Sheffield Museums – Evening Talk: “Hidden” – HMD 2025
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Sheffield Museums
Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1095132353349/
Address:
Millennium Gallery
48 Arundel Gate
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2PP
United Kingdom
Tue 21 Jan, 6 – 7pm (doors at 5.30pm)
Millennium Gallery
Suggested donation £5, booking recommended
In this special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Charles Fox will share his current project Hidden, exploring one family’s photography and journey during the Cambodian genocide. He will be joined by artist Dayanny So and Dr Mark Rawlinson from the University of Nottingham to discuss the absence of photography and shifting political powers of visualisation during the Khmer Rouge, and how we might represent the unseen.
Hidden is a result of a long-term dialog between photographer and researcher Charles Fox with one Cambodian family. The project and resulting book explore the journey that the family made through the Khmer Rouge (1975 – 1979) landscape carrying over 90 family photographs, concealed for safety. As part of the work, the family recreated their journey and wrote about their experiences during the Khmer Rouge. This writing forms a major part of the book, alongside concealed elements of the p
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