Sunday 21 December, at the Cantiere Oberdan and Palazzo Leonetti Luparini, opening of photographic exhibitions documenting the phenomenon of child labour.

“Stolen Childhood“, this is the title of the exhibition dedicated to the photographs by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) on child labour in America in the first decades of the twentieth century, that will be presented to the public at h 18.00 at Palazzo Leonetti Luparini (via del Municipio, in front of the Spoleto Town Hall).

While working for the National Child Labor Committee, Hine has been taking thousands of photographs of child labour in the United States of America since 1907, raising public awareness in his country. The photographs document the work of children in the countryside, in industries (mining, textiles, food), in the streets and at home.

The images, of exceptional documentary and aesthetic quality, are the result of a careful selection of material (the exhibition features 81 photos from over 5000 photographs on the website of the American Congress) made available by the Library of Congress, Washington D.C..

The exhibition aims at raising awareness on one of the greatest artists of photography of the last century, and at bringing the theme of work back under the spotlight, unafraid of highlighting its disturbing, dramatic aspects.

“Stolen Childhood Today” is the title of the exhibition that documents the exploitation of minors in today’s globalized world, will be presented at h 16.00 at the Cantiere Oberdan.

This second exhibition is a direct offshoot of the first one, as the title shows, a part of a project developed by the Cantiere Oberdan Committee included in the Plan of the Training Offer of the City of Spoleto, which was joined by four classes of the full-time elementary school “Le Corone”, two third classes of the middle school “A. Manzoni”, a third class of the High School of Human Sciences, three classes of the tourism section of the Higher Technical Institute “G. Spagna”.

The exhibitions will be open until January 14, 2015, from Tuesday to Sunday from 16.00 to 19.00.