The Engaged Photographer: The Open Society Institute and it’s Moving Walls
2010 May 24
Moving Walls is an photography exhibition put on by the Open Society Institute (part of the Soros Foundation network).
The series is all about communication through photography. It’s about storytelling through photography, really.
This from the website:
Moving Walls is a photographic exhibition series sponsored by the Open Society Institute. The series represents the transitional condition of open societies and the promotion and maintenance of democratic values. Nations often erect obstacles and barriers such as political oppression, economic instability, and racism. Yet, even as these walls are built, there are people committed to tearing them down. As the name of the exhibition series implies, Moving Walls is an artistic interpretation of this struggle.
Watch this video for a beautiful picture of the program:
Galleries like this appeal to me because they blur the lines of the aesthetic and ethical. There is the inherent goodness and helpfulness and artliness of art, and then there is the ability to extend art beyond itself. The classic adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is very true, but in many cases a picture is also worth a thousand lives, a thousand empowered women, a thousand educated children.
What do you think? Is storytelling in any medium as powerful as I believe it is (or at least can be)?
Link to Moving Walls
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