Reza conducted a photographic residency with students from the Charles Andreï school in Lupinu. The CM2 group then participated in online sessions over several weeks, culminating in a public exhibition in the heart of the Barberine Duriani Library in Alb’Oru. This exhibition showcased their personal work around the inspiring theme “Our World, Our Family”.

Topic: “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

Located in the heart of Istanbul’s airport, the panoramic exhibition “Dreams of the Future” showcases the work of 60 Turkish and Syrian teenagers from the Youth Lens Project, under the auspices of Unicef in Turkey. As part of the project, Reza and six local trainers taught photography to these young people in the Izmir, Gaziantep and Istanbul regions. The giant installation illustrates their work and their view of a daily life that forges bonds of peaceful coexistence 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 young Turkish and Syrian refugees exhibited their work at the Unicef House in New York. In 2019 – the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child – these students, aged between 11 and 18, learned and worked with the art of photography under the guidance of Reza. The aim of the training sessions, carried out under the auspices of Unicef in Turkey as part of the Youth Lens project, was to teach these budding photographers the language of the image; to help them tell their dreams and realities through photographs.

Topic: “Dreams of the Future”

Place: Unicef House, New-York

Duration : 5 days

Event: Public Exhibition

The Reza Visual Academy, under the guidance of the photojournalist Reza, thanks to the invitation of the French Institute of Argentina, carried out 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 30 May 2019 to 30 October.

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 20 to 24 May 2019, 60 young Turkish and Syrian refugees exhibited their work at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council. In 2019 – the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child – these students, aged between 11 and 18, learned and worked with the art of photography under the guidance of Reza. The training sessions, carried out as part of the Youth Lens project under the aegis of Unicef in Turkey, have sought to teach these budding photographers the language of the image; to help them tell, through photographs, their dreams and realities.

Topic: « Dreams of the Future »

Place: Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE)

Event: Public Exhibition

BienalSur is the largest contemporary art biennial ever held in South America. As part of this project, an exhibition of the children’s photographs was presented alongside the workshop “Urban Voices” by Reza Visual Academy in 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 festival Phot’Aubrac Edition 2018: the association organized an exhibition of photographic works made by children from precarious suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Topic: “Urban Voices”

Place: Phot’Aubrac

Event: Public Exhibition

At the Malta International Arts Festival in 2018, Reza presented 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 displaced children in Bamako, Mali, the children’s photos were exhibited at the French Institute of Bamako in January 2017 as part of the “Equations Nomades” project in partnership 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.

Topic:  “Urban Voices”

Place: Phot’Aubrac

Prints: 35

Event: Public Exhibition

Reza Visual Academy has given its students the opportunity to showcase their work in their own community. Many have been Reza’s students since 2013, and this was the first time they saw their photographs exhibited at the camp.

Duration: 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 

As an exception, in November 2016, an exhibition was held at the European Commission’s headquarters, in partnership with UNDP, featuring photographs of refugee children living in the Kawergosk, Kabarto and Barika camps. Reza designed the exclusive scenography of the exhibition on a voluntary basis.

Topic: “Exile Voices”

Place: European Commission headquarter, Brussels

Prints: 40

Partners : United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Duration : 10 days

Event : Public exhibition

As a tribute to our human family, in the summer of 2015, Reza proposed a giant photographic fresco on the banks of the Seine, between the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor bridge and the Pont Royal. The exhibition “A dream of humanity” displayed the photographs taken by the Syrian refugee children living in the Kawergosk refugee camp, who have been attending a 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 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (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 taken by the camp reporters were displayed at the university.

Topic: “Exile Voices”

Place: Syracuse University

Prints: 10

Partners : Syracuse University, RVA’ own funds

Duration : 3 weeks

Event : Public exhibition

The works of refugee children living in Kawergosk and Kabarto refugee camps were displayed at Duhok University on the occasion of a public exhibition in 2015. The refugee children and their trainers participated in the opening of the exhibition 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 “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: “My world, my family”

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