Alice Seeley Harris and her incorruptible Kodak
Interview with her great granddaughter, Rebecca, at the Brutal Exposure exhibition in the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
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Rebecca Seeley Harris from National Museums Liverpool on Vimeo.
This haunting exhibition presents what was probably the first photographic campaign in support of human rights. It documents the exploitation and brutality experienced by Congolese people under the control of Leopold II of Belgium in the 1900s.
Alice Seeley Harris lived much of her life in Frome. We will remember her work in bring slavery and genocide to the attention of world when we are walking on Tuesday. A local resonance.
The exhibition in Liverpool runs until June 7
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/exhibitions/brutal-exposure/index.aspx