Austrian Cultural Forum London (Web)
Exhibition continues from 14 June until Friday 2 September 2011
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ
This exhibition is a photographic display by Dr. Bea Lewkowicz of 25 refugees from Austria who settled in the UK, among them the violinist Nobert Brainin, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, the dance teacher Stella Mann, and the composer Joseph Horovitz.
All 25 interviewees featured in this exhibition have taken part in the Continental Britons and Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Refugee Voices audio-visual history projects and have given their testimony within the last 10 years. The portraits memorialise these interviews, as they are photographs of the interviewees, seen through the viewfinder of the video camera. The images are complemented by short messages and thoughts expressed in the interview. These touch on general themes of tolerance, refugees, history, humanity, and identity. Accompanying the photographic exhibition will be a film, which follows the lives of the 25 men and women depicted in the portraits and explores their Double Exposure to the cultures of Austria and Britain.