Berni Gallery exhibition and festival launch
Human Rights Festival exhibition
Monday 15 June to Saturday 27 June
Exhibition preview: Monday 15 June 5.30pm to 7pm
Free admission

The exhibition will consist of pictures from the Battlespace project
and from Richard Wainwright’s recent assignment in Mongolia.

"Battlespace"

Battlespace presents an unsanitised view of the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to a public that has been shielded from disturbing or nuanced images of war. Battlespace questions the perceptions, agendas, and narratives of the military and the media and attempts to offer an unfiltered account from a group of photographers who saw it firsthand.

www.battlespaceonline.org
(Multimedia courtesy of daylightmagazine.org)

Mongolia images: Surviving the winter by Richard Wainwright
Under the streets of Ulaan Baatar, the coldest capital city in the world, many children struggle to survive the bitter winter. Munkhbat & Altangeret are both 15 and have lived in a manhole together for over 3 years. A tough, lonely existence, violence from drunken adults and other street children is ever present and their daily preoccupations are food and warmth. Forced into this situation by divorced and deceased parents, they still hope and strive for a better future.

www.richwainwright.com