Moving Walls 14 Exhibit Opens in Washington

Moving Walls 14 marks the 10th anniversary of the Open Society Institute's traveling group photography exhibition. Over the years, Moving Walls has featured more than 100 photographers and examined timely and significant human rights, humanitarian, and social justice issues.

The photographers in Moving Walls 14 continue in this tradition and document issues central to OSI's mission—promoting democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform—that deserve attention yet are often neglected by mainstream media.

Examining everyday life and the dramatically altered rural landscape, George Georgiou captures the effect of rapid modernization and urbanization on Turkey's national psyche.

In Nigeria, Ed Kashi battled extreme conditions in order to tell the story of half a century of oil exploration and production and its devastating consequences in the Niger Delta.

Dana Popa's photographs and interviews explore the situation of women from Moldova who survived sex trafficking and were able to return to their home country.

When most people have all but forgotten the Rwandan genocide, Jonathan Torgovnik uses portraits and text of women raped during the genocide and their subsequent children to remind the world of the legacy and lasting scars that remain as a society attempts to rebuild.

The exhibit runs December 9, 2008, through August 2009, at OSI's Washington, D.C., office.

Reception

An opening reception for the exhibit will be held at OSI-Washington, D.C., December 9 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

To RSVP, please click here. Space is limited; please respond by December 3.

Online Exhibition

For more information about the exhibit—including artist statements, biographies, and online photo galleries—view Moving Walls 14 online.