Photographic Exhibition
Reminiscences of Terezin
From Czech Fortress to Jewish Ghetto, Russian Camp and Historic
City
Espaço Solar da Marquesa de Santos
- São Paulo - Brazil - from
May 6th to June 30th 2003
Everyone suffers in a war! The city of Terezin, in Czech Republic, is symbolic in this sense. It prisons held Czech, Jewish and German citizens - before, during and after World War II. Now, for the first time in Brazil, three photographers show the reflections on the suffering uniting those people in the exhibition Reminiscences of Terezin.
The Exhibition Reminiscences of Terezin - From Czech Fortress to Jewish Ghetto, Russian Camp and Historic City, will be on the ground floor of the Solar da Marquesa de Santos from May 6th to June 30th 2003. Reminiscences of Terezin is part of the official program of the 6th International Month of Photograph in São Paulo, Brazil, the most important photo event in Latin America.
The Exhibition is the fruit of photographers Vinicius Souza, Maria
Eugênia Sá and Christy Speakman's labor, who lived
among Eastern and Central European photographers in an old military
facility in Terezin (now a cultural center) in July and August
2001. The exhibition has, as its curator, the Czech photographer
Viktor Kolar, head of the documentary photograph chair of FAMU
(the most important film and video university of Czech Republic),
author of many books, exhibits and winner of several international
photo awards, such as the Mother Jones Institute for Documentary
Photograph.
The result of this photographic documentation is revealed in 21
Black and White photos presented at the Exhibition. Although they
had already been presented in Terezin, the pictures are still
unknown to the Brazilian public. Echoes of the pain of different
people who suffered throughout the prison, streets and facilities
of Terezin are subjectivly brought by the images. After all, these
are the same places where dissidents of the old Czechoslovak Monarchy,
Jewish people confined by Hitler's Nazi regimen, and German citizens
arrested by the Russian Army after the World War II had been.
"On war times, such as we're living now, it's imperative
to remember that absolutely nobody wins at an armed conflict.
It's necessary to look at the past and get lessons for the future
from it. In this sense, Terezin is symbolic. It's a demonstration
that only suffering unites different people in a war, and pain
reaches all."
Service
Exhibition: Reminiscences of Terezin - From Czech Fortress to Jewish Ghetto, Russian Camp and Historic City
When: From May 6th to June 30th, Tuesdays to Sundays, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Where: Solar
da Marquesa de Santos. R. Roberto Simonsen 136, São Paulo
Brazil. Phone 55 11 3241-4238 or 3105-0991
Free Admission
Producers: Media Quatro mediaquatro.sites.uol.com.br
For interviews:
Vinicius Souza mediaquatro.sites.uol.com.br/vinicius.html
and vgpsouza@uol.com.br
Maria Eugênia Sá mariaeugeniasa.sites.uol.com.br
and mge_sa@yahoo.com.br
Christy Speakman christylei@yahoo.com
Phones: (55 11) 5093-2855 or 9631-0666
Sponsor by
Labtec Laboratório Foto Digital
Photographers:
Vinicius Souza (mediaquatro.sites.uol.com.br/vinicius.html
e vgpsouza@uol.com.br)
Maria Eugênia Sá (mariaeugeniasa.sites.uol.com.br
e mge_sa@yahoo.com.br
)
Christy Speakman ( christylei@yahoo.com )
Contact: (55 11) 5093-2855 ou 9631-0666
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