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Photo-Journalist Kevin Clogstoun who has just completed a four month travel through Rajasthan, North India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, (documenting the refugee camps and Buddhism in Sri Lanka) will be presenting an exhibition of this work titled "My Country, My Neighbour", from 24 January - 12 February 2003 at the Barefoot Gallery, Colombo.

Kevin Clogstoun's philosophy as a photographer is based on the recognition of human suffering brought about by the inhumanity of others.

This could be self-inflicted as in the event of war, or by preference as with the choice of a lifestyle, or they could follow some natural calamity. However, it is not with natural causes that Clogstoun is concerned, but with the victims of human machination.

He is concerned with human rights and has, therefore, spent much time seeking these subjects, working on several such projects in Australia, India and Sri Lanka. He is self-funded and his work has been undertaken under difficult financial conditions.

* In 1999, Clogstoun visited the camps set up for the rehabilitation of soldiers injured in the civil war in Sri Lanka. The photographs he took there formed part of an exhibition to document the activities of the Sri Lanka Army then marking its 50th Anniversary;

* Two years before, in 1997, Clogstoun attended the annual festival of eunuchs at Kovakkam in Tamilnadu, South India, documenting the celebrations of these much despised outcasts of society;

* In 1997, Clogstoun also prepared a photo-journalistic essay on the culture and lives of the people of Sri Lanka. These photographs were shown at the exhibition at the Barefoot Gallery (Gallery 706) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to great acclaim;

* Clogstoun carried out research and photographed the homeless of Melbourne in 1996, in conjunction with the Council to Homeless Persons. He was invited to exhibit the results of his study "Homeless in a lucky country", at the Galleria Banking Chamber Victoria. (Curator Karan Crinall - Monash University);

* In Melbourne, in 1995, Clogstoun carried out an extensive behind-the-scenes assignment on the fractured lives of circus people and their families. An exhibition of these photographs titled "The Transient Lives of Circus Performers" was held, by invitation, at Melbourne's Caulfield Arts Complex;

* Clogstoun's documentary and travel work has been published in Australia and overseas. 

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