Talk by RGS member Alex Haslam and photographer Ben Robinson
Date and time:
Thursday 16 July, 2015
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
This event will include presentations by Alex Haslam ‘Travelling around Ukraine on the way from Hong Kong to London’. As a result of a visa mix-up, Alexander was forced to abandon his plan of traveling from Moscow to Berlin via Minsk and instead had to travel south via Ukraine; spending time in Kyiv at the very moment armed separatists stormed police compounds in Donetsk.
This will be followed by a presentation by Ben Robinson ‘Still Displaced: Images and conversations from Eastern Ukraine’. Through photography and conversations, Ben’s goal is to capture the stories of people who have left their homes as well as those who have chosen to stay. During the presentation at the Ukrainian Institute, a collection of images and a selection of stories from this recent visit will be shared.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Alexander Haslam
Alexander Haslam lives and works in Hong Kong as a lawyer. He read Classics at Manchester University before training to be a lawyer; working in London for a number of years, moving to Hong Kong in 2008 where he has remained ever since. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, Alexander has been a passionate traveler since his teenage years, journeying variously through Central America, Eastern Europe, Siberia, the Levant, and the Middle East, across littoral North Africa, sharing a cold drink with Saif Gaddafi, second son of Muamar Gaddafi in the Jebel Acacus Mountains in Southern Libya along the way.
Speaker
Ben Robinson
Ben Robinson is a photographer, he has lived in Oxford since 2011. After reading Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University, Ben went to Ukraine to work and study in 1995 for two years and end up staying more than 15 working with the Centre for Leadership Development and Kyiv Business School.
