Photojournalist Gulshan Khan held a Q&A session at Hundred Heroines photography museum in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, on Saturday.
Ms Khan’s exhibition, Poisoned Futures?, incorporating work by Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger, runs until October 25th and incorporates two of her bodies of work which explore the complex issues of climate change, environmental justice and human survival. Gulshan Khan’s work is centred on her native South Africa.
The exhibition also featured installations in two other locations – Miles Marling Field in Forest Green, and King George V Playing Field in Nailsworth, as well as the newly launched Art Garden in Mortimer Gardens.
Gulshan told Stroud Times: “It’s a great privilege to be part of Hundred Heroines, an organisation who I think are doing phenomenal work and I have been really grateful to be partnering and collaborating with people whose values I’m aligned with.
“Poisoned Futures is looking at climate change and its impacts, and its very human impacts. I’ve brought two stories to share as part of the exhibition, one is called Life in Plastic and it is to do with waste pickers that are working in Johannesburg, and the impact of what climate change is doing to people in the periphery and how we also need to look at everything more holistically when it comes to climate change and how we action change as well. Not just for the physical environment, but for the people who are in it.
“The other story is called I Can’t Breathe and has to do with coal mining and historically, the impacts of mining on people and health care, and how that is causing health issues generationally in South Africa. I think these concepts apply to people all around the world, so really rethinking how we’re moving and actioning change in a more connected and reliant on each other kind of ethos.”
The exhibition opened in June and runs until the end of this week, October 25th.
Pictures and video by Matt Bigwood
