Realism in Rawiya @ Impressions Gallery

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Realism in Rawiya @ Impressions Gallery

January 31st, 2015 by fstop

Untitled, from Women of Gaza, 2009 © Tanya Habjouqa

Realism in Rawiya: Photographic Stories from the Middle East
18 February to 16 May 2015

Rawiya, which translates from Arabic to mean ‘she who tells a story’, is made up of artists who established their individual careers as photojournalists by working for news agencies and publications across the Arab world. By living and reporting in the region, they gained an insider’s view of the extremities of these settings, whilst also observing how their reportage could become reframed in the international media’s final edit of events.

Realism in Rawiya is rich with untold stories, from a Palestinian all-female auto racing team and transsexuals in Jerusalem, to cluster bomb survivors trying to rebuild their lives, Iranian mothers of martyrs who visit their son’s grave twice a week and parents in Lebanon who continue to wait for the 17,000 missing to come home.

Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1SD

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