Lifeline Foundation, it’s taking philanthropy to the cocktail
community, and now with a new art exhibit, it’s bringing the face of poverty
to their front door. It’s a photograph exhibit called Project Poverty
– and it seeks to highlight this widespread social problem by turning
it on its head. You see, they say that poverty is not a pretty picture, but
photographer Richard Holder has made it so in a set of striking photographs.
If it sounds strange, you should see how it looks! Jacqueline Godwin had a preview.
Jacqueline Godwin Reporting,
Who would have imagined that the same objects associated with poverty can also 
be transformed into captivating works of art? Or that the rugged landscapes
of squalor that populate the city can be made to seem to be portals of hope?
Well known Belizean photographer Richard Holder says such an exhibition would
be visually contradictory but he has managed to pull it off. The pictures he
has captured now hang from the walls of the Mexican Institute of Culture.
The fifteen pieces on display are of women provocatively dressed in garbage,
scraps and refuse, that we would normally throw away but which are elements
of survival for those living in poverty.
Richard Holder, Photographer
“It if it is a piece of plywood, if it is a piece of cardboard box,
if it is a rubber tire for burning some things, if it is some plastic bottles
to go back and recycle and sell, crocus bag to wear or to put something in.
It is that I am using the marketing tool of women to create attention,
it is the idea that sex sells, not to sell you anything but really just to trick
you into looking at the reality of poverty. That is basically in a nutshell
what the show is all about.”
Project Poverty will run for the next two weeks.
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