Exhibitions
31 October – 31 December 2014
CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE
UNESCO headquarters
Paris, France This was FRIDAY, 31 October in Paris: Opening of the Exhibition CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE It was as beautiful a late October afternoon as could possibly be in Paris – 26 degrees and blue skies. Around 13:30 Madame Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, entered the lobby of UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris to open, first, an exhibition to remember Nelson Mandela's life, and then our exhibition ‘CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE – The Alfred Fried Photography Award, an exhibition to celebrate the 70th anniversary of UNESCO’. The exhibition is located at the Avenue Suffren entrance and, together with the Mandela show, marks the start of the celebrations to honour the 70th anniversary of UNESCO. 18 of the 21 shortlisted works were selected. The exhibition will run until 31 December 2014. In the presence of two of the Fried Peace Medal winners, Ann-Christine Woehrl (who flew in from Berlin) and Davide Tremolada (who travelled from Milan to Paris); of UNESCO's Assistant Director General, Eric Falt; the Austrian Ambassador to UNESCO, Harald Stranzl, and Excellencies from South Africa and Russia, I had the opportunity of explaining to Madame Bokova the concept and intentions of calling on photographers to answer the question, What Does Peace Look Like? A deceptively simple question with no easy answers. I feel honoured that in her answer Madame Director General Bokova welcomed this initiative enthusiastically, encouraging us to come back to Paris in one year at the end of the 70th anniversary celebrations with next year’s Fried Photography Award images. I brought Madame Bokova's words to the attention of Assistant Director General, Eric Falt, to ask if this could fit into the calendar of events to come – and he answered that it would not only be very desirable but most likely doable. Personally speaking I think the exhibition looks truly great and from what I noticed the images make people stop, look and read. For making it happen – and it was a veryveryvery narrow schedule – I have to thank Gerhard Hinterleitner and Peter Kurz of Cyberlab for the prints, Barbara Trionfi and Christiane Klint at the International Press Institute for ‘some funds’, Brigitte Scott who translated all text pro bono, as did Sandra Wilfinger-Bak who proofread the German text, Doris Wallner-Boesmueller and Helmut Urbanec at Boesmueller who printed the catalogue for a lower price, and Tilli Spitzer, who drove the exhibition plates and catalogues from Vienna to Paris to hand them over to UNESCO just in time. I thank Martin Ackerl and Birgit Hofbauer for putting in nightshifts to create plates and catalogue and Johanna Reithmayer for coordinating it all. AND Silvia Lammerhuber for her ongoing generosity to encourage us to find the capacity for these extra miles in our busy publishing house and for the financial support – Silvia has become the guardian angel of the Alfred Fried Photography Award, in the word's true sense. Collaboration with UNESCO could not have been better, with Armelle Arrou – responsible for ‘everything’, Pauline Vallette for tying up all loose ends, Ian Denison for making the catalogues available at the UNESCO bookstore, Carlos Gangoso for hanging the exhibition – and most importantly our jury member, Eric Falt, the project's guardian angel at UNESCO. Last but not least: ALL WINNERS AND SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS. THANK YOU ALL.
Lois Lammerhuber
Alfred Fried Photography Award Click here to see the images!
CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE
UNESCO headquarters
Paris, France This was FRIDAY, 31 October in Paris: Opening of the Exhibition CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE It was as beautiful a late October afternoon as could possibly be in Paris – 26 degrees and blue skies. Around 13:30 Madame Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, entered the lobby of UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris to open, first, an exhibition to remember Nelson Mandela's life, and then our exhibition ‘CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF PEACE – The Alfred Fried Photography Award, an exhibition to celebrate the 70th anniversary of UNESCO’. The exhibition is located at the Avenue Suffren entrance and, together with the Mandela show, marks the start of the celebrations to honour the 70th anniversary of UNESCO. 18 of the 21 shortlisted works were selected. The exhibition will run until 31 December 2014. In the presence of two of the Fried Peace Medal winners, Ann-Christine Woehrl (who flew in from Berlin) and Davide Tremolada (who travelled from Milan to Paris); of UNESCO's Assistant Director General, Eric Falt; the Austrian Ambassador to UNESCO, Harald Stranzl, and Excellencies from South Africa and Russia, I had the opportunity of explaining to Madame Bokova the concept and intentions of calling on photographers to answer the question, What Does Peace Look Like? A deceptively simple question with no easy answers. I feel honoured that in her answer Madame Director General Bokova welcomed this initiative enthusiastically, encouraging us to come back to Paris in one year at the end of the 70th anniversary celebrations with next year’s Fried Photography Award images. I brought Madame Bokova's words to the attention of Assistant Director General, Eric Falt, to ask if this could fit into the calendar of events to come – and he answered that it would not only be very desirable but most likely doable. Personally speaking I think the exhibition looks truly great and from what I noticed the images make people stop, look and read. For making it happen – and it was a veryveryvery narrow schedule – I have to thank Gerhard Hinterleitner and Peter Kurz of Cyberlab for the prints, Barbara Trionfi and Christiane Klint at the International Press Institute for ‘some funds’, Brigitte Scott who translated all text pro bono, as did Sandra Wilfinger-Bak who proofread the German text, Doris Wallner-Boesmueller and Helmut Urbanec at Boesmueller who printed the catalogue for a lower price, and Tilli Spitzer, who drove the exhibition plates and catalogues from Vienna to Paris to hand them over to UNESCO just in time. I thank Martin Ackerl and Birgit Hofbauer for putting in nightshifts to create plates and catalogue and Johanna Reithmayer for coordinating it all. AND Silvia Lammerhuber for her ongoing generosity to encourage us to find the capacity for these extra miles in our busy publishing house and for the financial support – Silvia has become the guardian angel of the Alfred Fried Photography Award, in the word's true sense. Collaboration with UNESCO could not have been better, with Armelle Arrou – responsible for ‘everything’, Pauline Vallette for tying up all loose ends, Ian Denison for making the catalogues available at the UNESCO bookstore, Carlos Gangoso for hanging the exhibition – and most importantly our jury member, Eric Falt, the project's guardian angel at UNESCO. Last but not least: ALL WINNERS AND SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS. THANK YOU ALL.
Lois Lammerhuber
Alfred Fried Photography Award Click here to see the images!
