Enabling Repression, Exporting Surveillance, and Silencing Dissent
Privacy International leads a panel on the surveillance technology industry to mark the launch of a report on the sale of surveillance technologies to Central Asian governments.
View ArticleDocumenting the Human Cost of U.S. Immigration Policy
Photographer Brandon Thibodeaux discusses his visit to the Texas–Mexico border region to document the growing human cost of U.S. immigration policy.
View ArticleYoung Photographers Bring Post-Earthquake Haiti into Focus
Five years after Port-au-Prince was devastated, a new photography book documents one of its most famous streets.
View ArticleAmid Occupation, Life Goes On for Palestinians
Photographer Tanya Habjouqa’s pictures of Palestinian life reveal a world that’s far more diverse than the news would have you believe.
View ArticleFive Photographers Present Journeys Toward Freedom, Safety, and...
From the creative act of authorship to the formidable journey to escape slavery, the stories highlighted in the next installment of the Moving Walls photography series explore people in pursuit of new...
View ArticleExiled to Nowhere: Discussions on Intolerance and Inclusion in Burma
As part of the global tour of the photography exhibition Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya, this discussion focuses on the challenges and intolerance facing ethnic minorities in Burma.
View ArticleTargeted: A Conversation with Artists Hasan Elahi and Josh Begley
Join us for an artist talk with Hasan Elahi and Josh Begley, who use their art to reflect on post-9/11 racial profiling and surveillance culture.
View ArticleEnabling Repression, Exporting Surveillance, and Silencing Dissent
Privacy International leads a panel on the surveillance technology industry to mark the launch of a report on the sale of surveillance technologies to Central Asian governments.
View ArticleYoung Photographers Bring Post-Earthquake Haiti into Focus
Five years after Port-au-Prince was devastated, a new photography book documents one of its most famous streets.
View ArticleAmid Occupation, Life Goes On for Palestinians
Photographer Tanya Habjouqa’s pictures of Palestinian life reveal a world that’s far more diverse than the news would have you believe.
View ArticleFive Photographers Present Journeys Toward Freedom, Safety, and...
From the creative act of authorship to the formidable journey to escape slavery, the stories highlighted in the next installment of the Moving Walls photography series explore people in pursuit of new...
View ArticleExiled to Nowhere: Discussions on Intolerance and Inclusion in Burma
As part of the global tour of the photography exhibition Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya, this discussion focuses on the challenges and intolerance facing ethnic minorities in Burma.
View ArticleBrooklyn Outdoor Exhibit Features Two Open Society Photographers
A Brooklyn photography festival features immersive installations about U.S. Superfund sites and Nigerian romance novelists.
View ArticleThe Role of Arts and Culture in an Open Society
By supporting artistic endeavors, we help make manifest our most ambitious goals and ideals.
View ArticleOpening Reception for Moving Walls 23: Journeys
Moving Walls 23: Journeys is an exhibition that highlights the spaces—both physical and psychological—inhabited by people pursuing freedom, security, and a more self-determined future.
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From Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad
20151021-michnabales-mw23-collection-001Follow the Drinking GourdJefferson County, Indiana, United States, 2013“For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom / If you follow the drinking...
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Diagram of the Heart
20151021-gordon-mw23-collection-001Farida Ado Gaci, 27, a romance novelist living in Northern Nigeria, at her window. She is one of a small but significant group of Nigerian women authors of books...
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Texting Syria
20151021-maloney-mw23-collection-001Thirty minutes from the Syria–Lebanon border, 16 families seeking refuge from ongoing conflict in Homs, Syria, live in tents erected inside an abandoned...
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In Transit: Columbia Records, Athens
20151021-kouris-mw23-collection-001Sofian, a migrant from Algeria, sits inside the deserted Columbia Records building. Sofian lived in the building for six months, eventually returning to his homeland...
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