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curates and circulates several high-quality photographic exhibitions
on themes concerning human rights. One exhibition is created
by children, another by adult non-professionals, while yet
another is the work of one of the world’s most celebrated
professionals. The exhibitions have appeared on almost every
continent, in venues ranging from health centers to human
rights festivals to major museums. All of the exhibitions
are available for rental, and often the photographer or curator
is available for conferences. Please contact Alicia Kuri for
more information at office@pixelpress.org
or call 212.929.2160.
Chasing the Dream: Youth Faces
of the Millennium Development Goals
Profiling in photographs and text the lives of eight young
people living in eight countries, this exhibition provides
insight into the realities they face as they chase their dreams
for a better future. Chasing the Dream is a United Nations
interagency initiative that explores how each of the eight
Millennium Development Goals, commonly accepted by all 189
UN members as the framework for measuring progress towards
a better world by the year 2015, can be accomplished to allow
these highly motivated young people not only to survive, but
eventually to flourish. The exhibition also includes spectacular
photographs and writings by young people from around world,
showing us and our leaders a bit more about what it’s
like to be a young person in the world today. Chasing the
Dream inaugurated at the UN headquarters in New York on August
12, 2005 and will begin a world tour in 2006. Please visit
its companion website, www.chasingdream.org,
for more information.
The
End of Polio, photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Featuring the photographs of Brazilian photographer Sebastião
Salgado, this exhibition documents the lives of people with
polio in five countries and focuses on the enormous global
effort to eradicate the disease. Sponsored by UNICEF, WHO,
Rotary International and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the exhibition has been used to fundraise to end
polio and as a morale booster for health workers in several
countries. It has a companion book, The End of Polio, published
in four languages, and a website, www.endofpolio.org.
Through the Eyes of
Children: The Rwanda Project
Consisting of extraordinary photographs made from disposable
cameras by Rwandan children who have been orphaned by the
genocide, these vibrant ink-jet prints show a vision that
is both curious and optimistic. The exhibition was in the
United Nations lobby for that organization’s tenth-anniversary
commemoration of the genocide, and it has been seen in Africa,
Europe and throughout the United States as well as touring
with the feature film Hotel Rwanda. www.rwandaproject.org
Photographs by Iraqi
Civilians, 2004
In 2004 the Daylight Foundation gave disposable
cameras to non-professional photographers in Iraq with the
goal of having them send a message to the people of the United
States as to what is going on in their country. A man who
lives in a garbage dump, a dentist and a young college student
are among those who made the pictures. Featured on CNN’s
Aaron Brown program and televised in several other countries,
the photographs show a very different Iraq from the one accessible
to professional photojournalists and can be viewed here.
Without Sanctuary: Photographs
of Lynching in the United States
Organized by James Allen, author of the volume
of the same name, this ink-jet exhibition reproduces some
of the most unsettling images that speak to a history of violence
against African-Americans. The prints are scanned from the
original vintage postcards. Without Sanctuary has appeared
in Marseilles for an international human rights festival,
and in Sweden at a conference concentrating on documentary
issues. All of the photographs from Without Sanctuary,
book or exhibition, are available for licensing for books,
films, and other usages through PixelPress.
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