CHEKA KIDOGO DUBLIN

Event Details: Cheka Kidogo
Name:Cheka Kidogo
Description:Cheka Kidogo an exhibition by fashion photographer Rankin will be in Wolfe Tone Park (beside the Jervis Centre) from May to July 2009. Rankin travelled with Oxfam to a refugee camp in Eastern Congo and used his celebrity portraiture with entirely different subjects – the residents of Mugunga camp, home to 250,000 people displaced by Congo’s harrowing violence. Photographed against Rankin’s trademark white backdrop rather than in their everyday surroundings, those in the portraits boldly defy the war victim tag and shine out as real people with individuality, humour and warmth. The exhibition’s name Cheka Kidogo, meaning “laugh a little” in Swahili, celebrates the spirit of the Congolese people in the face of adversity, but was also the phrase that people called out to their friends being photographed. For more details visit www.oxfamireland.org/drc
Start Date:Friday, May 01, 2009 at N/A
End Date:Friday, July 31, 2009 at N/A
Category:Arts & Culture
Venue:Wolfe Tone Park
Venue Location:Wolfe Tone Park Beside the Jervis Center, Dublin 1 
Email:clare.quinlan@oxfamireland.org 
Web:http://www.oxfamireland.org/rankin/