Reza conducted a photographic residency with students from the Charles Andreï school in Lupinu. After that, the CM2 group took part in online sessions over several weeks, culminating in a public exhibition at the heart of the Barberine Duriani library at Alb’Oru. This exhibition highlighted their personal work around the inspiring theme “Our World, Our Family”.

Subject: “Our World, Our Family”

Partners: Charles Andrei School, City of Bastia, Les cités éducatives and the Webistan agency

Place: Barberine Duriani multimedia library, Bastia, Corsica

Duration : 7 days

Event : Public exhibition

The panoramic exhibition “Rêves d’Avenir” (“Dreams of the Future”) is on display in the heart of Istanbul airport and showcases the work of 60 Turkish and Syrian teenagers from the Youth Lens Project, under the aegis of Unicef in Turkey. Through this project, Reza and six local trainers taught photography to these young people in the regions of Izmir, Gaziantep and Istanbul. The giant installation illustrates their work and their view of a daily life that forges bonds of peaceful cohabitation between refugees and host communities.

Topic : « Dreams of the future »

Partners : Webistan and Unicef Turkey (in collaboration with the European Commission and the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports)

Place : Istanbul airport in Turkey

Duration : December 2019 – January 2020

Event : Public exhibition

In May 2019, 60 Turkish and Syrian young refugees exhibited their work at the Unicef House in New-York. In 2019 – which marks the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child – this students ages of 11 and 18 from have learned and worked using the art of photography under the guidance of Reza. The trainings implemented with the Youth Lens project, in the aegis of Unicef in Turkey, has sought to teach these budding photographers the language of the image; to help them tell, through photos, their dreams and realities.

Subject: « Dreams of the Future »

Location: Unicef House, New-York

Duration : 5 days

Event: Public Exhibition

The Reza Visual Academy, under the gaze of photojournalist Reza, thanks to the invitation of the French Institute of Argentina, implemented a training in photography between 2018 and 2019. The photographs of the young people have been materialized by an exhibition on the grids of the French Embassy in Buenos Aires, from May 30, 2019, until October 30.

Topic : « Amor por el Barrio»

Partners : Webistan and the French Institute of Argentina (with Veolia)

Place : French Embassy of Buenos Aires – Argentina

Duration : May 30 – October 30

Event : Public exhibition

From May 20 to 24, 2019, 60 Turkish and Syrian young refugees exhibited their work at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council. In 2019 – which marks the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child – this students ages of 11 and 18 from have learned and worked using the art of photography under the guidance of Reza. The trainings implemented with the Youth Lens project, in the aegis of Unicef in Turkey, has sought to teach these budding photographers the language of the image; to help them tell, through photos, their dreams and realities.

Subject: « Dreams of the Future »

Location: Economic, Social and Environmental Council

Event: Public Exhibition

BienalSur is the biggest Contemporary Art Biennale that ever took place in South America. In the framework of this project, an exhibition of the children’s photographs alongside the workshop « Urban Voices » of Reza Visual Academy was showcased at the heart of the Argentine capital, from September to December 2018 in Plaza San Martin.

Topic : « Urban Voices »

Partners : BienalSur & UNTREF

Place : Plaza San Martin, Buenos Aires – Argentina

Duration : 2 months

Event : Public exhibition

As part of the Phot’Aubrac Edition 2018 festival: the association organized an exhibition of the photographic work made by the children from precarious suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Subject: « Urban Voices »

Location: Phot’Aubrac

Event: Public Exhibition

Reza presented during the Malta International Arts Festival in 2018, the testimonies of his young students in refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Topic : « Exile Voices »

Place : Malta Arts Festival, La Valette

Event : Public exhibition

Following the photography workshop for orphans and IDPs children in Bamako, Mali, the children’s photos were exhibited in January 2017, at the French Institute of Bamako, in the framework of « Equations Nomades » project partnered with UNESCO Bamako.

Topic : « Urban Voices »

Place : Bamako, Mali

Partners : UNESCO Bamako

As part of the Phot’Aubrac Edition 2017 festival: the association organized an exhibition of the photographic work made by the children from precarious suburbs of Bamako, in Mali.

Subject: « Urban Voices »

Location: Phot’Aubrac

Prints: 35

Event: Public Exhibition

Reza Visual Academy has given to their students the opportunity to show their work in their own community. Many have been Reza’s students since 2013 and saw their photographs exhibited in the camp for the first time.

Time: March – April 2017

Place: Kawergosk Camp, Erbil, Kurdistan

Partners: RVA’s team in Kurdistan, UNHCR and the Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF)

In the frame of the festival Phot’Aubrac 2016 : the association honors the photographic work of the refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Topic :« Exile Voices »

Place : Phot’Aubrac

Event : Public exhibition 

Exceptionally, an exhibition made in partnership with the UNDP and displaying photographs of the refugee children living in Kawergosk, Kabarto and Barika, camps took place at the European Commission headquarters, in November 2016. Reza designed the exhibition’s exclusive scenography, on a voluntary basis.

Topic : “Exile Voices”

Place : European Commission headquarters, Brussels

Prints : 40

Partners : UNDP

Duration : 10 days

Event : Public exhibition

As a tribute to our human family, Reza proposed in summer 2015 a giant photographic fresco on the bank of the Seine river, between the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor bridge and the Pont Royal. The exhibition “A dream of Humanity” displayed the photographs made by the Syrian refugee children living in Kawergosk refugee camp, who followed photography training workshop with Reza since 2013. 

Topic : “A dream of Humanity”

Place : Seine River banks, in front of Orsay Museum

Prints : 354 meter-long fresco

Partners : HIPA foundation and UNHCR

Duration : 3 months

Event : Public exhibition

On the occasion of a conference on the global refugee crisis, Syracuse University invited Reza to present his Exile Voices project in 2015. Photographs made by the camp reporters were displayed in the university.

Topic : “Exile Voices”

Place : Syracuse University

Prints : 10

Partners : Syracuse University, RVA’ own funds

Duration : 3 weeks

Event : Public exhibition

The work of the refugee children living in Kawergosk and Kabarto refugee camps have been displayed in Duhok University, on the occasion of a public exhibition in 2015. The refugee children and their trainers took part in the exhibition opening, in the presence of official representatives and academics.

Topic : “Exile Voices”

Place : Duhok University

Prints : 40

Partners : UNDP

Duration : 2 days

Event : Public exhibition

During 6 months of photography workshop with Reza in 2013, the children in the “forbidden zones” Reynerie, Mirail and Bellefontaine in Toulouse were trained to master the photographic tool as an instrument of expression and claim for a world more solidarity.  In the framework of « Month of the Photo » in Toulouse, an exhibition on the theme « Ma terre, ma famille » (My world, my family) displayed 60 best photographs taken by 38 students of Reza Visual Academy’s workshop, alongside with an award ceremony to 7 excellent students, selected by an international jury of image professionals.

Topic:« Ma terre, ma famille »

Place: The Multimedia libraries José Cabanis & Grand M, Toulouse, France

Duration: September – November 2013

Partners: the city of Toulouse; National Geographic Channel, Tisséo, Carsat, ERDF, Toulouse Ouest Partenaire association; Sponsorship of Banque Populaire Occitane Foundation