Every week, L’Oeil de la Photographie features the latest episode of the radio program Regardez voir, produced by Brigitte Patient for France Inter. This week, a discussion with photographers Laurence Rasti and Aldo Soligno about laws forbidding homosexuality in Iran and Uganda.
Laurence Rasti is a young Swiss photographer and part of the Iranian diaspora. Her series on homosexual Iranian couples living in exile in Turkey was exhibited at the Circulation(s) festival in Paris. “The goal was to give these people a face, an identity they were not entitled to in their own country,” she says.
Aldo Soligno is a young Italian photographer. His project Let them show their faces, about homosexuals in Uganda, was featured in the Circulation(s) photo festival and earned him the 2014 Pride Photo Award. Everything changed in Uganda on February 24th, 2014, when an anti-gay law was passed. Stays S., 30, says, “Now I live in constant fear that they’re going to knock on my door, arrest me, make me disappear.” The law carries a life imprisonment sentence for anyone accused of homosexuality. Following the law’s passage, the country’s tabloid newspapers published hundreds of photographs of gay activists under the headline, “Hang Them.” For this series, Soligno asked Ugandan activists to pose with their faces turned away from the camera, backlit, creating hypothetical negatives of these defamatory images published in the Ugandan press.
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