Joakim Eneroth
dal 27/7/2008 al 28/8/2008
Segnalato da
27/7/2008
Joakim Eneroth
Artandphotographs gallery, London
Testimony
When
released from a Chinese prison in 1992 after 33 years of captivity,
Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, decided to flee to India. After
his release, the Chinese authorities monitored his every step, and he
feared a new arrest. With the help of others, he was able to escape
over the Himalayas. With him he smuggled a bag of instruments that were
used to torture prisoners in order to show the world what was going on
behind the Chinese prison walls.
In 2005, Swedish photographer Joakim Eneroth traveled to Dharamsala, India, to meet
with Palden Gyatso. The resulting images bear cold testimony to the continuing practice
of torture not only in China, but throughout the world.
These photographs will be exhibited at artandphotographs, London, and published
as a book by Culture Art Technology, with an introduction by Amnesty International's
Deborah Long and an essay by writer Malin Rosen, who accompanied Eneroth on this
trip.
Joakim Eneroth was born 1969 in Sweden. He graduated from Nordens Fotoskola in
Biskops-Arnö
in 1999. He has since been honoured in the Swedish Picture Of The Year (portrait)
and won first prize in Prix Voies Off 2005 in Arles, France. In May 2007 his project
Seeing Reality Behind My Projections was selected by Alain Sayag for an exhibition
at the Guandong Museum of Modern Art in China. A book by Eneroth, Swedish Red,
published
by Steidl, will be released in August 2008.
Artandphotographs gallery
13 Mason's Yard - London