Artist Talk: Ed Kashi & Mariusz Śmiejek

About The Event

As part of our two new exhibitions, No Surrender: The Protestants by Ed Kashi and Not Surrendering by Mariusz Smiejek, and to celebrate the launch of Mariusz's book 'Not Surrendering', we invite you to join us at Belfast Exposed for an Artist talk with both Ed Kashi & Mariusz Śmiejek, facilitated by Malachi O'Doherty.

The Artist Talk event takes place at 6:00pm, Thursday 19th October in Belfast Exposed.

Tickets: Book your free ticket here

Ed and Mariusz's work is an intimate look at the PUL communities in Northern Ireland. The two exhibitions showcasing photographs from their respective books will be exhibited at Belfast Exposed from 5th-28th October.

About the Artists

Website: www.edkashi.com

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist and filmmaker dedicated to documenting the social and geopolitical issues that define our times. In addition to photography and filmmaking, Kashi is an educator and leading voice in photojournalism, documentary photography and visual storytelling. He has received numerous awards, including Pictures of the Year International Multimedia Photographer of the Year 2015, UNICEF’s Photo of the Year 2010, a Prix Pictet 2010 Commission and honors from World Press Photo, Communication Arts and American Photography. Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide and his personal projects and editorial assignments, including 17 feature stories for National Geographic magazine, have been published in twelve monographs. In 2002, with his wife, filmmaker Julie Winokur, they founded Talking Eyes Media; a non-profit production company dedicated to social and geopolitical issues. In 2014, they began an innovative project with Rutgers University-Newark called Newest Americans, a storytelling project focused on the issue of immigration, and in 2017 received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant to continue the project for two more years. His 12th book, Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography, was just named Photo Book of the Year by the International Photography Awards.

Website: www.mariuszsmiejek.com

Mariusz Śmiejek is an independent visual storyteller specialising in the raw narrative of human and social conditions. His documentary work in Europe and Africa explores post-conflict communities, refugee and asylum seekers, child slavery, street children, human trafficking, victimised women, dangerous livelihoods, corruption and systemic abuse.