Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
The Lives of People in Darfur, Early to Mid 1980s.
Exhibition by Photographer, Bob Wilkinson
Coventry, UK, October 2023
Above, one of Bob Wilkinson’s stunning Darfur photographs exhibited this month at LTB Showrooms, Litten Tree Showrooms Map, Coventry.This photograph and others below are copyright Bob Wilkinson and are reproduced here with his kind permission.
At this time of great tragedy for Sudan we are inundated with images of war and destruction. Bob Wilkinson’s exhibition is a poignant, timely celebration of another Sudan in all its self-sufficiency, dignity – and hardship. In an era before internet or social media, Wilkinson’s compassionate gaze pays homage to the people he knew and worked with in Darfur and provides an essential counterpoint to the one-dimensional “begging bowl” tropes prevalent in the West at the time.
Read more in this Coventry Telegraph interview with Bob:
Unseen pieces of history to be showcased in Coventry this weekend
Above, Bob Wilkinson’s introductory text to the exhibition.
Bob has kindly agreed to talk more about his exhibition and his work later this month, so stay tuned!
Above, just one of several imposing large scale projections exhibited.
Below, young Darfuri women drawing water from a well with skin buckets, photograph, copyright, Bob Wilkinson.
Below, a Darfuri man with his sonki for tapping gum arabic bearing acacia trees, copyright Bob Wilkinson.
See “Melted Amber”; Gum Arabic in Sudan
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