In Palermo, Steve McCurry's exposing exhibition for Afghan women's freedom

From March 29 to July 17, 2022, the Royal Palace in Palermo will host the exhibition For Freedom by renowned photographer Steve McCurry. The exhibition aims to be a photographic account of a drama in full swing, a rallying cry for Afghan women’s rights. Against Freedom Denied. With the return of the Taliban in 2021, women in Afghanistan have lost all rights to study and social life, have been banned from all activities. Any form of freedom of thought and action is cancelled daily to all Afghan women and girls.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Frederick II Foundation and Steve McCurry: the protagonist is the moral outrage of humanity, the violation of fundamental rights, which the famous photographer recounts through forty-nine images.

“There are shots that become a voice, a cry, a request for help,” stresses Gianfranco Miccichè, president of the Fondazione Federico II. "Before them, we cannot escape the role of witnesses. For our conscience to question those atrocities, it is essential to evoke through images the dimension of yearning for freedom and social redemption. McCurry’s photographs for us represent an ideal bridge to the Afghan world. It is no coincidence that we have dedicated an area of the palace that is not usually used for exhibitions to For Freedom."

"The For Freedom exhibition,“ says Patrizia Monterosso, director general of the Frederick II Foundation, ”is a narrative of the denial of the guarantee of freedom and rights for Afghan women that seemed to have been won. The uniqueness of McCurry’s photographs continually bounces between past and present meanings, between the hopes and freedoms once gained and the atrocities of the present. Faced with the dramatic images and news of these months, we captured the authentic sense of his disbelief and wanted to offer an exhibition that would give voice to the women of Afghanistan who have once again become invisible and without identity."

The exhibition is on display at the Royal Apartments, along the visiting route of the Monumental Complex, and can be visited Friday, Saturday and Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sunday and holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Image: Steve McCurry, Afghanistan © Steve McCurry

In Palermo, Steve McCurry's exposing exhibition for Afghan women's freedom

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