Magnum Photos

Exhibition - Empower Women: 30 Years of the United Nations Efforts to Promote Gender Equality 

This exhibition tracks the human face and social context of women's empowerment through the cameras of Magnum photographers.In 1975, the first UN World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City. There was broad concensus on the need to acheive equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities for women. Still missing was a comprehensive picture of the complex issues regarding women's empowerment worldwide. As the photos in this exhibition show, women's empowerment can be a matter of life or death, health ar disease, self-determination or oppression. Shot in the most divergent settings, from... 

Alex Majoli 1997

BRAZIL. Sanovalina. Landless women demonstrating. 1997. 

Paolo Pellegrin 1998

CAMBODIA. 1998. 

Thomas Dworzak 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Province of Badakhshan. Town of Fayzabad. October... 
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Bruno Barbey 1994

VIETNAM. Built into the limestone cliffs of the Mountain of Fragrant... 

Stuart Franklin 2002

NIGERIA. Lagos. Children arriving late for assembly at Oiojodu... 

Richard Kalvar 2004

Maggie Wilderotter (senior vice-President, Business Strategy,... 

Ian Berry 1999

INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. Pathrad. Villagers shelter from the monsoon... 

Ferdinando Scianna 1991

AUSTRIA. Vienna. Austrian writer Elfriede JELINEK. 1991. 

Abbas 1998

IRAN. Tehran. Young girls in Islamic school uniforms play football... 

Stuart Franklin 1998

USA. California. Julia "BUTTERFLY" Hill in a 200 foot ancient... 

Richard Kalvar 2004

Gisèle Yitamben, President, Association pour le Soutien et l'Appui... 

Paolo Pellegrin 1998

CAMBODIA, Phnom Penh 1998. Left Khen, from Battambang is 15years... 

Thomas Dworzak 2003

GEORGIA. Tbilisi. November 22, 2003. Nino Bujaradze. After a... 
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Thomas Dworzak 2001

YUGOSLAVIA. Belgrade. September 2001. 

Ferdinando Scianna 1993

Alex Majoli 1999

ANGOLA. Luanda. War without end. 2000. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1997

LIBERIA. Monrovia. Waiting in the line to vote. 1997. 

Thomas Dworzak 2001

Suva-Reka 07/2001. Mother of Xhmail Berisha (R mother of baby)... 

Thomas Dworzak 2003

IRAN. Tehran. Iranian lawyer Shirin EBADI, Nobel Peace Prize... 
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Alex Majoli 2004

BRAZIL. Sao Paulo, 2004. The mayor of Sao Paulo Marta SUPLICY.... 

Alex Majoli 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Journalist Janine Di Giovanni. 2001. 

Alex Majoli 2002

KENYA. Kakuma. Arrival to Kakuma. 2002. 

Alex Majoli 1998

KOSOVO. Pristina. Demonstration against Serb brutality. Demonstrators... 

Paolo Pellegrin 2004

Nyamata region. Olive Mukabalisa,50 with her husband Pacifique... 
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