Free Exhibition of Tom Stoddart's photography on South Bank

Perspectives,an exhibition of images by award-winning photographer Tom Stoddart will be held at one of London’s prime South Bank sites throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Seventy-eight of Stoddart’s signature black and white pictures will form a free, open-air display at More London Riverside, between City Hall and HMS Belfast.

During his distinguished career Stoddart has travelled to more than 50 countries and documented such historic events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Siege of Sarajevo and the election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s first black president.

His acclaimed in-depth work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic blighting sub-Saharan Africa won the POY World Understanding Award in 2003. In the same year his pictures of British Royal Marines in combat, during hostilities in Iraq, was awarded the Larry Burrows Award for Exceptional War Photography. A year later his book iWITNESS was honoured as the best photography book published in the USA.
Now established as one of the world's most respected photojournalists, Stoddart works closely with Getty Images to produce features on serious world issues.

He said,”The world’s nations are currently joined together by a wonderful sporting festival whose motto is ‘swifter, higher, stronger’. I hope that people visiting the exhibition will leave with a greater determination to understand and help those with little access to clean water, food and medicines who, through no fault of their own, cannot run more swiftly, jump higher or be stronger”.
Perspectives has been created with the participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC, featuring photographs taken by Tom Stoddart for the Health Care in Danger campaign.
At the heart of the Perspectives exhibition, a red hexagon with reality-based images presents the heart-wrenching stories of those deprived of safe access to health care in situations of armed violence.

Photographed by Tom Stoddart in 2011, the images are part of the ICRC-led Health Care in Danger campaign, a Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement-wide initiative that will run until 2015, the campaign stigmatizes the violence that injures and kills health-care workers and patients, and damages and destroys facilities and vehicles.
Sean Maguire, spokesman for the ICRC said,

“The inability of the wounded and sick to receive effective health care is one of the biggest humanitarian challenges in the world right now.Many of Tom Stoddart’s pictures powerfully illustrate the impact such events are having on people around the world, everyday.”
For further information contact Project Director Glyn Strong