Event overview
Goldsmiths Anthropology presents: Graphic Violence: Representing Conflict and Migration through Narrative, Photography and Comics.
A talk by Benjamin Dix.
Benjamin Dix is a professional photographer and has worked as a Communications Manager for the UN and NGOs across Asia and Africa for the past 12 years. He was based in Vanni, Sri Lanka with the UN from 2004 until the UN evacuation in 2008. He has contributed as a photographer to published ethnographic work such as ‘The Sari’ (2008) by Danny Miller and Mukulika Banerjee and he is currently writing his Doctorate in Anthropology, ‘Artistic Representation of Violence’ at Sussex.
In 2012 Benjamin founded PositiveNegatives to use multimedia and traditional forms of art to represent global conflict, humanitarian and migration issues to a wide and diverse audience. PositiveNegatives, working with artist and illustrator Lindsay Pollock, is building a portfolio of projects including The Vanni, a graphic novel built on testimonies of Tamil survivors from the Sri Lankan conflict who are now asylum seekers in the UK (http://www.thevanni.co.uk )
PositiveNegatives has recently produced a series of short illustrated stories 'Meet the Somalis' focusing on the Somali community in Europe for the Open Society Foundation – (http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org ).The project has recently been launched on the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24869363) and all 14 stories are available on the Open Society Foundation SF website to download as a PDF book (http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/multimedia/meet-the-somalis)
Positive Negatives’ next project will follow a Syrian family from Syria to Europe in 2014.
Thursday 21st November in Richard Hoggart Building room 309 from 6-8pm
Please contact Dr Martin Webb and Dr Gavin Weston for further details
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Nov 2013 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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