OSI Documentary Photography Project Announces Moving Walls 17 Photographers

The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project announces the photographers included in its Moving Walls 17 exhibition.  The exhibition will open on June 2, 2010, in the OSI-New York office and move to the Washington, D.C., office in the spring of 2011.

Moving Walls is an exhibition series that features in-depth and nuanced explorations of human rights and social issues. Thematically linked to OSI's mission, Moving Walls is exhibited at OSI's offices in New York and Washington, DC and includes seven discrete bodies of work. Since its inception in 1998, Moving Walls has featured the work of over 100 photographers.

Moving Walls recognizes the brave and difficult work that photographers undertake globally in their documentation of complex social and political issues. Their images provide the world with human rights evidence, put faces onto a conflict, document the struggles and defiance of marginalized people, reframe how issues are discussed publicly, and provide opportunities for reflection and discussion. Through Moving Walls, OSI honors this work while visually highlighting the mission of our foundation to staff and visitors.

Moving Walls 17 Photographers

• Jan Banning: “Bureaucratics”
• Mari Bastashevski: "File 126—Disappearing in Caucasus”
• Chachipe Youth: Roma youth photo competition
• Christian Holst :   on daily life in Burma
• Saiful Huq Omi: on stateless Rohingya Refugees living in Bangladesh
• Ara Oshagan: “Juvies”, on high-risk juvenile offenders in the California prison system
• Lori Waselchuk : “Grace Before Dying”, on inmate hospice volunteers at Angola State Penitentiary