The Performance Review
20170925-beal-mw24-collection-001Martinique, 2015“During my experience in corporate America, I was treated equally as a minority woman. I was able to build relationships with professionals and share my...
View ArticleBook Launch—War Is Only Half the Story: Ten Years of the Aftermath Project
War Is Only Half the Story celebrates a decade of the Aftermath Project's support of photography exploring what it takes to rebuild lives, restore society, and address the lingering impact of war.
View ArticleMoving Walls 24: Exhibition & Grant
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is soliciting submissions for a new joint exhibition and grant opportunity for Moving Walls 24, opening in October 2017 at Open Society Foundations–New...
View ArticleImages and Democracy: Photography and Shaping Contemporary South African Culture
Join us for a conversation with Market Photo Workshop’s Lekgetho Makola , artist Lebohang Kganye, and Africa is a Country’s Sean Jacobs about the role of photography in shaping memory and contemporary...
View ArticleAnnouncing Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home
Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home is an exhibition and fellowship honoring artists, journalists, and creative technologists who use documentary practice to explore the topic of migration.
View ArticleOpening Reception for Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home
Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home brings together eight projects led by 13 visionary artists, journalists, and creative technologists dedicated to re-envisioning the topic of migration through...
View ArticleLive, Love, Refugee
20180925-imam-mw25-collection-001“For a moment, I felt like we were talking to a car mechanic. We are refugees, but still humans.” —Faten, 35 years old, LebanonYassin and Faten are from Homs, and they...
View ArticleWelcome to Intipucá City
20180925-akj-mw25-collection-001Claudia Rivera, 40 years old, is a doctor. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1983 when she was seven years old to escape the civil war. After living for many...
View ArticleThe Passport
20180925-faroq-mw25-collection-001Fady is from Palestine and currently an emigrant to the United Kingdom. His portrait is accompanied by a handwritten letter addressed to the artist.London, United...
View ArticleAfter Migration
20180925-oyejide-mw25-collection-001Gitteh B., originally from Guinea.Florence, Italy, 2016.Gitteh left Guinea and sought asylum in southern Italy. While standing in a Florentine alleyway, he recounted...
View ArticleMoving Walls 25
About Moving Walls 25On display at Open Society Foundations–New York from September 2018 to July 2019.Another Way Home is the 25th iteration of the Open Society Documentary Photography Project’s...
View ArticleThe Right to Grow Old
20180925-ayuso-mw25-collection-001“Luis asked me for direction. I told him, ‘Man, it’s your picture. How do you want the old you to remember the young you?’ He blinked hard and breathed, and his face...
View ArticleAcross la Tierra
20180925-yawar-mw25-collection-001Installation view of Across la Tierra.The Open Society Foundations, New York, New York, August 2018.This mural was designed by Layqa Nuna Yawar in collaboration with...
View ArticleProject Luz
0180925-aramendi-mw25-collection-001Veronica Ramirez is a founder and workshop leader with Mujeres en Movimiento, a self-organized group that explores the use of dance, art, ancestral remedies, and...
View ArticleFractured Connections
20180925-frp-mw25-collection-001A Family Reunions Project participant explores the neighborhood where she once lived in Puebla, Mexico.Paterson, New Jersey, United States, 2017.©...
View ArticleFilm Screening and Discussion—When “Do-Gooders” Do Harm
Last month, ProPublica broke a shocking expose about sexual abuse in an American charity in Liberia. We will explore what happens when good intentions among NGOs collide with the realities of operating...
View ArticleRahima Gambo
Year2017Rahima Gambo's project combines the aesthetics of photography and sculpture to reflect on northern Nigerian women and the increasing use of female suicide bombers by Boko Haram.Her multilayered...
View ArticleEric Gyamfi
Year2017Eric Gyamfi is a lens-based artist living in Accra, Ghana, who uses his work as a window to explore and help bridge realities that exist both inside and outside of his own experiences. He is...
View ArticleStephanie Mercedes
Year2017Stephanie Mercedes is an Argentine/American artist who lives and works across the Americas. Her research-based art practice intersects with the law and social justice, and questions the purity...
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