Opened on April 23 and running through August 21, The Annenberg Space for Photography’s current exhibition, REFUGEE, includes a documentary narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Cate Blanchett.
The 23-minute film and the exhibit highlight the global refugee crisis. The film follows five photographers commissioned by the Annenberg Foundation specifically for this exhibit. The photographers selected were:
- Pulitzer Prize-winning combat and human rights photographer Lynsey Addario covering the Rohingya Muslims, a disenfranchised minority in the predominantly Buddhist nation of Myanmar.
- Fashion and fine art photographer Omar Victor Diop’s portraits of refugee mothers fleeing with their babies from the Central African Republic to neighboring Cameroon.
- Graciela Iturbide, shooting displaced families in Colombia who fled to escape guerilla warfare and drug cartel violence.
- Martin Schoeller’s portraits of refugees newly resettled in America.
- British photojournalist Tom Stoddart who followed Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe, arriving on smugglers’ boats, washing up on the shores of Greece, getting stuck in the no-man’s-land between Croatia and Slovenia, and finally reaching Berlin.
The Annenberg Space for Photography is located at 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Century City. Tel: 213.403.3000. Wednesday through Sunday: 11am–6pm. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission is free.
