The joint exhibition Humanity at War: Reflections, currently showing at Malta Enterprise until July 23, presents viewers with images from six wars through the works of photojournalists Darrin Zammit Lupi and Heidi Levine. From the current wars in Ukraine and Syria to the ongoing flare ups in Libya, Palestine and Israel, and even the recent wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the photographs document the impact of war on civilian life. “Levine’s images capture the horror and brutality of war; the violence, cruelty, depravity and the never-ending saga of losses that throw human beings into despair,” expresses Pamela Baldacchino, the curator of the exhibition. “Zammit Lupi’s work is mostly presented as a series of black and white photographic images that capture the poignancy of refugees fleeing from Ukraine as they cross the border into Medyka or wait outside the train station in Przemyśl on the Poland-Ukraine border,” she says. Funds raised from the exhibition will go towards Ukrainian refugees in Malta and the building of ‘Becs’ Junior Secondary school in Ethiopia, in memory of 15-year-old Rebecca Zammit Lupi who died in 2021 from a rare form of cancer. Speaking to Times of Malta about...
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