Active in the US and Middle East, the artists in the exhibition depict the conditions and people caught in the crossfire of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, and Israel from a variety of perspectives. The artists included in Aftermath are Lynsey Addario, Jananne Al-Ani, Jennifer Karady, Gloriann Liu, Rania Matar, Eman Mohammed, Farah Nosh, Suzanne Opton, Michal Rovner, Stephen Dupont, Ben Lowy, and Simon Norfolk.
This exhibition is organized by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harn 25th Anniversary Fund, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Joanne L. and Edward R. Block Charitable Trust, with additional support from the Harn Curator of Photography Endowment.
Further support was generously provided by the Chao Ringling Museum Endowment, the William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Endowment, the Bob and Diane Roskamp Endowment and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation.
Image: Simon Norfolk, Bullet-Scarred Apartment Building and Shops, Karte Char District, Kabul, Afghanistan, Archival pigment print, From the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia, Loan and image courtesy of the photographer and Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA.