Saturday, 19 November
Time 19:00
Independence 70-72 Lodge Fisherman in the brown Snail Saligaros, Ioannina, greece
Ali, Hanan, Ahmad, Tony, Musab, Kawa, Muhammad Ali, Mahmoud and Ahmed are among thousands of people who, after the agreement between the EU and Turkey, it is stuck in Greece for more than 6 months waiting for the opportunity to start a new life in Europe.
Currently living in the refugee camp in the Goat which they had the opportunity to participate in a photography workshop from where and send us the postcard, revealing the daily life in the camp.
Sometimes touching, emotional, sad, sometimes optimistic, sometimes even comical, these photos are a way to mitigate the dramatic nature of the exile and to occur with a prescribed dose of sarcasm, the weight of the migration journey in a friendly context that is usually found in happy holidays.
This double narrative allows refugees and immigrants, to leave behind, even temporarily, their suffering, and to reveal their experiences in the world.
Through these postcards, the participants re-create a visual memory of the trip that they consider to be the trip of a lifetime. In a sensitive socio-political context for the immigrant, the “wish we were not here” postcards, as every letter the mail, allow people to make the first step in the direction of the “other”.
The idea of the interactive photography project launched in November 2015 by the initiative of the organization Jungleye, with the head of the photographer Severine Sajous and the architect Julie Brown, the camp refugees and migrants in Calais, France, known as “the jungle”. In June 2016, the organization Jungleye (the eye of the jungle) “emigrated” from Calais in the refugee camp of Κάτσικα in Ioannina, greece, and organized, with the cooperation of Doctors Without Borders is a workshop pictures that lasted three weeks.
The Jungleye is an organization that operates to give a voice to immigrants and refugees, in order to deposit their daily reality and destiny-give their feelings, thanks to the photo. Through interactive workshops, the immigrants and the refugees, with some days in the hands, day by day, share their fears, happiness, sadness, anger and their hopes. So, a picture means a thousand words and a lot of postcards help to raise awareness of the international community on issues of post-νάστευσης.
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiere/MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that provides medical care to people excluded from various fields-legal care to victims of violence, natural disasters or in-arms conflict. It acts solely on the basis of the medical needs, regardless of racial, religious or political criteria with the aim of alleviating human suffering, but also the public awareness for the humanitarian crises that wreak havoc on the planet.
The exhibition “postcards from the Κάτσικα – Wish we were not here” is organized by the organization Jungleye Photometria International Photography Festival with the support of Doctors Without Borders and action Photo Europe Days of the European network Photo Europe Network (PHEN).
“Postcards from the Κάτσικα – Wish we were not here”
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