Refugee Hotel: A talk by photojournalist, Gabriele StabileRefugee Hotel: A talk by photojournalist, Gabriele Stabilehttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/226381KINSC Sharpless Auditorium2013-03-06T16:30:002013-03-06T17:30:00
March 6, 4:30PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Gabriele Stabile is an Italian photographer based in New York City. His photography has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Description
The Refugee Hotel is a groundbreaking collection of photography and interviews that documents the arrival of refugees in the United States. A lavishly designed book published by Voice of Witness, its stunning images are coupled with moving testimonies from people describing their first days in the U.S., the lives they’ve left behind, and the new communities they’ve since created.
Among the narrators: PSAW WAH BAW, who was forced to flee her village in Burma amidst armed conflict. She describes how her family left their village with just five cups of rice, beginning an arduous journey toward resettlement that would take them through Bangkok, Tokyo, Illinois, and Texas.
PASTOR NOEL, who fled the civil war in Burundi in 1972 for a refugee camp in Congo. When war erupted in Congo in 1996, Noel was once again forced from his home. He now lives in Mobile, Alabama, and is a central figure in the African refugee community.
FELIX, a South Sudanese man who joined the rebel army as a teenager but eventually fled to a refugee camp in Kenya. Felix now lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he works with Habitat for Humanity to assist African refugees in purchasing their own homes.
Presented by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and Peace, Justice and Human Rights.
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