High Life Highland’s Coal Library is delighted to play host ‘Faces of Kabul’ exhibition, following its success at Fort William Library earlier in the summer.
The exhibition is a photodocumentary produced by Highlands based photojournalist and writer, Nick Sidle and opened at the Highland Library on 24th October, running through until 4th November.
The Highland exhibition is a smaller-scale satellite version following its full presentation at Eden Court in Inverness and Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum telling the human story of the people of Kabul and the surrounding areas of Afghanistan in the early months of 2002, shortly after the Taliban regime had fallen.
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It is a story of Afghanistan from a different perspective, with a reminder that beyond the politics and conflict, we must never forget the lives of ordinary people – the men, women, children – lives not that dissimilar from our own.
It is a moving story told through the power of images, and one which will take you into a world we have all seen through media coverage but will help you see it with new eyes.
Viewing Afghanistan from the relatively recent historical setting of 2002, provides a route to help us all explore, understand and empathise further with the same world today.
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John West, High Life Highland’s, Director of Culture and Learning said:
“We are delighted that this exhibition is now moving on from our library in Fort William to be hosted at Caol Library and for High Life Highland to play a small part in sharing this powerful exhibition, depicting the very human stories behind the headlines, and enabling it to reach more people than it already has.”