11 April - 25 June 2001
A hundred and forty photographs, in black and white and colour, by James Nachtwey (USA 1948), one of the best-known and most acclaimed photojournalists, and the true heir to Robert Capa. This was a collection of images from 1981 to the present day forming a devastating documentation of war, a denunciation of violence, but also a homage to the vitality of the human spirit that survives, despite the horrendous circumstances which history sometimes forces upon it.
The exhibition was structured in eleven sections: Facts of War (Fatti di guerra), The famine in Africa (La fame in Africa), Crime and punishment in America, (Delitto e castigo in America), Romania, the Balkans, Indonesia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Eastern Europe, and South Africa.
Exhibition curated by Alessandra Mauro and Agnès Sire.
Catalogue with text by Gad Lerner, Edizioni Contrasto, Rome 2001