Wolfgang Bellwinkel wrote: “The participants were asked to exploit their ‘native advantage’ and search for themes that expressed something about their country, their society, and their culture. They were expected to realize a project that offered insights and didn’t reproduce clichés. Considering their possibilities, I feel they succeeded in doing that. We see photographs that follow, in part, a documentary-journalistic tradition but also embrace artistic-conceptual working methods, and these give us surprising insights into certain courses of events in Afghan society. We see women walking self-confidently alongside their husbands; melancholy young men whose sad stares reflect nothing of the heroically posed mujaheddin; and living rooms of every social class, which not only speak of the conventions and dreams of an Islamic society, but go beyond that and show us a multifaceted society…”
(Translated from the German by Karl Johnson)
Aina
Goethe-Institut Kabul
Wolfgang Bellwinkel
Place : Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
Tel: +91 11 23329506
Email : info@delhi.goethe.org
Website : www.goethe.de/newdelhi