Event
Seamus Murphy "Shame Every Rose: Images of Afghanistan" Photo Exhibit in Chicago
Event Date:
June 19, 2013 - August 24, 2013 | 11:00 AM EDT
Project
Afghanistan: On Love and Suicide
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self...
From June 19 - August 24, the Poetry Foundation presents a collection of Seamus Murphy's photographs from Afghanistan in association with the June issue of Poetry magazine devoted to landay, an ancient Afghan poetry form adapting to tell the story of modern life and conflict. The exhibit in Chicago, "Shame Every Rose: Images of Afghanistan," includes images from Murphy's Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project with journalist/poet Eliza Griswold, "Afghanistan: On Love and Suicide".
Murphy uses his lens to depict the lives of Afghan women by providing narrative photographs to their landays, a form of poetry that remains unique to Afghani culture and specific to women poets. The exhibit also will include photographs taken by Murphy in Afghanistan between November 1994 and December 2012.
The Poetry Foundation is "an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture." Founded in 1912 in Chicago by Harriet Monroe, the Poetry Foundation strives to broadcast the best poetry of all nature to a wide and receptive audience.
June 19 - August 24
Monday - Friday, 11 am to 4 pm
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street,
Chicago, IL 60654
Free.
For more information: read the Poetry Foundation Press Release on the exhibit.
