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ALICE SEELEY – ANTI-SLAVERY CAMPAIGNER

11 July @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
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This joint exhibition with Photo|Frome presents searing photographs by Frome resident Alice Seeley (1870–1970) in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State. Using her Kodak camera, she documented the mutilation of Congolese people under a brutal regime designed to enforce rubber production quotas. Shown internationally as lantern slides, her images galvanised public opinion and resulted in the collapse of Leopold’s personal rule in 1908. Alice Seeley was arguably the first photographer to create and use her own images as part of an active campaign for social change. Some photographs in this exhibition may be distressing.

The exhibition runs during Frome Museum’s normal opening hours: 11am to 3pm Tuesday to Saturday, plus Independent Market Sundays (5th July)

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