#notafraid

Exhibitions - Photography Book - Workshops

Paris - Berlin - London - Stockholm - Manchester - Barcelona - Nice - Brussels

Report on a European
attitude

#notafraid is a photo report about the similarities and differences of commemoration after Islamist attacks in European cities between 2015 and 2020.

Exhibitions, an illustrated book and workshops will provide insights into European sensitivities in the very different ways in which the consequences of terrorism are dealt with: Between state-bearing and profane, instrumentalizing and appreciative commemoration, between grief and catharsis.

#notafraid wants to support a European position that is neither intimidated by Islamist terror nor populists.

Since the attacks in Paris in November 2015, the report has grown into an extensive documentation with photos of the anniversaries of the attacks. These are supplemented by interviews with people who play a special role in the respective city.

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„The past will have been worked through only when the causes of what happened then have been eliminated.“

Theodor W. Adorno

The components

The first exhibitions will take place in autumn 2020 at the German-French Cultural Centre in Nice and in January 2021 at the Goethe Institute in Paris. Further exhibitions in and outside of Europe are planned.

If you are interested in showing the exhibition at your place, please contact us.

The photography book combines photo reports from the last years with further text contributions and will be published in translations in English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish and Spanish in January 2021.

The workshops will mainly deal with the commemoration and the contradictions in modern society in terms of content and pedagogy.

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About the photographer

Boris Bocheinski started photojournalism in the early 1990s while studying economics and now works internationally in many areas of visual communication. In 2015 he witnessed the attack at the Stade de France (Paris), his desk in Berlin is 80m away from the site of the 2016 attack.

As a board member of the association Clever - internationale Bildung e.V., he manages and coordinates Franco-German projects such as "Windwechsel" (vocational orientation wind power), "Berlyon" (escape and migration in Franco-German comparison), "Kultiversität" (photo project and intercultural encounter in the field of tension between metropolis and surrounding area). He is also involved in the steering committee of the Network Diversity and Participation. -- www.bocheinski.com

Prospects

The first part of #notafraid deals with the commemoration of the victims of an ISIS offensive in Western Europe, the beginning of which can be dated with the attack against the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014.

The next step will be a more global perspective: in October 2019 the first reports on the commemoration after the attacks on the synagogues in Halle and Pittsburgh were produced, in March 2020 on the mosques in Christchurch. Further reports are in preparation, among others, for El Paso (USA), Hanau (Germany), Mogadishu (Somalia) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).

Cooperation partners and supporters are being sought.

Halle (Germany, 2019)

Trash cans cordon of a crime scene, right-wing radicals mingle with the commemoration... the day after the attack motivated by antisemitism.

Pittsburgh (USA, 2019)

Patriotic in interreligious dialogue: one year after the attack of the Tree of Life Synagogue.

Christchurch (New Zealand, 2020)

Commemoration in Corona times, one year after the attacks on two mosques with cancellations, missionary, culinary and Haka dance.

Partners and supporters

The project #notafraid origins in the initiative of the photographer Boris Bocheinski. It is supported by a network of partners, most of whom have worked together for years in various fields. In addition to the financial support, it is their competencies in pedagogical and linguistic matters, as well as organisational structures that bring them into play, without which such a large and complex project cannot be realised.

For the realization of more exhibitions and workshops, in and outside of Europe we are still looking for further support from companies, media, institutions and individuals.