Meet Me Here encourages its viewers to think about seeing the issue of
displacement through the eyes of the displaced. The photographs displayed here
were taken by children from the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana, which was
created by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in
1990 as a result of the influx of Liberian refugees fleeing the country because of
civil war under the rule of Charles Taylor. In the summer of 2010 Art for Global
Justice, a nonprofit organization that promotes arts education as a platform
for self-expression, ran the Possibilities project in Ghana and spent two days
at Buduburam. In collaboration with Of Rags, a sustainable clothing line, team
members taught the children of Buduburam about photography, focusing on
landscapes, people, abstract objects, movement, and emotions. The children
were able to see their environment through a new lens (literally and figuratively)
as well as find a voice for themselves in their community.
Art for Global Justice encourages the viewers to think about displacement, hope,
perspective, and documentation, as well as the disorganization of the refugee
camp system and reality that those without documents are still people, still
children, and are not to be simply ignored or placed within a system where they
can fall between the cracks of bureaucracy. Art for Global Justice now presents
you with the opportunity to travel to a world that is often overlooked.