Unpacking seven decades of photojournalism through the World Press Photo archive in six themes: women weeping, fire and smoke, MEN RESCUING, Black Skin, Silhouettes and Shadows, and The Wow Moment.
Learn MoreRenewing the Spirit of San Francisco commemorates the historic signing of the UN Charter on June 26, 1945 (which heralded a new era of global cooperation and a decisive turn towards peace) and explores the Charter’s legacy and enduring significance in creating a more stable, equitable future.
Learn MoreThe empty bedrooms of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023, remain frozen in time—some still bearing the marks of violence and struggle from the day that ignited the Israel-Hamas war.
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Gaza – through the lens of the journalists who have been killed.
Learn MoreFinding Home is a project about the reestablishment of the 273 students and staff of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Portugal.
Learn MoreDespite facing intense surveillance from China, the residents of Thitu island serve as a symbol of resistance for the Philippines.
Learn MoreNow in its third iteration, Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia how restages intimate Black girl narratives made through the reifying lens of Black women and genderqueer artists and the real-time experiences and perspectives of Black girls themselves while exploring the powerful connections between Black girlhood open space, and the natural world.
Learn MoreBroken Promises offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan, and the devastating consequences of the rollback in their rights following the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Learn MorePhotojournalists use cameras to record and relay newsworthy events to the public. Whether it’s at someone’s home, a public sidewalk, a state capitol, or a conflict zone, photojournalists encounter a range of situations for which they must immediately decide what to include and exclude in a photograph. Every photo offers a multitude of details that can be investigated with a close read. How often do you make the effort to not just look at a photo, but rather look into it, asking yourself, “What is this photo doing, and how is it doing it?” This exhibition provides tools and questions to better understand photographs by engaging in this type of close reading.
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Where the Birds Never Sing reenacts the memories of survivors from the 1979 Marichjhapi massacre in Sundarbans, West Bengal, India, weaving together perspectives on a painful history that faces slow erasure from collective memory.
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New York Times photographers in Ukraine have captured the horrors of war.
Learn MoreThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) coordinates the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises.
Learn MoreAmerica may be ending the 20-year “endless war,” but the way it is leaving Afghanistan will certainly mean the start of another phase of fighting in this war-torn country.
Learn MoreFrom Bangladeshi garment factories to Portland’s Black Lives Matter protests, from Algeria’s streets to Hong Kong’s universities, Frontlines in Focus highlights the uprisings shaking our world this year, and the independent image makers whose roles are especially vital, during this time of collective isolation.
Never before have journalists been more vilified as enemies of the people, or their work so readily dismissed and brushed away as fake news.
This project was born of a determination to focus attention on a conflict that has raged since 2015, but received little notice, even as it caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Engage in a conversation with Syrian photojournalists on the successes and challenges of documenting the last decade of war in Syria.
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