About the exhibition
Please join us for the official launch and exhibition of the photography and words featured in Uyghur Resistance.
After more than four years of work, supported by 825 donors around the world, we are proud to officially launch Uyghur Resistance in Naarm (Melbourne).
As Uyghurs, we are used to having others tell us who we are. Our identities are flattened, our stories distorted, our experiences spoken about but rarely heard.
Uyghur Resistance, as the first project of its kind, disrupts this trend. Our book affords Uyghur people a platform with which to tell their own stories, in their own words, for their own sake.
In the face of an ongoing genocide perpetrated by one of the most powerful regimes on earth, Uyghur Resistance is a testament to the diverse and often unexpected ways in which a diaspora in exile practises resistance.
This isn’t a book about what is happening to us, it is about the Uyghur voices, across continents and generations, raised in staunch defiance.
– Nuria Khasim, Editor
Produced by Kate Bensen
Designed by Lan Anh M
Photographed & Published by Sam Biddle
About the book
This is not a book about China’s genocide. This is our fight to forge a path back home.
From Boston to Taipei, this is the story of a people targeted for elimination — and the movement rising in defiance.
Amid mass internment, cultural erasure and a relentless campaign of state violence, Uyghur voices have been buried — silenced by force and ignored by the world. This book breaks that silence. Through essays, photographs and first-hand accounts, Uyghur Resistance isa refusal to be forgotten and a call for accountability.Featuring 33 Uyghur voices, 12 essays and 147 photographs from across the global diaspora.
Printed by Wilco Art Books in the Netherlands, Uyghur Resistance is 256 pages, offset print on 90gsm Muken Premium paper, with a 270gsm Vermillion cover and a 240gsm dust jacket.