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Rotterdam

A day at Rotterdam, freezing my fingers of with a windchill of minus 10 degrees, wandering around the old harbours ‘Maashaven’, ‘Rijnhaven’ and ‘Kop van zuid’. There I visited the Fotomuseum watching an exhibition of Alfredo Jaar, “The sound of silence” and some interesting work of young belgian artists, “Supersonic Youth”.

A rectangular construction with blinding light tells the story of the photojournalist Kevin Carter, who witnessed the famine in Sudan in 1993. InThe Sound of Silence the problem of the image has central place, the controversial relationship between photography, and violence and human suffering…..

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