The Silk Road: A living history exhibition opens in London

In London, the Aga Khan Foundation announces the opening of The Silk Road: A Living History, an open-air photography exhibition by travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer. Comprised of over 160 photographs, the exhibition invites the viewer to take a journey from London to Beijing, encountering many of the people, places and cultures along the ancient trade route. The exhibition’s linear design creates a physical route for viewers offering them the chance to travel by proxy. The exhibition aims to celebrate the diversity of cultural expressions found along the Silk Road, to highlight examples of how historical practices, rituals and customs live on today, and also to reveal some of the connections between what appear at first glance to be very different cultures.