ACCIDENT OF BIRTH
A unique and moving photographic Oxhibition at Salisbury Oxfam Gallery
January 7th – 29th 2010

Salisbury based photographer Clare Allen Crook is holding an exhibition of photographs entitled Accident of Birth documenting her work with the Sri Lankan people following the tsunami in 2004.

Clare has worked as a photographer in London, New York, Afghanistan, Italy, Africa and Bermuda. In 2004, Clare was caught up in the tsunami in Sri Lanka and decided to remain there to make a photographic record of the aftermath and subsequent rebuilding process. On her return to the UK she became co-founder of a charity called Rebuilding Sri Lanka, which has remained operational ever since, providing sustained support and rehabilitation to the coastal villages and communities affected by the tsunami.

Clare says: “It is an accident of birth that separates us from the millions of people living in acute poverty throughout the world and the answer is not a complicated one. They need our help and we can give it to them. It is my hope that this exhibition will generate an understanding and compassion for a scarcely known country and the serious plight of its remarkable people.”

All sales and proceeds raised by Accident of Birth will go to Rebuilding Sri Lanka and Oxfam International.

Rebuilding Sri Lanka is a registered charity (No. 1109622). For more information on its work, visit www.rebuildingsrilanka.org.uk