Exhibitions

Winter 2020 Exhibition

Women of Togo

The Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs in collaboration with Fordham University's Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center (GHIMC) introduces a new exhibit, Women of Togo, to the Refuge Gallery. The exhibit showcases work done by ART WORKS Project and Integrate Health (IH), centered around healthcare justice for the vulnerable population of women in Togo. GHIMC’s mission is to promote greater affordability and access to healthcare through research and dialog on efficient management of the global innovation processes in healthcare systems resulting in a reduction of disease burdens and the creation of healthier lives. Integrate Health, which currently serves over 140,000 people through thirteen health centers across northern Togo, works alongside governments and the local community to implement and study an integrated approach to strengthening primary healthcare delivery to achieve universal health coverage. ART WORKS Projects, whose agenda includes projects exposing genocide, extreme sexual violence, women’s rights, famine, child labor and human trafficking, ethnic cleansing, and tyranny, is a partner whose mission is to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights issues. The Women of Togo project by freelance photographer Zoe Rain aims to demonstrate that integrated care with well-developed primary care access can be key to improving outcomes and an actionable solution to improving the care given to vulnerable populations.

Zoe Rain is a freelance photographer from Seattle who is currently based in Chicago. With a deft eye and a wealth of composure earned from years working with music icons – first, at the age of 20, with hip-hop duo, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and later with artists like Chance The Rapper, Mary Lambert and Ed Sheeran – Rain has stood on the edge of musical history on many occasions. While Rain has honed her craft during late nights and in crowded stadiums across the world, she also exhibits an intimate touch, offering her quintessential sharp, clean-edged sensibility to magazines like Rolling Stone, editorial shoots for modeling portfolios, and honest photojournalism

Fall 2019 Exhibition

AFTERMATH: Photos by Bassam Khabieh

The exhibition Aftermath: Photos by Bassam Khabieh is a narrative on the resilient Syrians of Eastern Ghouta who persist amidst a volatile reality. The exhibition highlights resiliency through an assortment of human actions: first responders searching through rubble for survivors, children playing on makeshift merry-go-rounds made of remnant mortar shells, and school children studying in classrooms damaged by airstrikes.

Bassam Khabieh is a 28-year old, Syrian photojournalist covering daily news stories and events for Reuters in the Damascus countryside. After the Syrian Revolution began, Khabieh documented the violence using his mobile camera; as the war escalated, he was motivated to study and improve his skills as a photographer and came to produce seminal images. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Times, The Guardian, etc., depicting events like the Assad regime’s chemical attacks, bombings, and pictures from the daily lives of citizens under siege in the Damascus countryside.

Spring 2019 Exhibition

Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito's Sinaloa

The exhibition Defiant Spirits: Fernando Brito’s Sinaloa celebrated the cultural affluence amidst Sinaloa’s criminalized state, through the work of Fernando Brito. In stark contrast to the country’s violence, the exhibit showcases Sinaloa’s rich identities, histories, and traditions, capturing the underlying spiritual heritage and resilience amidst the nation’s discredited political institutions.

Fernando Brito is self-defined as “a citizen with a grudge.” The core of his work is predominantly concerned with social protest. Born and raised in Sinaloa, his signature photographs expose the raw violence of living in a state governed by the Cartel de Sinaloa’s savage crimes and the Mexican government.

Spring 2018 Exhibition

No Safe Harbor

The exhibition No Safe Harbor illuminated the illicit industry of sex trafficking in the United States with photographs by Getty Images photograph Robert Nickelsberg. The exhibit highlighted domestic sex trafficking through a variety of Angles: women and girls trapped in a cycle of exploitation; traffickers who fuel the trade; advocates and law enforcement officials tackling the problem; and survivors who have had the chance to start a new life.

Robert Nickelsberg is a photojournalist specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. He began his photojournalism career in the early 1980s based in El Salvador covering the political-military insurrections in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras

Fall 2017 Exhibition

Horrors of War: From Goya to Nachtwe

The exhibition Horrors of War: From Goya to Nachtwey highlighted the human condition and connection amidst atrocities of war. Francis de Goya's illustrations of 19th-century conflict in Spain were presented alongside photographs of modern-day warfare by world-renowned photographer James Nachtwey.

Francis de Goya was a Spanish painter whose work during this exhibit was from his Los desastres de la guerra [The Disasters of War] series. The series consists of 82 prints created between 1810 and 1820 showcasing the conflict between Spain and France.

James Nachtwey is a social justice photojournalist whose career began in 1976 when he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, when he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon and more.