Discussion: Disposable People - Contemporary Global Slavery

This event will look at the issues raised by the exhibition which takes an in-depth look at the prevalance of slavery today through the lenses of eight Magnum photographers. Supported by Christian Aid. Free - all welcome.

Speakers: Mark Sealy, Exhibition Curator Autograph ABP; Jeff Williams, Head of Christian Aid in Wales
Please call Cath Sherrell on 01970 622888 for further information, email: cxs@aber.ac.uk

The exhibition brings together eight projects by leading photojournalists which expose the unpleasant underbelly of a consumer driven world.

Included are: Abbas, documenting child labour in Bangladesh; Ian Berry, examining the effects of international trade rules on farmers in Ghana; Stuart Franklin exploring chattel slavery in Sudan; Jim Goldberg, documenting the trafficking of young people from Eastern Europe; Susan Meiselas, investigating the conditions of Indonesian women working in Singapore as domestic servants; Paolo Pellegrin documenting Haitian ‘Restaveks’ (child slaves); Chris Steele- Perkins, documenting South Korean women who were held as sex slaves by the Japanese in WorldWar II and are still seeking restitution; Alex Webb, photographing Haitian cane workers held in organised bonded labour in the Dominican Republic.