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Image of 'Animal Magic' by Drew Bain
Animal Magic
Children love
animals and is the basis of this major children's exhibition exploring
ways artists have created images and how scientists explain animals
are the way they are. Accompanying programme of activities.
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'Earth Warrior' by Darey Nicholas
AKA - Contemporary Maori Arts
To
celebrate the revival of interest in and the importance of Maori
traditions, this exhibition includes carvers, fibre and multi-media
artists, landscape artists, sculptors and artists working in clay.
Heartstone
The
organisation Heartstone fosters contact and understanding
between young people of different nationalities. The exhibition
consists of a photographic display on various social issues and art
work of young people from around the Commonwealth focusing on issues
important to them.
India 50 - A Working People
Sebastiao Salgado's Portrait of People
An
exhibition of Sebastiao Salgado's epic, powerful photograhs of India opens at
Edinburgh's City Art Centre on Saturday 1 November 1997, marking the 50th
anniversary of Indian independence.
Sixty black and white photographs by the acclaimed photojournalist - the majority never before published - provide a sweeping and moving view of the lives of ordinary Indians. A woman hewing stone in a quarry, the dust-blackened faces of miners in Bihar and rush hour in Bombay's central train station are among the striking images.
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| After harvesting their crops on the Netharhat Plateau, this group of men are migrating to look for construction work on roads and dams, Bihar State. | Shanty town of Mahim, Bombay. A pipeline passes through, bringing drinking water to the rich parts of the city. | Workers emerging from a coal mine, Dhanbad coal mines, Bihar State. |
India 50 - A Working People represents Sebastiao Salgado's work in India over the past decade. It includes new work commissioned for this exhibition by Christian Aid of its work with indigenous people in Bihar, one of India's poorest states.
Fifty years on from independence, India 50 - A Working People documents the human cost of India's transformation into an economic power. The 560-mile Rajasthan Canal begun in 1958, is being dug by hand. Whole families are employed: mothers bring their babies and children, digging for 75 pence a day. In Bihar, Salgado shows the struggle of the adivasis (indigenous people) whose land is shrinking as open-cast mining expands across the state.
One of the world's foremost photojournalists, Sebastiao Salgado is known for the beauty of his images and for the respect with which he treats his subjects. India 50 - A Working People follows his massive project Workers and his more recent study of land and injustice in his native Brazil, shown in exhibitions all over the world. Terra, Struggle of the Landless opened in London to huge publicity last year.
This exhibition is being launched in Edinburgh and this is its only Scottish showing. It will tour the UK throughout 1997/98 with venues in Derby, London and Norwich. The exhibition is organised and sponsored by Christian Aid, with additional sponsorship from Granta, Leica and The Rough Guides, and from George Greenwood, Caroline Hobhouse, Jesse Norman and Ben Whitaker.
Based in Paris, Sebastiao Salgado is represented in the UK by Network Photographers. Recent work includes Workers: An Archeology of the Industrial Age (Phaidon Press, 1993) and Terra: Struggle of the Landless (Phaidon Press, 1997).
Christian Aid, which has worked in India for 40 years, is the official agency of 40 British and Irish churches. It works where the need is greatest, regardless of race or religious beliefs, in more than 60 countries. In India, Christian Aid supports 95 local organisations, ranging from village woman's groups and rural development programmes to campaigns against child labour.
Press photographs by Sebastiao Salgado are available on request. Contact Jane Warrilow, Assistant Keeper, at the City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh. Tel: 0131 529 3958 - Fax: 0131 529 3977.