Jim Goldberg ‘Open See’ exhibition
Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg documents the experiences of people who travel to Europe to start new lives at the Photographers' Gallery, London from October 16 - January 17, 2010.
According to Goldberg, the people he photographs have often left "violent, oppressive, poverty-stricken or AIDS ravaged communities, in search of stability and the promise of a better future. Originating from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, these ‘new Europeans’ have met violence and brutality as well as hope and liberation in their new homes."
Goldberg has used a range of media including Polaroids, video, written text, ephemera and large and medium format photographs to collect and capture the stories.
He also encouraged the people portrayed to tell their personal, intimate experiences by defacing and writing on the images after they were taken.
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Jim Goldberg ‘Open See’ exhibition (text) by Shelley Lee Jones is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK License.
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