A JOURNEY HOME: SEAN SUTTON OF MAG

Set in Sri Lanka over 10 years, this exhibition tells the story of claering mines, land release, enabling returns and building lives in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. These powerful black and white images were captured by photojournalist Sean Sutton while working for MAG.

“I have spent the last 22 years photographing communities in the most impoverished places on earth. I did this because I wanted to try and make a difference by showing the public and the decision makers the realities that people face.”

“Try to imagine raising your family in a minefield. You have no choice and nowhere else to go. You have to risk treading the land. One day a MAG team arrives and removes the surrounding threat of death, enabling you to grow food, build a house and send your children to school in safety. Would that change your life?

That’s what this exhibition is about. It’s not all about doom and gloom. It’s about hope, humanity and courage.”
SEAN SUTTON

More information can be found at: www.magiternational.org

Heart II (fiberglass, copper and brass on a wooden base)

BOOKS at The Barefoot Bookshop

Boney Fields and John Balmond (with Glen)

Slim, Slimmer, Bones and & Blonde! Concert at Barefoot on Octerber 7th at 8:00pm

In Honor of Glen Terry’s 50th birthday we have decided to stage a concert featuring all our favourite musicians, such as the man himself, Jerome Speldewinde, Ray Gomez, Revel Craig, Al Jochaim and a host of others. Including the very talented Mr. Boney Fields on trumpet and his wife, Nadege, on saxophone. Boney and Nadege are flying in from Paris to grace the occasion. Some of you may recollect listening to Boney play in 2005 when everyone ended up dancing in the rain! According to those who attended it was a fantastic concert. We expect no less from this one. Tickets available at Barefoot Gallery office. Rs. 1000/- Hope to see you all here.

Minks in the Stream

Press Release: Memories, Maps and Dreams: Josephine Balakrishnan

Memories, Maps and Dreams: Josephine Balakrishnan, Colombo Sri Lanka
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Press Release

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Memories, Maps & Dreams 



An exhibition of paintings and prints by Josephine Balakrishnan

Opening August 13, 7:30 PM

Show runs August 14 – 31, 2011

Barefoot Gallery
706
Galle Road
Colombo 3,
Sri Lanka


In eastern culture a dream can be a map; the dreamer a vehicle of the Divine. In western culture dreams refer to the psyche’s expression of the ego. In “Memories, Maps and Dreams,” Josephine Balakrishnan deciphers the mystery of dreams.
We see the western symbols that unlock the psyche and the messages. Balakrishnan ponders, “Do we live to dream, or dream to live?” The prints and paintings in this body of work address the question, “Why do we need maps when we always have a thread of memories and a myriad of dreams to lead us through each passage?”


With colors and birds flying, this show provides not only maps of moons, images of lovers walking, and references to the past and future, but seeks to reveal our own internal maps.



Contact:
Nazreen Sansoni:

Tel: +94 11 2580114

Email: nazsansoni@gmail.com

Web: http://barefootgallery.com/



Josephine Balakrishnan:

Tel: +011 510-524-6754

Email: Jo@JosephineBalakrishnan.com

\Web: http://JosephineBalakrishnan.com


Maps and Dreams, Josephine Balakrishna

MAURITIAN COLOUR now available at the Barefoot Bookshop

Photographer, Dominic Sansoni, has just published Mauritian Colour, a book of photographs taken while travelling in Mauritius for just two weeks. Available at THE BAREFOOT BOOKSHOP Rs. 5000/-
“The book is breathtakingly beautiful. It is distilled colour, now.
Pure texture, the next minute. A feeling, the very next moment. A hymn
to the ordinary people of Mauritius and to the things they make,
paint, fix up, and to the places we live in, work at, eat and drink
in. A homage to each person we see on the page. It moved me to tears as I paged it. From its sheer love of life, its discovery of such extravagantly vibrant visual beauty in the “ordinary”. Just leafing through the book, especially for anyone who knows Mauritius intimately, becomes an uplifting experience. And stopping to contemplate a particular photograph becomes almost transcendental.” Lindsey Collen

Sunday Lunch. Barefoot Garden Cafe