Exhibition STARAMASCE Salento Negroamaro
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STARAMASCE' - TEMPORARY WORK FOR AFGHANS
Kidnapped and held hostage in Helmand by a still-unidentified group last October, London-based Italian photojournalist Gabriele ‘Kash’ Torsello returns to the public arena with an outstanding exhibition of images from Afghanistan.
Being launched at the Foreign Press Association in London on Tuesday 12 June, the exhibition-talk will illustrate Kash ongoing ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’.
A project focused on the implementation of UNDERSTANDING within Cultures, which explores the structure for an open-ended Dialogue on collaboration & peace.
Over the years ‘Kash’ has compassionately chronicled the life of Kashmiris and Afghans -- their pain, their hopes and their vibrancy -- bringing their plight to the notice of the world. During this time he has made his own personal journey, embracing the Cultures and accepting Islam.
He was rewarded in November 2006 by his fellow international journalists with the FPA’s Premier Award, the ‘Dialogue of Cultures’. Speaking at the ceremony award, Kash said: “Kidnapping was a traumatic experience which left me with no ambition to continue my work. The FPA Award triggered an emotional renaissance which has inspired me to renew my efforts”.
This exhibition takes its name from the Afghan greeting STARAMASCE. It shows life across Afghanistan, capturing the glances, gestures and emotions with which we can all empathize but from a world and a people seemingly not of our own. The exhibition starts a wider process for ‘Kash’ of helping Europeans bridge the cultural divide and to enter an ‘Understanding’ process with a people who lead extraordinary lives as they determinedly struggle to rebuild a United Country for themselves and their generations which leads to peace and prosperity in South-Asia and around.
The full exhibition star thirty enormous 20 sq ft photographs which will be hung in public squares in Lecce, Italy throughout the summer during the Salento Negroamaro Cultural Festival.
“The Afghani people are not a war-like people, they have been repeatedly violated by conflict from the outside, conflict fuelled by an absence of dialogue and understanding. I am trying in every way I can to build the bridges they require for us to value the common humanity we share with them. The aim of this project is to put together Afghans thoughts from the East to West with no exclusions and no prejudices. ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’ will be an open book on Afghanistan written and illustrated by Afghans and representatives from all Parties & Countries involved in the current status of Afghanistan, insha Allah.”
Photographs being exhibited at the FPA will be auctioned online (www.foreign-press.org.uk) to help raise funds to help ‘Kash’ in pushing forward his ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’ project.
Kidnapped and held hostage in Helmand by a still-unidentified group last October, London-based Italian photojournalist Gabriele ‘Kash’ Torsello returns to the public arena with an outstanding exhibition of images from Afghanistan.
Being launched at the Foreign Press Association in London on Tuesday 12 June, the exhibition-talk will illustrate Kash ongoing ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’.
A project focused on the implementation of UNDERSTANDING within Cultures, which explores the structure for an open-ended Dialogue on collaboration & peace.
Over the years ‘Kash’ has compassionately chronicled the life of Kashmiris and Afghans -- their pain, their hopes and their vibrancy -- bringing their plight to the notice of the world. During this time he has made his own personal journey, embracing the Cultures and accepting Islam.
He was rewarded in November 2006 by his fellow international journalists with the FPA’s Premier Award, the ‘Dialogue of Cultures’. Speaking at the ceremony award, Kash said: “Kidnapping was a traumatic experience which left me with no ambition to continue my work. The FPA Award triggered an emotional renaissance which has inspired me to renew my efforts”.
This exhibition takes its name from the Afghan greeting STARAMASCE. It shows life across Afghanistan, capturing the glances, gestures and emotions with which we can all empathize but from a world and a people seemingly not of our own. The exhibition starts a wider process for ‘Kash’ of helping Europeans bridge the cultural divide and to enter an ‘Understanding’ process with a people who lead extraordinary lives as they determinedly struggle to rebuild a United Country for themselves and their generations which leads to peace and prosperity in South-Asia and around.
The full exhibition star thirty enormous 20 sq ft photographs which will be hung in public squares in Lecce, Italy throughout the summer during the Salento Negroamaro Cultural Festival.
“The Afghani people are not a war-like people, they have been repeatedly violated by conflict from the outside, conflict fuelled by an absence of dialogue and understanding. I am trying in every way I can to build the bridges they require for us to value the common humanity we share with them. The aim of this project is to put together Afghans thoughts from the East to West with no exclusions and no prejudices. ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’ will be an open book on Afghanistan written and illustrated by Afghans and representatives from all Parties & Countries involved in the current status of Afghanistan, insha Allah.”
Photographs being exhibited at the FPA will be auctioned online (www.foreign-press.org.uk) to help raise funds to help ‘Kash’ in pushing forward his ‘Temporary Work for Afghans’ project.
