Documenting Disposable People is a major photography project taking an in-depth look at the prevalence of slavery and injustice in the twenty-first century, through the lenses of eight internationally-acclaimed documentary photographers, Abbas, Ian Berry, Stuart Franklin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Chris Steele-Perkins and Alex Webb.
Slavery may be illegal but it's by no means defunct. Today, over 200 years after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, an estimated 27 million people worldwide are still locked into slavery and servitude across the globe.
Documenting Disposable People is a major photography project, organised by Hayward Touring in collaboration with the photographic agencies Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos, taking an in-depth look at the prevalence of slavery and injustice in the twenty-first century.
Presenting newly commissioned photo essays by eight internationally-acclaimed documentary photographers on diverse instances of contemporary global slavery, the publication includes also commentaries on each of these projects, an essay by one of the world’s leading authorities on global slavery, Kevin Bales, and an interview with Director of Autograph ABP and curator Mark Sealy, providing vital insights into one of the most pressing issues of our time.
From child labour in Bangladesh to sex slavery from Ukraine to Western Europe and the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japanese troops during the Second World War, Documenting Disposable People shows how the unfortunate emergence of a new kind of slavery is inextricably linked to the 'ascent' of a global economy.
Photographers included in this volume are Abbas (Iran), Ian Berry (UK), Stuart Franklin (UK), Jim Goldberg (US), Susan Meiselas (US), Paolo Pellegrin (Italy), Chris Steele-Perkins (UK) and Alex Webb (US). |