Testimonials – Views: The exhibition travels to Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale
The photo exhibition entitled “Testimonies – Views”, 1971 – 2021 Doctors Without Borders and Magnum, 50 years in the fieldtravels to Thessaloniki and is hosted within it Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2021 in Former Nursery SchoolPier A ‘, port of Thessaloniki, from January 27 until March 20, 2022.
For 50 years, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Magnum Photos agency have been covering the same areas of intervention: war zones, humanitarian crises, natural disasters, emergencies. The two organizations share the same values and principles and especially their independence.
The 50th anniversary of Doctors Without Borders is an opportunity for a retrospective exhibition that captures the cooperation of the two organizations over the decades. The exhibition entitled “Testimonies – Views” includes a selection of photographs from the archives of the agency Magnum Photos, which document the main humanitarian crises and the work of Médecins Sans Frontières, from 1971 until today. The result is as narrative as it is visual.
The exhibition includes photos from the first actions of Médecins Sans Frontières in a war zone in Lebanon in 1976, until the crisis in Runa in 1994, the war in Syria in 2011, the great earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the battle against Ebola in Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.
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The exhibition is part of the Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2021 program MOMus-Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki and is supported by the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Photographers
Abbas (IR), Enri Canaj (AL), Raymond Depardon (FR), Thomas Dworzak (DE), Stuart Franklin (UK), Hiroji Kubota (JP), Yael Martinez (MX), Lorenzo Meloni (IT), Paolo Pellegrin ( IT), Gilles Peress (FR), Chris Steele-Perkins (UK), Cristina Garcia Rodero (ES), Moises Saman (ES / US), Jerome Sessini (FR), Newsha Tavakolian (IR)
Editing for the Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2021: Iraklis Papaioannou
Photo: Yael Martinez-Magnum Photos