This International Red Cross exhibition provides an insight into how wars and their aftermath continue to

affect women. Photographs from countries    including Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and

Sudan, reveal women’s experience of wars through displacement, sexual violence, lack of access to food

and vital medical care, loss of contact with loved ones, and as detainees and fighters.

From the Collection of the Australian War Memorial – includes the work of official photographers covering the war for the Australian defence force or the Australian War Memorial, photojournalists representing the media, and soldiers operating their own cameras in the field.

Featuring the work of 15 Australian photographers, including official photographers, photojournalists and soldiers: Alan Cuthbert, Allan Queale, Harold Dunkley, Phillip Hobson, Ian Robertson, Andy Mattay, Denis Gibbons, John Fairley, Michael Coleridge, Tim Page, David Dare Parker, George Gittoes, Heide Smith, Stephen Dupont and Ben Bohane

The Australian War Memorial’s Travelling Exhibition program is funded by the Australian Government’s Commemorations program. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for development and touring of cultural material across Australia.

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