|immigrants| A show curated at Soho Photo Gallery
It was a great pleasure to co-curate immigrants with Ellen Jacob at Soho Photo Gallery. Thanks to all the dedicated, talented, and moving artists who participate in the exhibition and bring their vision to the concern of immigration, exile, and asylum.
As stated in the press release:
”Soho Photo Gallery is proud to present “immigrants,” an exhibition focused on the uprooted people who cross the world’s borders, driven by nearly infinite variations in human need and desire to leave behind a life they know in exchange for one they do not. The exhibition was curated by Ellen Jacob and Pierre-Yves Linot.
Thirteen artists have been brought together to explore stories from across the globe and across history. The images they have created tell of people on the move, some by choice and many not, some motivated simply by a desire for a better life, many driven by extreme violence and poverty: Syrians in refugee camps; Haitian immigrants; Yezidi women, former ISIS slaves, establishing new lives in Canada; people on the road north from Central America; immigrants living both legally and without status in the United States. In portraying this broad mosaic of people, places, times, motivations, and outcomes, the exhibition uniquely captures the shared narrative that binds these disparate experiences together.
In the beginning, there were no borders. We fanned out from southern Africa and populated the planet in waves of migration beginning some 120,000 years ago. It is not metaphorical to say we are all immigrants, it is actual. This is humanity’s shared history.”
Photographers: F.Emmanuel Bastien, Diana Bejarano, Sarah Corbin, Marc Hors, Ellen Jacob, Leslie Jean-Bart, Alain Licari, Pierre-Yves Linot, Jon Lowenstein, Cathy Wilson Ramin, Paul Stetzer, Peter Turnley, Francisco Uceda.
Below, some images from the curators’ and artists’ walkthrough. The exhibition will be up until October 19, 2019. More info at Soho Photo Gallery.
Curators’ talk: Pierre-Yves Linot and Ellen Jacob. Photo: ©Natalia L Rudychev
Diana Bejarano. Photo: ©Natalia L Rudychev
Leslie Jean-Bart. Photo: ©Natalia L Rudychev
Presenting Alain Licari’s work. Photo: ©Natalia L Rudychev
F. Emmanuel Bastien. Photo: ©Natalia L Rudychev
