Photographic exhibition tells story of people of the Congo  

Photographer Rankin has hosted a private viewing  in Number 10 of images from his recent visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The exhibition, called From Congo with Love, is a collaboration between Oxfam, Rankin and survivors of the ongoing conflict in DRC. According to  MONUC, the  UN mission to Congo, more than five million people have been killed, and two million displaced in the eastern  part of the country  since 1999. Rankin said the aim of the photographs was to bring the people of DRC to life and empower them  rather than making  them “objects of charity”. The...