Location: United States

Location: United States

A building with a mural on it
Moving Walls 25
Layqa Nuna Yawar
James Jean and Patrice Worthy wearing face paint and traditional clothing
Moving Walls 25
Walé Oyéjidé
A man with a walker in the middle of a rural road after a tornado.
Moving Walls 3
Ed Kashi
Four teenage girls outside with a stroller.
Moving Walls 5
Régina Monfort
Aerial photograph of border fence
Moving Walls 22
Tomas van Houtryve
Two men walking along the border.
Moving Walls 15
Kai Wiedenhöfer
Piles of paper behind woman at desk.
Moving Walls 17
Jan Banning
A father in a car feeds a child and holds another.
Moving Walls 10
Stephen Shames
Workers on small boats.
Moving Walls 12
Kadir van Lohuizen
A student in a graduation cap and gown.
Moving Walls 3
Bruce Davidson
A ritual procession of people in costume.
Moving Walls 3
Chester Higgins, Jr.
A woman wearing virtual reality goggles and headphones
Moving Walls 25
FRPxTN
Close up with hand of volunteer and face of patient.
Moving Walls 17
Lori Waselchuk
A hand holding two small photographs.
Moving Walls 13
Margot Herster
Polaroid pictures with writing on them.
Moving Walls 24
Reentry Think Tank
Woman with hair down.
Moving Walls 13
Friends of Island Academy and the International Center of Photography
Dread Scott standing while being sprayed by high-pressure water jets.
Moving Walls 24
Dread Scott
Couple with hand on the stomach
Moving Walls 18
Samantha Box
Soldier with row of lights.
Moving Walls 16
Benjamin Lowy
An armed man on a bunk bed in front of a landscape.
Moving Walls 6
Abbas
A teenage boy’s profile with two more viewed through a window.
Moving Walls 4
Joseph Rodriguez
Church pews with flag.
Moving Walls 14
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
Andrew Lichtenstein
Muslim men praying on the lawn of a house.
Moving Walls 6
Edward Grazda
A man eating on a fire escape.
Moving Walls 4
Chien-Chi Chang
A man walking by a group of kids.
Moving Walls 2
Brenda Ann Kenneally
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Moving Walls 1
Harlem Horizon Art Studio
A woman standing in front of a table with piñatas nearby
Moving Walls 25
Sol Aramendi
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Moving Walls 3
Gary Fabiano
Soldier with prosthetic arm in front of a tree.
Moving Walls 10
Nina Berman
Three women sitting in lawn chairs in a cemetery.
Moving Walls 1
Bastienne Schmidt, Philippe Cheng
Ruined chair beneath an ornate ceiling.
Moving Walls 9
Sean Hemmerle
Children playing in grass
Moving Walls 22
Andrew Hammerand
Shadows of three people on a wall.
Moving Walls 18
Gabriela Bulisova
Woman in a black and silver dress standing in front of an office backdrop.
Moving Walls 24
Endia Beal
A large group of Muslim men.
Moving Walls 19
Bharat Choudhary
Demonstrators with flag.
Moving Walls 18
Abdi Roble
Twelve men in chains in front of a bus with two guards.
Moving Walls 8
Andrew Lichtenstein
Colored bars created by composite grid of thousands of photographs.
Moving Walls 22
Hasan Elahi
A mother and daughter on a bed comforting a crying boy below.
Moving Walls 5
Darcy Padilla
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Moving Walls 1
Gigi Cohen
Telephone lines running along a highway.
Moving Walls 19
John Willis, Dwayne Wilcox
Soldier in casket.
Moving Walls 16
Eugene Richards
Women at a protest, wearing shirts that say, "Justice for Erwiana."
Moving Walls 24
Xyza Cruz Bacani
A woman standing in front of the U.S. flag.
Moving Walls 24
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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Due to precautionary measures related to the coronavirus, Moving Walls 25: Another Way Home will be closed until further notice.