Open Society Foundations’s 20th ‘Moving Walls’ Exhibition

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Moving Walls — and Minds

With a new exhibition space and improved Web site, the Open Society Foundations’s “Moving Walls” series offers the public greater access to in-depth humanitarian documentary photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/moving-walls-and-minds/

It was never easy to finance in-depth social documentary photography, or to get it widely shown. But it has become even more difficult in the past decade, as media backing for serious photo stories has virtually disappeared.

Which is why the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project has become a lifeline. Through its ground-breaking “Moving Walls” exhibition series — as well as grants that finance individual projects and innovative displays — it has sustained documentarians over the last 15 years.