THE INSPIRATION
In 2016, a bloody image of five-year-old Omran Daqnees, sitting in an ambulance after an airstrike destroyed his home and killed his brother in Syria, shocked the conscience of the world. Struck by that image and other human rights imagery that went viral at the time, David Clark realized that amateur and professional photographers around the world who document human rights abuses and triumphs possess a tremendous power to raise awareness and inspire people to stand up for human rights.
In 2019, alongside Global Partner United Nations Human Rights, David Clark Cause officially launched The Photography 4 Humanity Global Initiative with the goal of highlighting the power imagery holds to inform, educate and inspire people to action. After the success of the inaugural year, Fotografiska NY joined UN Human Rights as a global partner of Photography 4 Humanity so the initiative could grow within the photographic, as well as the human rights community. As the Presenting Partner, Fotografiska NY will encourage photographers around the word to participate, and will annually curate the Photography 4 Humanity exhibit at the Fotografiska Museum in New York City on UN Human Rights Day.