Believe - The Lonka Project
Silo Park, Corner of Beaumont and Jellicoe Street, CBD, Auckland
Monday 27 May 2024 – Friday 14 June 2024 7:00am – 7:00pm
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The Lonka Project - Presented by Auckland Festival of Photography Trust & Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, exclusively in the Silo Park area, following its presentation at Bondi Beach, during last year's Sydney festival.
When Holocaust survivor Dr Eleonora ‘Lonka’ Nass died, her daughter Rina realised she knew very little of her mother’s experience of the Nazi concentration camps. In 2019, Rina and her husband, Jim Hollander, decided to launch this project to document Holocaust survivors’ stories and asked fellow professional photographers worldwide to create portraits of survivors. 320 photographers in 35 countries each contributed portraits of a diverse group of Holocaust survivors, the last among us who will soon be unable to share their experiences in the first person.
The Lonka Project is an ongoing project consisting of a collection of 455 individual portraits of Holocaust survivors by over 320 professional photographers in some 35 countries, all contributing portraits of an equally diverse group of Holocaust survivors.