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Into The Light: Exhibition documenting life in Lebanon opens in aid of the Rebecca Dykes Foundation

Last December, Rebecca Dykes, a young British diplomat, was senselessly killed in Lebanon. Shortly after her death, the Rebecca Dykes Foundation was set up by friends and family to channel her energy and build a legacy.

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All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

Now, almost a year on from Rebecca’s tragic death, the Foundation is hosting Into The Light, an exhibition displaying paintings by Tom Young of the places she loved and photographs by photojournalist Edward Jonkler of the humanitarian work she was passionate about.

Jonkler’s never before seen photographs, show the great variety of life in Shatila and Bourj el-Barajneh camps in Beirut. Generations on from initial displacement, Palestinians in Lebanon remain cut off from the country they live in, and their camps have developed since 1948 into sprawling, segregated communities with their own economies, security, and culture.

Edward Jonkler whose first solo exhibition, The Lost Men of Syria was shown at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017 comments on the situation in Lebanon: "Palestinians arrived in Lebanon 70 years ago and have been marginalised ever since, with the struggle to move on from their past affecting their future. In the camps are individual stories of struggles, triumphs, and hopes for the future, and I have tried to tell these stories in a way that will humanise this closed community."

Into The Light will take place at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery in London from Monday 10 December until Friday 14 December 2018. For more information about the Rebecca Dykes Foundation, visit rebeccadykesfoundation.com.

Woman wearing a white headscarf and purple embroidered dress sits indoors, looking towards the camera with a calm expression
Young woman in a red sports shirt holding a wooden stick, seated indoors against a beige wall
Elderly Palestinian woman wearing a white headscarf and floral patterned dress, smiling at the camera in her home
Young boy smiling at a table with stacked flatbread, a gas cylinder and household items in a modest kitchen space in a Beirut camp
Woman wearing a white hijab and patterned dress sitting on a dark patterned sofa against a blue wall in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut
An elderly man with a long white beard and dark beanie stands behind a market stall selling yellow lemons in a Lebanese camp
Elderly woman wearing a black headscarf holds her tattooed hand to her face, looking at the camera with a gentle expression
A young man in a green Goethe Institut shirt holds a white dove against a blue cloudy sky, with a cityscape visible below
Man with white beard wearing black t-shirt and chain necklace, photographed indoors in what appears to be a residential space in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon
Child walking through a narrow alleyway in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, wearing a striped blue and red jumper
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