Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News photojournalism exhibit to open at uOttawa

September 21, 2006

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Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News photojournalism exhibit to open at uOttawa

OTTAWA, September 21, 2006 — The University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Carleton University and the Embassy of Afghanistan, will play host to an important exhibition highlighting the story of female communicators in Afghanistan.

Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women Making the News takes a look into the lives of Afghan women journalists, producers, managers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, human rights activists and parliamentarians.

The exhibit takes visitors into the lives of these women; lives that are not easy, juggling newly-found freedoms with traditional responsibilities at home, and all the while, struggling with the ghosts of their country’s harrowing past.

Voices on the Rise reveals how the women communicators of Afghanistan are true revolutionaries who have found a voice through the media, and who, through their work, are helping to ensure all Afghan women are given a voice.

The exhibit, which features Canadian photographers Leslie Knott, Lana Slezic, Marija Dumancic, and Elise Jacob, is organized by Jane McElhone and Khorshied Samad and is the first of its kind in the world.

It will be officially opened by Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Canada, Omar Samad, and uOttawa President Gilles Patry.