London Korean Links

Covering things Korean in London and beyond since 2006

“Disposable People”: Comfort Women photos at the Festival Hall

Overlapping nicely with the photographic exhibition at the KCC (Poverty seen through the Lens) is Disposable People, an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall on a related theme: modern day slavery.

Magnum photographer Chris Steele Perkins spent some time talking with some of the last surviving sex slaves from the Pacific War – the Korean Comfort Women. In a simple but moving series of images, he documents the stories of some of the women he met, setting them alongside plain full frontal facial portraits. The images and stories are left to speak for themselves.

The exhibition runs till 9 November, and will tour the UK in 2009, first stop being Plymouth.

Links:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.