Location: Asia

Location: Asia

A bicyclist in front of a building.
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Edward Grazda
Men selling birdcages.
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Steve McCurry
A girl holds a letter in front of her face.
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Lori Grinker
Aerial photograph of border fence
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Tomas van Houtryve
Person hiding their face in a shirt.
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Katharina Hesse
Three boys in front of a power plant.
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Antonin Kratochvil
Piles of paper behind woman at desk.
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Jan Banning
Portrait of a Bangladeshi hijra woman
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Shahria Sharmin
Man and table in front of water, blue shirt.
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James Pomerantz
A large pile of circuit boards in front of trees.
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Edward Burtynsky
A man stretching a partially missing arm.
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Mark Leong
Workers on small boats.
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Kadir van Lohuizen
Htein Lin raising his hand with writing on it.
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James Mackay
Man with umbrella in front of dome.
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George Georgiou
Empty bed with blue wall.
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Mari Bastashevski
Collage of nine images with color portrait at center.
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James Nubile
Students at gym class
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Diana Markosian
Armchair and antennas on a rooftop, with cityscape in the background
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Mark Leong
A crowd cheering and waving flags at a political rally.
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Jan Dago
An armed man on a bunk bed in front of a landscape.
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Abbas
Three people wearing hooded sweatshirts seated at computers
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Mari Bastashevski, Privacy International
Boys in gangster outfits.
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Julien Chatelin
Girl with woman carrying bricks
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Heidi Bradner
A view of many wooden crates.
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Carl De Keyzer
Tree with man and red flag.
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Tomas van Houtryve
Shoulders and lips of female soldier.
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Philippe Chancel
An image of a butterfly next to an image of a girl.
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Rena Effendi
A woman kissing a framed icon.
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Mary Berridge
A row of men standing in the mountains.
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Jonas Bendiksen
Two men preparing a syringe.
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John Ranard
A group of young monks, some in a room, some outside a window.
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Teru Kuwayama
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Gigi Cohen
Women at a protest, wearing shirts that say, "Justice for Erwiana."
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Xyza Cruz Bacani

Moving Walls is an annual exhibition series that explores a variety of social justice and human rights issues through documentary practice, and is produced by Open Society’s Culture and Art program. Moving Walls is exhibited at our offices in New York, London, and Washington, D.C., and includes five to nine discrete bodies of work.

Since 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 200 photographers and artists whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues.

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