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Call Me Heena
20151021-sharmin-mw23-collection-001“I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me I am a man, and my soul tells me I am a woman.”—Heena, 51Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2012© Shahria...
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Over a hundred photos taken by Afghan photographers convey the message that ending war in the country cannot come at any price.
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A photo installation explores how refugees separated from friends and family manage to remain connected.
View ArticleKatja Heinemann
Katja Heinemann, a photographer and longform journalist, is producing a multimedia documentary that investigates the interconnection of migration and social media use among young Afghan refugees in...
View ArticleReception for Ebola Through the Lens
Join us at the Open Society Foundations office for a reception for the photography exhibit Ebola Through the Lens in advance of its New York debut at Photoville.
View ArticleA Photo Contest Captures Life with Ebola in West Africa
Traumatized yet resilient, the region is rebounding after the outbreak that claimed 10,000 lives.
View ArticleOpening Reception for Urban Now: City Life in Congo
Urban Now: City Life in Congo is an exhibition that explores different urban sites in Congo through the media of photography and video.
View ArticleA Photo Exhibit Explores Life in the “Urban Now”
The collaboration between a photographer and an anthropologist takes viewers inside Congo’s urban spaces.
View ArticleMoving Walls 22 / Watching You, Watching Me Opening Reception in Berlin
The 22nd installation of Open Society Foundations' Moving Walls exhibition series opens in Berlin at the Museum für Fotografie.
View ArticleState Surveillance and the Visual Landscape of War
Tomas van Houtryve discusses his work presented as part of Watching You, Watching Me, the 22nd edition of the Documentary Photography Project's Moving Walls exhibition.
View ArticleMoving Walls 24: Exhibition & Grant
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is soliciting submissions for a new joint exhibition and grant for Moving Walls 24, opening in October 2017 at Open Society Foundations–New York.
View ArticleBook Launch—Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent
Everyday Africa features photos that find beauty in ordinary life in Africa—and shift perceptions from sensationalized extremes to a more textured reality.
View ArticleAnnouncing the 24th Moving Walls Exhibit, Here We Are: Visual Resistance and...
Here We Are is an exhibition that celebrates 10 individual and collective artists, journalists, documentarians, and advocates who engage with art and documentary practice as forms of resistance.
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Signs of Your Identity
20170925-zalcman-mw24-collection-001Deedee LeratMarieval Indian Residential School1967–1970“When I was eight, Mormons swept across Saskatchewan. So I was taken out of residential school and sent to a...
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Luz del Día: Copyrighting the Light of Day
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in this society, on this earth, in this day
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Education Is Forbidden
20170925-gambo-mw24-collection-001Rukkaya, 17, senior secondary school student at Shehu Garbai Secondary School.Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2016.© Rahima Gambo20170925-gambo-mw24-collection-002Rashida, 17,...
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When Living Is a Protest
20170925-roye-mw24-collection-001June 26, 2016ActivistNew York, New York“I came with my fiancé and for the cause.”Tonyé-d’mitria Vickers held the hand of Lamar Harris with what I can only describe as...
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