Catalog of an exhibition held at FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium June 28-October 6, 2019. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Annex. The Lord's Resistance Army conflict : a brief history. by Rein Desle -- Lives within coercive circumstances : understanding the LRA's pictures -- Finding, selecting and publishing the photographs -- The (doomed) journey behind the pictures -- The commanders in the photographs -- Section II. Inside the LRA and its photos. Coercion, control and violence in the Lord's Resistance Army -- Drawings by former abductees, and their experiences of violence -- Photos to create fear and project power -- The LRA as a "normal" family? -- The place of women in the LRA insurgency / by Harriet Anena -- Learning to fight and look tough -- Tensions of ordinary life in the LRA -- Section III. Outside of the LRA, and being stuck? Peace demonstrations : the population stuck in the middle -- Coming home -- Clash / Christine Oryema Lalobo -- The photographs and their agents : why you should care before you share / by Rein Desle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Annex. The Lord's Resistance Army conflict : a brief history.
Summary:
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by the infamous Joseph Kony, was active in northern Uganda from the second half of the 1980s. The rebel group became notorious for the use of extreme violence, in particular its large-scale abductions of children. Rebel Lives is a visual story about life inside the rebel movement: based on photographs taken by LRA commanders between 1994 and 2004, this book documents life within violent circumstances, and depicts the rebels as they wanted to be seen among themselves and by the outside world. Kristof Titeca, Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Antwerp and expert on the LRA, collected this material, and used it to trace the photographed (former) rebels. Together with Congolese photographer Georges Senga, he travelled back to photograph the former rebels in their current context. With text contributions from Jonathan Littell, Harriet Anena, Rein Desle, and Christine Oryema Lalobo.
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