PICTURES OF WAR

Friday, August 13, 2010

Missing lives - photo exhibition

 Missing Lives


British photographer Nick Danziger and Canadian writer Rory MacLean joined the efforts in documenting  the plight of 15 families selected among thousands still waiting for news of the fate of their loved ones from the countries of fromer Yugoslavia, entangled in the regional conflicts during 1990s.  The efforts culminated in a book, which promotes the work the International Committee of the Red Cross and other organizations have been doing since 1991 to trace missing persons in the Balkans. Now the exhibition, which was produced to accompany the publication is travelling through Europe and North America during 2010-11.

The selection of the stories from the book are accessible here.
See Nick Danziger's video interview for The Economist here.

The exhibition will be available in :
London, United Kingdom, from 7 to 26 July 2010, at the Observation Platform, Riverside Walkway (Gabriel's Wharf), South Bank.

Belgrade: 23 August to 8 September 2010 – Kalemegdan Fortress, in front of Cvijeta Zuzoric Gallery

Sarajevo: 30 August to 12 September 2010 – Trg Djece Sarajeva

Pristina: 10 to 24 September 2010 *

Mostar: 20 September to 4 October 2010 *

Banja Luka: 11 to 25 October 2010 *

Zagreb: 1 to 15 November 2010 – Trg Strossmayer

Strasbourg: 4 to 8 October 2010 – Building of the Council of Europe

Brussels: 25 October to 6 November 2010 – Place du Luxembourg

Ottawa: January to April 2011 – Canadian War Museum

Bern: August to September 2011 *

* Venue to be confirmed

Friday, March 5, 2010

Humanity in war- war in the pictures exhibition

Humanity in war: frontline photography since 1860 

Last Wednesday, 3 March  ICRC opened to the public at its Museum in Geneva a remarkable exhibition Humanity in War, which represents a photographic record of warfare over the last 150 years. In the past year or so the exhibition was displayed around the world as a part of 60th Anniversary of Geneva Conventions' celebrations. The brought- home exhibition will be available for the public until 25 July 2010.
From the American Civil War to the conflicts of the early twenty-first century, the photographer has been a constant presence, preserving moments of courage, dignity, defiance and hope amidst pain and suffering. The exhibition also traces the evolution of the International Committee of the Red Cross since its inception and it aspires to remind all of us of the importance of exercising humanity. This exhibition presents a selection of images from the ICRC book Humanity in War: Frontline Photography since 1860. The photos are all part of the ICRC collection, which contains more than 100,000 items dating from the 1850s to the present.