Location: United States

Location: United States

A building with a mural on it
Moving Walls 25
Across la Tierra
Layqa Nuna Yawar
James Jean and Patrice Worthy wearing face paint and traditional clothing
Moving Walls 25
After Migration
Walé Oyéjidé
A man with a walker in the middle of a rural road after a tornado.
Moving Walls 3
Aging in America
Ed Kashi
A mother in a wheelchair with a toddler on a bed.
Moving Walls 9
Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege in America
Rickie Solinger
Four teenage girls outside with a stroller.
Moving Walls 5
Beyond Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York
Régina Monfort
Aerial photograph of border fence
Moving Walls 22
Blue Sky Days
Tomas van Houtryve
Two men walking along the border.
Moving Walls 15
Borderlands: The United States–Mexico Divide
Kai Wiedenhöfer
Piles of paper behind woman at desk.
Moving Walls 17
Bureaucratics
Jan Banning
A father in a car feeds a child and holds another.
Moving Walls 10
Dads
Stephen Shames
Workers on small boats.
Moving Walls 12
Diamond Matters
Kadir van Lohuizen
A student in a graduation cap and gown.
Moving Walls 3
East Harlem Revisited
Bruce Davidson
A ritual procession of people in costume.
Moving Walls 3
Feeling the Spirit
Chester Higgins, Jr.
A woman wearing virtual reality goggles and headphones
Moving Walls 25
Fractured Connections
FRPxTN
A family with a man on the phone, women, and children.
Moving Walls 7
From Guerrero to Gringolandia and Back: Day Labor, Family, the New Global Economy
Jon Lowenstein
Close up with hand of volunteer and face of patient.
Moving Walls 17
Grace Before Dying
Lori Waselchuk
A hand holding two small photographs.
Moving Walls 13
Guantánamo: Pictures from Home
Margot Herster
Polaroid pictures with writing on them.
Moving Walls 24
I AM, We the People
Reentry Think Tank
Woman with hair down.
Moving Walls 13
I Am: Self Portraits of Young Women in Transition
Friends of Island Academy and the International Center of Photography
A homeless man in a corridor with a “White House” sign.
Moving Walls 12
In the Shadow of Power: Poverty in Washington, D.C.
Kike Arnal
Dread Scott standing while being sprayed by high-pressure water jets.
Moving Walls 24
in this society, on this earth, in this day
Dread Scott
Couple with hand on the stomach
Moving Walls 18
Invisible: Homeless LGBT Youth
Samantha Box
Soldier with row of lights.
Moving Walls 16
Iraq Perspectives
Benjamin Lowy
Man with suit, white shirt, no tie, beard.
Moving Walls 15
Iraqi Detainees: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Ordeals
Chris Bartlett
An armed man on a bunk bed in front of a landscape.
Moving Walls 6
Islamia: A Journey Among Muslims
Abbas
A teenage boy’s profile with two more viewed through a window.
Moving Walls 4
Juvenile Justice
Joseph Rodriguez
Face in mirror, person on bunk bed in background.
Moving Walls 17
Juvies: A Collaborative Portrait of High-Risk Juvenile Offenders
Ara Oshagan
Church pews with flag.
Moving Walls 14
Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
Katrina Media Fellows, Salimah Ali, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Keith Calhoun, Gerald Cyrus, Collette V. Fournier, Russell K. Frederick, Stanley Greene, Wayne Lawrence, Kadir van Lohuizen, Chandra McCormick, John Pinderhughes, Joseph Rodriguez, Radcliffe Roye, Frank Stewart, Shawn Walker, Clarence Williams, Michael Williamson
Men carrying hoes escorted by a guard on horseback.
Moving Walls 2
Life Inside the Prison Boom
Andrew Lichtenstein
A pregnant woman lying on a bed.
Moving Walls 7
Money, Power, Respect: Real Life Stories from the Hip-Hop Generation
Brenda Ann Kenneally
Muslim men praying on the lawn of a house.
Moving Walls 6
New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York
Edward Grazda
A man eating on a fire escape.
Moving Walls 4
New York’s Chinatown
Chien-Chi Chang
Boys exercising in a prison yard.
Moving Walls 8
No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention
Steve Liss
A man walking by a group of kids.
Moving Walls 2
Off Broadway
Brenda Ann Kenneally
A child at a table with pills and food.
Moving Walls 11
On Borrowed Time: Growing Up With HIV/AIDS in the United States
Katja Heinemann
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Moving Walls 1
Paintings from East Harlem
Harlem Horizon Art Studio
Composite image of photographs of buildings and storefronts
Moving Walls 22
Plain Sight: The Visual Vernacular of NYPD Surveillance
Josh Begley
A woman standing in front of a table with piñatas nearby
Moving Walls 25
Project Luz
Sol Aramendi
Two men balancing on beams, holding hands.
Moving Walls 16
Promises and Lies: The Human Cost of the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Zalmaï
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Moving Walls 3
Property
Gary Fabiano
Soldier with prosthetic arm in front of a tree.
Moving Walls 10
Purple Hearts
Nina Berman
Three women sitting in lawn chairs in a cemetery.
Moving Walls 1
Requiems, Remembrance and Mourning
Bastienne Schmidt, Philippe Cheng
Teenage boy in leather jacket smoking a cigarette.
Moving Walls 13
Teenage America: Portraits of the Next Generation
Robin Bowman
Ruined chair beneath an ornate ceiling.
Moving Walls 9
The American War on Terror: Iraq
Sean Hemmerle
Children playing in grass
Moving Walls 22
The New Town
Andrew Hammerand
Shadows of three people on a wall.
Moving Walls 18
The Option of Last Resort
Gabriela Bulisova
Woman in a black and silver dress standing in front of an office backdrop.
Moving Walls 24
The Performance Review
Endia Beal
A large group of Muslim men.
Moving Walls 19
The Silence of “Others”
Bharat Choudhary
Demonstrators with flag.
Moving Walls 18
The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away
Abdi Roble
Twelve men in chains in front of a bus with two guards.
Moving Walls 8
The True Cost of Prison
Andrew Lichtenstein
Colored bars created by composite grid of thousands of photographs.
Moving Walls 22
Thousand Little Brothers
Hasan Elahi
A building on Magnolia Plantation in Louisiana, United States
Moving Walls 23
Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Jeanine Michna-Bales
A mother and daughter on a bed comforting a crying boy below.
Moving Walls 5
Urban Poverty: Birth and Death Certificates
Darcy Padilla
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Moving Walls 1
Various Works
Gigi Cohen
Telephone lines running along a highway.
Moving Walls 19
Views of the Reservation
John Willis, Dwayne Wilcox
Soldier in casket.
Moving Walls 16
War is Personal
Eugene Richards
Women at a protest, wearing shirts that say, "Justice for Erwiana."
Moving Walls 24
We Are Like Air
Xyza Cruz Bacani
A woman standing in front of the U.S. flag.
Moving Walls 24
When Living Is a Protest
Ruddy Roye

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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