Exhibition and Book presentation
We are Cypriots
28 Cypriots tell Their Stories: Reports and Photographs from a Divided Island
Between 2015 and 2018, during the reunification talks and after their failure, German photographer Lisa Fuhr visited Cypriots throughout the island and photographed them in their natural environment. These intimate photographs and the accompanying detailed conversations provide information about life in Cyprus today. “I’ve always been interested in taking a look behind the scenes in other countries“, says Fuhr. The feelings of the Cypriots across the island and their individual life stories in an ambivalent, divided country are thus given special attention in this exhibition.
Lisa Fuhr will present her book We are Cypriots – Wir sind Zyprer at the opening of the exhibition on 15th May at 7 pm.
There will be a panel discussion with Lisa Fuhr, conducted by Klaus Hillenbrand, Berlin journalist and senior editor at the German daily die tageszeitung (taz). In his comprehensive foreword to this 416-page book, Hillenbrand traces the historical and contemporary as well as the social and political developments that have deeply shaped this island and Cypriots until today.
Fuhr's chronicle takes us behind the scenes and shares personal stories that official narratives often ignore. In addition to the 28 interviews and personal reports in German and English, 110 colour photographs are also presented.
Publications:
2005: Mein Laden – mein Leben (German, My Shop – My Life) was published by München-Verlag: portraits of 21 Munich shopkeepers
2014: Three years of research and travelling to Georgia culminated in Tbilisi – Life in a New Era. 34 Portraits. icon Verlag
Details
Goethe-Institut Nicosia
21 Markou Drakou
Next to Ledra Palace Hotel on the "Green Line"
1102 Nicosia
Language: German, English
Price: Admission free
+357 22 674606 kultur-nikosia@goethe.de
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