Moving Walls 11, OSI's documentary photography exhibit, is on view beginning September 15 at OSI’s Washington, D.C., office. The exhibit first opened at OSI-New York in December 2005.

With photographs from four continents, Moving Walls 11 captures the breadth of the Open Society Institute’s mission. At the same time, the exhibit’s focus on Africa reflects OSI’s growing commitment to supporting open society in a region associated by many with only war, poverty, and AIDS. By exploring the issues around resource wealth, ethnic cleansing and displacement, and the transition from conflict to peace, the photographs give visual meaning to some of the underlying reasons for the challenges many countries in Africa face.

Featured Artists

Marcus Bleasdale: The Rape of a Nation—Natural Resource Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tim Hetherington: No Condition Is Permanent—Liberia in Transition
Lynsey Addario: Darfur in Exile
Katja Heinemen: On Borrowed Time—Growing up with HIV/AIDS in the United States
Sara Terry: Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace
Julien Chatelin: Lhasa: The Lost Soul of Tibet

Moving Walls, a travelling photographic exhibition series sponsored by the Open Society Institute, is an artistic interpretation of the struggles of people committed to tearing down the barriers of political oppression, economic instability and racism. The documentary photographs reflect the transitional conditions of open societies and the promotion and maintenance of democratic values. Moving Walls was established by the Open Society Institute in 1997. The work included is selected, by committee, from a number of submitted portfolios.