Stories of political and religious intolerance aren’t found only in history. Persecution, sometimes on a devastating scale, continues in our own lifetime.
This new exhibition at Lyveden features three stories of religious persecution, each told through a Magnum photographer’s lens How do they help us understand what it means to stand up for your faith and beliefs at any cost? What do these stories tell us about the place of faith and tolerance in the world today?
The exhibition features: Coptic Christians in Egypt by Abbas, Yazidis in Iraq by Moises Saman, and the Rohingya in Myanmar by Chien-Chi Chang.
‘In Our Lifetime’ a Magnum Photos Exhibition
1 March – 22 April, 2019
Lyveden Manor House, Lyveden New Bield
Lyveden, PE8 5AT, United Kingdom
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lyveden/features/in-our-lifetime-a-magnum-photos-exhibition
Moises Saman SYRIA. Derek. August 10, 2014. Displaced Yazidi men from Sinjar at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Derek, a Kurdish-controlled town in Syria, shortly after arriving on foot from the mountains where they sought refugee after fleeing their homes as ISIS militants moved into their area. The only way for this families to reach the safety of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is through a safe corridor in Syria that is controlled by Syrian-Kurdish militias.
A. Abbas Shadow of the church of the Apostles. St Antony Monastery. Egypt. 1997. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
A. Abbas Egypt, “a gift of the Nile”, according to Herodote. Its waters flood a field where a Copt fellah (peasant) has planted maize. His village can be seen on the cliff. Deir El-Adra. Egypt. 1997. © A. Abbas | Magnum Photos
