Ek Khaale: Once Upon A Time - The Rohingya

Ek Khaale is a collaborative, visual documentary project about Rohingya history, existence and belonging, and participation and community in Burma.

The Rohingya have often been described as the most persecuted minority in the world. Ek Khaale, the Rohingya expression for “Once Upon A Time,” presents them in a different light. It is a collaborative, co-participatory storytelling and visual restoration project. Working with Rohingya youth and Rohingya elders, the project seeks out historical visual materials that Rohingya have miraculously preserved, secretly held on to all these years (often at great personal risk) or have salvaged and carried with them under the most unimaginable circumstances.
 
Old photographs, family collections, documents, letters and illustrations contributed by Rohingya are combined with historical materials from a variety of public and private archives. This project brings these materials and stories from the past back together again and activates them in the present. By exposing this unseen past, this project aims to share a visual portrait of the Rohingya most people have never seen before. It also challenges narratives and reconstructs what successive Burmese regimes have spent decades trying to destroy. The project was launched by photographer Greg Constantine in 2021. At this event, Greg will present the project, alongside reflections from members of the diaspora from Myanmar.

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