OSI Photography Show Open to Public

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Moving Walls 8, a documentary photography exhibit featuring the work of five artists and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru, will be open to the public Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 12-3 p.m., beginning June 28, 2004, at OSI-Washington, D.C.

Moving Walls 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.

The eighth Moving Walls features the work of Jonas Bendiksen, Héléne Caux, Jeffrey Ladd, Andrew Lichtenstein, Steve Liss, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru. The photographs document a wide range of subjects including the immense repercussions of America’s prison system and the continuing tensions among ethnic groups in war-ravaged Kosovo.

Moving Walls was established by the Open Society Institute in 1997. The work included in the show is selected, by an OSI committee, from a number of submitted portfolios.

The exhibit is open to the public from June 28 through November 15 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 12-3 p.m, at OSI-Washington, D.C., 1120 19th Street NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C.

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The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grantmaking foundation based in New York City that serves as the hub of the Soros foundations network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations in more than 50 countries. OSI's Washington office focuses on domestic civil and criminal justice reforms, civil liberties, and human rights abuses, among other issues.