Moving Walls 9
A Group Photography Exhibition
Don Bartletti | Stephen Ferry | Sean
Hemmerle | Steve McCurry | Larry Towell | Beggars
and Choosers
Introduction
The ninth exhibition of Moving Walls opened at OSI-New York on June 10, 2004,
less than two months after the release of the horrific images from Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq—an event that has prompted worldwide recognition of the
power of documentary photography to shape world events, not merely record them.
The Moving Walls exhibition is not organized around a specific theme, yet of
the six photographers in this exhibition, four focus on war and its aftermath:
in Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine. Those photographs, in
addition to projects about low-income mothers in the United States and a boy’s
journey north from Central America in search of a better life, challenge the
viewer to confront difficult issues and consider whether he or she can simply
walk away unchanged.
Don Bartletti
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Bound to El Norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico
The journey of a young boy making his way from Honduras to North Carolina, as recorded by
Don Bartletti, represents the massive migration of undocumented immigrants from Latin
America to the United States each year. "Bound to El Norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the
Freight Trains of Mexico" makes personal a larger story.
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Stephen Ferry
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The Wrong War
Stephen Ferry's Photographs expose a deadly conflict long misunderstood
outside of Colombia. In "The Wrong War," Ferry seeks to counter the common idea
that the country's brutal civil war is only related to narcotics trafficking,
that Colombia's is a "drug war." Rather, the images speak to the complex social
issues and historical causes that underly the violence that has wrenched the
country for decades.
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Sean Hemmerle
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The American War on Terror: Iraq
The images in Sean Hemmerle’s “The American War on Terror:
Iraq” are wholly different in style from typical war photography. People
are eerily absent: in these photographs, destruction itself is the subject.
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Steve McCurry
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Afghanistan: Between War and Peace
The legacy of the Taliban is ever-present in Steve McCurry’s images of
postwar Afghanistan. “Afghanistan: Between War and Peace” shows a
fragile country struggling to forge a new identity in the shadow of a violent
past.
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Larry Towell
Beggars and Choosers: A Group Show
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Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege
Rickie Solinger, curator of “Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a
Class Privilege,” calls for the defense of reproductive rights for all
mothers, regardless of their social or economic status. This group exhibition
focuses on families that don't comply with traditional norms.
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Moving Walls Online Exhibition
