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| "Why do you do what you’re doing?" For three years the photographer Katharina Mouratidi portrayed activists of social and political movements from 43 countries: farmers and workers, students, reindeer-breeders, native and indigenous people, scientists, Christians, atheists, citizens and revolutionaries. She asked all of them, including many internationally recognised, prominent personalities – like Peace Nobel Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú and Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics Joseph Stiglitz – the same question:"Why do you do what you’re doing?" In answering this question, the interviewed related a great deal about their own stories and personal motives for their engagement. The answers Mouratidi collected are as exceptional as they are varied – spectacular and normal, aggressive, loving, full of longing, idealism and hope, but also moving, alarming, and thought-provoking. Considered together, they have only one thing in common: the certainty that, for the survival of humanity and our planet, a change in consciousness – leading to another globalisation from which all people profit, as well as to a sustainable relationship with the environment – is absolutely indispensable. The work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and internationally. Some of the locations have been so far: 07.March-20.April 2008, FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA 10.July-05.Sept 2007, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 23.Sept-19.Nov 2006, Foto&Photo, Festival, Milan, Italy 26.Sept-01.Oct 2006, Photokina, Cologne, Germany 16.Sept-24.Oct 2005, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany The book on this series has been published by Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany www.editionbraus.de >> "Venceremos! The Other Globalisation" Hardcover, 128 pages, 50 images, ISBN 3-89904-246-8 Mouratidi_Venceremos.pdf (2,7 MB) >> |