Exhibition of photos from Congo

The Congo is a country that has huge natural wealth but is desperately poor. There are around 1.6 million Congolese who are internally displaced, refugees in their own country, who receive food and shelter from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

To record and highlight their situation photographer Susan Schulman was commissioned to document the conditions around bringing food and shelter to people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Her work is now an exhibition called Exposed And Hungry:Life In Eastern Congo on show at gallery@oxo, on the ground floor of the Oxo Tower building on the south bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges.

The exhibition tells the story of the struggles and experiences of people in transit and in the refugee camps, and is funded by the UK Department for International Development. Exposed and Hungry runs from 25 April-13 May 2007 and admission is free. The gallery@oxo is open daily from 11am-6pm.