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The photography exhibition „Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging and the Future“ was opened at the Tolerance Center of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum on the 25th of August, 2015. A unique contemporary photography exhibition on Scottish Jewish life from world-renowned documentary photographer Judah Passow, brought for the first time to Lithuania. The exhibition captures the complexity and diversity of Scottish Jews at the beginning of the 21st century. The Scottish Jewish community dates back to at least the 1700s and has produced scientists and doctors, judges and Members of Parliament, artists and writers, farmers and foresters, kilt makers and whisky distillers! The story of this community and how it maintains its traditions while fully embracing Scottish culture is a fascinating one.
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At the opening of the exhibition
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Judah Passow graduated from Boston University in the United States in 1971 and has been working on assignments for American and European magazines and newspapers since 1978. Based in London, his work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Times and Sunday Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Independent. Abroad, he has contributed regularly to Time, Newsweek and the New York Times in America, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit in Germany, Elsevier magazine and De Volkskraant in Holland, Das magazine in Switzerland and L’Express in France.
Author of the exhibition Judah Passow
Judah won four World Press Photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the Middle East. His book Shattered Dreams, looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was published in 2008 and accompanied by major exhibitions in London, Hamburg and Jerusalem. It was nominated for that year's Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. His book Shattered Dreams, looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was published in 2008 and accompanied by major exhibitions in London, Hamburg and Jerusalem. It was nominated for that year's Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Photography critic Steve Mayes noted in Reuel Golden’s book “Witness: The World’s Greatest News Photographers”, that “Judah Passow has an extraordinary ability to distil complex situations into powerfully loaded images that are deceptively simple to look at. He starts with a conceptual overview of a political or social situation and looks for circumstances that demonstrate the human reality, producing clean, graphic frames that combine metaphor and actuality“.
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Head of the Public Relations and Education Department Irina Pocienė – masters the opening ceremony
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Head of the Tolerance Center Ieva Šadzevičienė reads the greeting word on behalf of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum
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Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lithuania Claire Lawrence
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Photographer Passow talks to the Chair of the Jewish Community of Lithuania Kukliansky
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| Ambassador of the State of Israel to Lithuania Amir Maimon (second from left on the first row) also participated at the opening of the exhibition |
Member of the Seimas of Lithuania E. Zingeris talks to the Ambassador of United Kingdom Mrs. Lawrence and Deputy Head of Mission Mr. Cushing |
From the left: The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lithuania Claire Lawrence, Vice-Minister of Culture of Lithuania Patricija Poderytė, Producer of the Exhibition Michael Mail and Photographer Judah Passow |
Judah Passow
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The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Embassy of the United Kingdom to Lithuania. It will be displayed at the Tolerance Center until the 5th of October, 2015.
Producer of the exhibition Michael Mail.
Photos by Paulius Račiūnas
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