Monday, June 13, 2011
Photographic Exhibition ‘Transit’ documents refugees around the world
Photographer Espen Rasmussen has spent six years documenting the lives of refugees from all over the world.
We here at STAR National saw this great piece of work making headlines just in time for Refugee Week and we thought you might appreciate these beautiful pictures.
Transit, a recently published book and an exhibition at The Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo contains a collection of powerful pictures of refugees, including Rohingya from Burma in Bangladesh, Somalis in Yemen and internally displaced people (IDP) in DR Congo and Georgia.
A short sequence at the end of the book comprises pictures of spaces in which the displaced sleep. There’s a mat on a bed of straw in the DR Congo, mattresses at a UNHCR reception area in Yemen and a room for asylum seekers in Norway.
The BBC is featuring this as part of its news in pictures: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-13726682
Posted by STAR team on 13/06/2011 at 02:17 PM
