Diaspora
Monday 1 March 2004
6.15pm
Frédéric
Brenner
Chair: Andrew Renton
The celebrated photographer Frédéric
Brenner has spent the last 25 years capturing Jewish life and culture in more
than 40 countries. Witty, moving and uplifting, his photographs document
communities that no longer exist as well as a new, vibrant world of Jewish
life. Now published as Diaspora: Homelands in Exile, this extraordinary
visual anthology depicts the immense diversity of the Jewish people.
In this session, to mark the UK launch of his book,
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile, Frédéric
Brenner led a captivated audience, with photographs and stories, on a magical
odyssey from Birobidzhan to Buenos Aires, Havana to
Hong Kong, to answer ‘the eternal question: what makes a people?’
Frédéric
Brenner was born in Paris in
1959, and has exhibited in major venues throughout the world. His previous
anthologies include Jews/America: A Representation
(1996) and Exile at Home (1998), depicting immigrants to Israel.
Andrew Renton is Director of Curating at Goldsmiths College. He
writes a column on contemporary art in the Evening Standard.
