To Heal a World
Description
TO HEAL A WORLD, from 16 November 2021 to 24 April 2022.
Humanitarian images entered people’s daily lives over a century ago and are now a fixture in today’s news. Such images often convey a sense of immediacy and certainty, setting a scene that allows for only one interpretation. Viewers think they fully understand the event in question without considering what lies just outside the frame. But the reality on the ground is always more complex than its representation, which is by nature merely a fragment.
TO HEAL A WORLD presents, in a variety of ways, more than 600 images dating from 1850 to the present. They include both public images used to communicate about humanitarian crises and more confidential ones, once reserved for internal use.
The works were carefully selected over the course of two years from a highly diverse yet little-known corpus of photos: the collections of the Museum, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). TO HEAL A WORLD was developed in association with the Rencontres d’Arles, an annual photography festival that hosted the exhibition in 2022.
Credits
© Notter+Vigne. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
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To Heal a World
16.11.2021 to 24.04.2022
Exhibition, At the museum
To Heal a World at the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
04.07.2022 to 25.09.2022
Exhibition, Off-site
To Heal a World by Pascal Hufschmid
Videos, Exhibitions
Preview of To Heal a World in Arles
Videos, Focus
Camp for civilian internees
Images, Exhibitions
Red Cross Society of Niger and the ICRC distributing aid
Images, Exhibitions
Silent march to commemorate six ICRC delegates killed on 17 December 1996
Images, Exhibitions
To Heal a World
Description
TO HEAL A WORLD, from 16 November 2021 to 24 April 2022.
Humanitarian images entered people’s daily lives over a century ago and are now a fixture in today’s news. Such images often convey a sense of immediacy and certainty, setting a scene that allows for only one interpretation. Viewers think they fully understand the event in question without considering what lies just outside the frame. But the reality on the ground is always more complex than its representation, which is by nature merely a fragment.
TO HEAL A WORLD presents, in a variety of ways, more than 600 images dating from 1850 to the present. They include both public images used to communicate about humanitarian crises and more confidential ones, once reserved for internal use.
The works were carefully selected over the course of two years from a highly diverse yet little-known corpus of photos: the collections of the Museum, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). TO HEAL A WORLD was developed in association with the Rencontres d’Arles, an annual photography festival that hosted the exhibition in 2022.
Credits
© Notter+Vigne. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.
Tags
ImagesExhibitionsLinked contents
To Heal a World
16.11.2021 to 24.04.2022
Exhibition, At the museum
To Heal a World at the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
04.07.2022 to 25.09.2022
Exhibition, Off-site
To Heal a World by Pascal Hufschmid
Videos, Exhibitions
Preview of To Heal a World in Arles
Videos, Focus
Camp for civilian internees
Images, Exhibitions
Red Cross Society of Niger and the ICRC distributing aid
Images, Exhibitions
Silent march to commemorate six ICRC delegates killed on 17 December 1996
Images, Exhibitions
