The Lost Moment exhibition presented us with a vast quantity of photographs that included the Civil Rights in the United States of America as well as in Northern Ireland, etc. Although the photos were taken in the mid to late 1960’s, events occurring in the present are tied to the ones in the 1960’s such as the racism going on in America and the border question of Northern Ireland as a result of Brexit.
The photographs showcased the brutalities committed by the law enforcement on the African-American community in America who were battling for their rights. Photos of major events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King giving speeches (documented by Stephen Shapiro, in March of 1965) were featured in the aforementioned exhibition. The Lost Moment exhibition looks anew at the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland (which were inspired by the Civil Rights in the United States) fifty years on from the peaceful protests that vehemently preceded the Troubles.
In my opinion, the exhibition perfectly exhibits the history of global conflicts going on in those times but does so in a very aesthetically fascinating direction. Each individual photograph gives us a good idea on how oppressed the populations were, for example, a photograph of a Czechoslovakian woman berating a Soviet soldier during the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Overall I enjoyed the experience, since I find this time period in history to be really interesting. It showed me so much imagery which I wasn’t familiar with.
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