Beasts of Burden by Paul Seawright published by Strzelecki Books with text by Thomas Niemeyer.
“Beasts of Burden” adds a new strand to Paul Seawright’s existing work: portraiture. He enables the viewer to look directly into the eyes of people who have seen a great deal. And alongside them, he places animals which are unaware of the huge symbolic burden they bear.’ TN
“During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered an estimated one million people, mostly of the Tutsi minority in just 100 days.
Started by Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with shocking speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbours.
Untitled (Vertical Head) 110 x 82.5
25 years after the genocide a unique initiative pairs perpetrators with their
victims – where they raise a cow together, in an effort to reconcile and develop a sustainable future.” – Paul Seawright
Beasts of burden is available via Gallery of Photography Ireland
72pp Hardback book to accompany the exhibition published by Strzelecki Books Cologne and Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn April 21, 2021.
About the artist.
Paul Seawright is Professor of Photography and Executive Dean of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ulster. His photographic work is held in many museum collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Centre of Photography New York, Arts Councils of Ireland, England and N.Ireland, UK Government Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art Rome. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London to undertake a war art commission in Afghanistan and his photographs of battle-sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited in North America, Canada, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Korea, Japan and China. In 2003 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize. He is represented by the Kerlin Gallery Dublin.
Surveying the spectrum of photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Photography: A Critical Introduction is the first book to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their proper social and political contexts. While most histories of photography invariably focus on the works of the “great photographers,” this book is written especially to provide a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing and its personal and cultural significance through history.
Beasts of Burden by Paul Seawright
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