These photographs were taken in 2001 as part of a study conducted for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Nick Danziger produced 11 portraits of women from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Israel, the Congo, and more.
What has become of Mariatu, Shinaz, Sarah, Amanda, Qualam, Dzidza, Olja, Efrat, Mah-Bibi, Zakiya, Nasrin, the 11 anonymous heroines of this exhibition? They are here, in front of us, embodying a timeless, universal suffering, that of women facing war, afflicted in their dignity, struggling for their survival and suffering from conflicts to which they mostly remain strangers.
Millions of them are fighting today in obscurity, to survive, to rebuild, to protect their homes, to hold onto the hypothetical return of a missing loved one and to prepare, without resigning, for the impossible mourning. Beyond this suffering, two words unite these women: courage and anger.
Through this work, Nick Danziger and the ICRC call on the responsibility of states that have committed to “respect and ensure respect under all circumstances” for international humanitarian law.
The 11 large-format photographs of this exhibition were donated to the Theater of Photography and Image by Raymond James Patrimoine and the Women’s Heritage Club.
