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Giulio Piscitelli - Kabul, Afghanistan. Haki Mullaha, 10, wounded by an old bullet that exploded at being thrown in a fire.
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Giulio Piscitelli - Kabul, Afghanistan. Treatment of a patient left wounded by the explosion of a car bomb.
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Vincenzo Metodo - a girl visits the exposition in Milan.
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Exhibition
Zakhem | Wounds: When War Comes Home
5 Nov 2019 – 10 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Tue, 05 Nov
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Wed, 06 Nov
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Thu, 07 Nov
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Fri, 08 Nov
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Sat, 09 Nov
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Sun, 10 Nov
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Old Truman Brewery
- 26 Hanbury Street
- London
England - E1 6QR
- United Kingdom
A Photographic Exhibition by Giulio Piscitelli, inspired by his visits to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centres in Afghanistan.
About
In 2018, photographer Giulio Piscitelli visited EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centres in Kabul and Lashkar-Gah, Afghanistan.
There he met war victims who continue to face public indifference after 18 years of conflict and vowed to tell their stories: stories where violence punctures daily life without warning, stories that reveal the wounds – zakhem in Dari – left by the conflict.
Shell and shrapnel wounds take centre stage in the exhibition because ultimately, war begins with them, but deeper wounds are also revealed here – like the fear and exasperation that never leave those living in the midst of violence.
Piscitelli’s photos show the Afghan people’s enduring strength and transport you into a world that is illuminated, almost unreal – a world outside time and space. The true nature of war is that it is everywhere and never-ending and Piscitelli's work has made these wounds comprehensible, simple, powerful and eloquent.