Moving Walls
Katharina Hesse portrays North Koreans who have fled a repressive regime and entered China. In this work, she juxtaposes black and white portraits of the refugees with color landscapes that reference their border crossings.
© Katharina Hesse
Donald Weber captures the intangible machinations of state power in Ukraine by photographing police interrogation rooms, a setting not often designed for fairness, but to elicit guilty pleas.
© Donald Weber
In quiet and subtle panoramic landscapes, Ian Teh documents the effects of modern China’s rampant development and assertive economic drive on the Yellow River.
© Ian Teh/Panos/Agence VU’
Fernando Moleres documents young men and boys imprisoned with adults and awaiting trial in Sierra Leone’s Pademba Road Prison.
© Fernando Moleres
Yuri Kozyrev captures the citizen uprisings in the Arab world, namely in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and Libya. In 2012, he returns to several of these countries to record the aftermath of the protests.
© Yuri Kozyrev/NOOR
Highlights of Collections
Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition produced by the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project. Moving Walls is exhibited at our offices in New York and Washington, D.C., and includes five to seven discrete bodies of work.
Since its inception in 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 170 artists whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues that coincide with the Open Society mission.
Are You a Photographer?
The Moving Walls exhibition honors the brave and difficult work that photographers undertake globally in their visual documentation of complex social and political issues.
Plan a Visit
The Moving Walls 20 exhibit is open to the public from May 8 through December 13, 2013. Visiting hours are Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.