Fields of Shame was the mobile exhibition of photographs from totalitarian and illiberal countries, which we organized in cooperation with Polish NGO Center for Theory and Practice of Democracy and civic association Hlava 98. The exhibition consisted of pictures from concentration camps, prisons, demonstrations and exercise of power of totalitarian regimes, all appended with basic data and stories of political prisoners.
The mobile exhibition focused on unveiling the image of bitter reality in North Korea, China, Burma, Cuba and Belarus to the Slovak public, and increasing our solidarity with people living in these countries that are oppressed, punished, imprisoned or killed by their own governments only because of their beliefs. The exhibition visited Slovakia after Poland and Germany, and has been seen by more than 15 000 people in 9 major Slovak towns.
Fields of Shame were opened in Bratislava by Mr. Bogdan Wrzochalski, the chargé d’affairs of the Embassy of Poland to Slovakia, and Mr. László Nagy, the MP and head of the Human Rights Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. The mobile exhibition was opened in other towns by other popular personalities like Mr. Eduard Kukan, the former Slovak minister of foreign affairs, or Mr. Ján Figeµ, current EU commissioner from Slovakia, who took the auspices over the whole exhibition, too.
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