Dear all,

This Wednesday (tomorrow) in Cafe Amsterdam we will have a talk by photographer and environmentalist Amy Sexton. She will show some of her photos in a presentation. It will be also an introduction to her photographic exhibition in Cafe Amsterdam starting the same day.

About Amy Sexton, her lecture and exhibition:

Conversations and photographs with strangers breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for positive change. Amy Sexton started a photographic project in 2008 on “100 Strangers”, with a view to documenting and sharing those 100 stories and pictures. As an environmentalist in Mongolia on a one-year Australian Youth Ambassadors program, there has also been the opportunity to explore and document the environmental and social issues faced in Mongolia through work and travel. It has also presented unique opportunities to gather the stories of Mongolian people, their context and their lives, creating little bridges of understanding between photographer, stranger and viewer, and making strangers not so strange.

People in Australia, Mongolia and elsewhere selected each of the photographs presented in the exhibition through a participatory process.  The result is a collection of photographs of Mongolian people and places and is not only intended for exhibition here in Mongolia, but also for those who are unable to travel here and still be part of an international community with an interest in the country, its people and stories.

Team Cafe Amsterdam