Join us for a public viewing of the Imagine: Reflections on Peace photography exhibition and reception before the Jodidi Lecture with Ron Haviv. The reception will end promptly by 4:45 p.m. to allow guests to take their seats for the 5:00 p.m. lecture. We welcome all to join the lecture to follow; please register in advance on the Jodidi Lecture event listing.
Content advisory: This exhibition includes graphic photographs and video documenting armed conflict, violence, and their aftermath. Viewer discretion is advised.
The Imagine: Reflections on Peace exhibition profiles bodies of work by photographers whose lives have been dedicated to covering war and its aftermath. It is the culmination of three years of global reporting by The VII Foundation and takes a deep dive into postconflict societies, exploring what happens on the ground when the peacemakers and diplomats depart, and what we can learn about peacebuilding from those lived experiences. The intention for this project is to have domestic and global impact through policymaking, peacebuilding—in towns and cities in the process of rebuilding—and in classrooms, encouraging the next generation to create better ways of avoiding conflict and making a better peace. This exhibition presents work from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, and Lebanon.
Director of The VII Foundation Ron Haviv, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning photojournalist, is integral to this project and has many photographs in the exhibition. Haviv is delivering the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture on October 22, titled “Testimony (1989–2026).” Established in 1955, the Jodidi Lecture series provides for the “delivery of lectures by eminent and well-qualified persons…for the promotion of tolerance, understanding and good will among nations, and the peace of the world.” Through a visual presentation, he will explore the realities of conflict and the ethical, practical, and personal challenges of visual journalism, from Central America and the Balkans to the Arab Spring, Ukraine, and an increasingly polarized United States.
For more information on the exhibition and The VII Foundation, visit our photography exhibition page.
LOCATION:Concourse (Basement) Level, CGIS South Building STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20261022T200000Z DTEND:20261022T204500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR