Open Society Documentary Photography Project

02/05/2020

If you plan to be in the D.C. area on Tuesday, February 18, please join Moving Walls fellows Anita Pouchard Serra Koral Carballo and Jessica Ávalos for a bilingual community event "Home Crosses Borders: A conversation about Immigration in the Community" at The Potter's House.

Join us for a bilingual, community event at The Potter's House! ¡Acompáñanos en un evento comunitario bilingüe en The Potter's House!

01/17/2020

Time magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, Shahidul Alam, talks about photography, activism, and the right to expression.

10/28/2019

Moving Walls grantee Walé Oyéjidé will discuss his work in conversation with photographer, author, critic and Harvard University professor Teju Cole at the Harvard Art Museums on Tuesday, November 12.

09/12/2019

“Without art and activism talking about freedom and emancipation from white supremacy, the status quo that is grinding up people’s lives will continue.”

Moving Walls grantee Dread Scott discusses his upcoming two-day performance-art piece in New Orleans, “Slave Rebellion Reenactment,” in this feature by Vanity Fair.

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising in a provocative two-day performance-art piece staged by artist Dread Scott.

07/03/2019

Congratulations to Magnum Foundation Fellow Arlene Mejorado for her selection as one of the newest cohort of Latinx arts leaders participating in the NALAC Leadership Institute!

06/18/2019

Congratulations to Moving Walls photographer Jodi Bieber for winning the 2019 CAP (Contemporary African Photography) prize. Her project focuses on "young people and young adults from various social classes in Johannesburg who talk about their dreams, plans, hopes and ideas...The interactive component involved in the work’s creation corresponds to the collaborative approach to the acquisition of the models, and the presentation of the pictures as slide shows or posters in schools or sometimes in a women's prison."

Jodi's previous work titled "Survivors: Domestic Violence in South Africa" was featured in our Moving Walls 12 exhibition.

To read more about Jodi's project follow the link below

Congrats Jodi!

AND THE WINNERS OF THE CAP PRIZE 2019 ARE…

06/06/2019

Este sábado 8 de junio, vengan a compartir en un panel de reflexión sobre colaboración, coautoría, y compromiso social en el arte, con varios artistas en la exposición actual de Moving Walls. El evento es gratis y en español, y se requiere RSVP: https://osf.to/2wGA03C

Presentando Anita Pouchard Serra, Koral Carballo, Jessica Ávalos, y Sol Aramendi, y moderado por Cinthya SantosBrio.

06/03/2019

Moving Walls 25 fellows Family Reunions Project x Tierra Narrative present: “On Returning”. An evening of poetry readings and discussion about TPS and its effect on American migration. The conversation will be moderated by poet/curator/artist Óscar Moisés Díaz featuring authors Dalia Elhassan, Asiya Wadud, and Javier Zamora.

05/31/2019

"On Returning: Diasporic Chronologies, Appendices, and the Present Political"

Please join Moving Walls 25 fellows Family Reunions Project x Tierra Narrative for evening of poetry readings and discussion about TPS and its effect on American migration. The conversation will be moderated by poet/curator/artist Óscar Moisés Díaz featuring authors Dalia Elhassan, Asiya Wadud, and Javier Zamora.

Wednesday June 12, 2019 at 5:30 PM.

Four poets with connections to countries with Temporary Protected Status explore contexts and ramifications of current U.S immigration policy.

04/24/2019

"Little by little, we will stop seeing the migrant as a distant person, and begin to think that these life decisions and the journeys that they take could be ours and even that of an ancestor."

Moving Walls Fellows Anita Pouchard Serra, Koral Carballo & Jessica Ávalos discuss the conception and reception of their collaborative project, Welcome to Intipucá City, now on view at Open Society Foundations–New York.

Interview by Veronica Sanchis Bencomo for PHmuseum.

In their collaborative project Welcome to Intipucá City, photographers Anita Pouchard Serra and Koral Carballo explore the story of a small town in southern El Salvador where immigration to the United States has become a rooted part of the community’s beliefs and customs.

04/22/2019

"Depending on what preconceptions about migration issues viewers bring to the exhibition, the depth and care infused into the works can operate in different registers for conveying representation, critical (un)learning, and expanding and reshaping the internal image indexes that guide how we interpret the world around us."

Read more of the new in-depth review of the Moving Walls 25 / Another Way Home exhibition written by Zachary Rosen for Africa is A Country at the link below.

Layqa Nuna Yawar, Sol Aramendi, Anita Pouchard Serra, Koral Carballo, Jessica Ávalos, Tomás Miguel Carro, Génesis Mancheren Abaj, Kenia R Guillen, Family Reunions Project, Omar Imam, Thana Faroq, Wale Oyejide

The photo series Another Way Home captures how migration effects families, communities and individuals—those who travel and those who stay behind.

04/19/2019

As part of their Reimagining the Image series, please join us at ICP Museum on May 1 (6:30-8pm) for a discussion with Moving Walls Fellow Wale Oyejide about his ongoing project "After Migration."

Join ICP and the Open Society Foundations for a special evening with designer and art director Walé Oyéjidé. Oyéjidé will share excerpts from his project After ...