The prestigious Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host a 14-day exhibition by Rohingya refugees entitled ‘Hostile Environment: the lives of Rohingya” from 18 to 31 October, 2022, a press release said Monday.
The photo exhibition will display photos by 20 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and India.
The exhibition was inaugurated on 17 October, 2022. Caterina Carpinato, vice rector of the Third Mission, Susanna Regazzoni, coordinator of the Migrant Female Writers’ Archive, Professor Mara Matta of the La Sapienza University of Rome, and Professor Miriam De Rosa and Professor Francesco Della Puppa of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice spoke on the occasion.
The exhibition is curated by journalist and documentary maker Shafiur Rahman. He said “A refugee camp is not necessarily a place of refuge. There is no guarantee of safety or of rights.”
The exhibition was organized by the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, the Center for Studies on Human Rights (CESTUDIR), the Migrant Female Writers’ Archive, and CFZ exhibitions.
The Rohingya photographers are: Anonymous (Bhasan Char), Yassin Abdumonab, Zahangir Alam, Haider Ali, Salim Ullah Armany, Laila Begum, Sahat Zia Hero, Mohammed Hossain, Nur Hossain, Zonun Hubait, Mainul Islam, Abul Kalam, Mohamed Kasim, Mohammed Salim Khan, Ro Mehrooz, Abdul Monaf, Minara, Peter Saiful, Mohammmed Zobair and Mohammed Zonaid.
