“Life on the Border” is an exhibit of photographs that offer a glimpse into the lives of the Burmese people. Burma is a country located in Southeast Asia and has been war stricken for most of its existence as a country.

According to the U.S. Department of State Diplomacy In Action website, the Burmese authorities have perpetrated numerous documented human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, disappearances, rape, torture, displacement and refugee outflows of ethnic minorities.

Over two million Burmese, many of them ethnic minorities, have fled for economic and political reasons to Thailand, Bangladesh, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere. Robert Gerhardt’s photographs offer a view of this devastation, destruction, the rays of humanity and the life that still goes on in the war stricken land of Burma.

Gerhardt hopes that those who see his photographs and hear his experiences of capturing the lives of the Burmese people will “learn about what’s going on there and want to help…”

To hear from Gerhardt and see more photographs on display, there is a lecture at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the Ronk Lecture Hall located in Schar.

The opening reception for the Robert Gerhardt-Life on the Border Photography Exhibition will be 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Coburn Gallery.

The Gallery is open from Sept. 22 through Oct. 16.