71/21: Médecins Sans Frontières, 50 years of humanity
An information meeting (volunteering / recruitment) will be held on Tuesday November 22 at 17 p.m. at the Saint-Denis Droit-Lettres BU.
The Droit-Lettres BU is pleased to offer you, from November 8 to December 10, the exhibition “71/21: Médecins Sans Frontières, 50 years of humanity”
This exhibition retraces the significant events in the history of Médecins sans Frontières through a series of emblematic photos, captured by committed photographers.
Since its creation in 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has crossed paths with many renowned photographers keen to report on the fate of populations struck by war, affected by epidemics or natural disasters, forced to migrate, excluded from healthcare. . Driven by a common desire to document these complex situations, MSF photographers and teams operate in the same areas of intervention.
2021 marks MSF’s 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the organization offers a selection of photos among the most representative and most striking in its history, and gives the floor to some of the photographers who have evolved alongside its teams. By giving a face to the victims of these humanitarian crises, they also show the action of those who come to their aid.
The photographers:
Their names are Robin Hammond, Peter Bauza, Olivier Jobard, Lynsey Addario, Sebastiao Salgado, Cédric Gerbehaye, Stephan Vanfleteren, Laurence Geai, John Wessels, Nicole Tung… Many others deserve to be mentioned. They went to Chechnya or Yemen where war is raging, to Nepal and Haiti hit by an earthquake, to Malawi affected by HIV, to the Democratic Republic of Congo affected by the Ebola virus...
Their images illustrate the diversity of MSF's intervention contexts across the planet. Basing its action on an impartial assessment of needs, the organization provides assistance without political, religious or racial discrimination.
