Collection
- Photography and the Congolese Diaspora
- VOICES: Narratives by Survivors of Modern Slavery
- Decomposing the Colonial Gaze
Theme
Country
- United Kingdom
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Bolivia
- India (slavery location)
- Libya (slavery location) 5 More
Date
- 2016-2019
- 2002 (Narrative date)
- 2009 (Narrative date)
- 2011 (Narrative date)
- 2016 (Narrative Date)
- 2017 (Narrative date)
- 2018
- 2018-2019
- 2019
Location
Type
Ko Wunna
Foreign workers constitute more than 20 percent of the Malaysian workforce and typically migrate voluntarily—often illegally—to Malaysia from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries, mostly in pursuit of better economic opportunities. Some…
Kings
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
P.O.T
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
The Bash
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
Bercy Salon
Letitia Kamaye: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
Decolonising the Colonial Gaze
Decolonising the Colonial Gaze
This collection documents the work of a community-based partnership between the Antislavery Usable Past project and Yole!Africa in Goma and Lubumbashi. The project is based on an archive of photography produced by the British missionary Alice Seeley Harris during…
Bouquet
Libya exists as the main transit point for refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. 150 000 men, women and children make the dangerous crossing across the Mediterranean Sea each year, with 3000 dying while attempting the journey. With authorities trying to regulate this migration, it is…
Jesmin
The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates that on any given day there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. The GSI 2018 reports an emerging trend in northeast India where organised trafficking syndicates operate along the open and unmanned international borders, duping or…
Bukola Oriola (Narrative 2)
There are an estimated 403,000 people living in conditions of modern slavery in the United States (GSI 2018). The US attracts migrants and refugees who are particularly at risk of vulnerability to human trafficking. Trafficking victims often responding to fraudulent offers of employment in the US…
De Londres
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
Lydia's 2 Light
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
Mikuly
Letitia Kamayi: You Should Know Me
Artist’s Statement
Kongo: You Should Know Me was my selfish way of learning more about my past, my ancestors through the images of my kinfolk.
Unfortunately, the archive institutions I approached all asked for paperwork I could not supply; money I could not…
Antonella
There are an estimated 55,000 people living in modern slavery in Argentina (GSI 2018). Argentine women and children are subjected to sex trafficking within the country, as are women and children from other Latin American countries, particularly Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, and…
Danze: A Film by Yole!Africa
About the Collection
This collection documents the work of a community-based partnership between the Antislavery Usable Past project and Yole!Africa in Goma and Lubumbashi. The project is based on an archive of photography produced by the British missionary Alice Seeley Harris during her time in…