Refugees Even After Death Exhibit Comes to Pius Library

Refugees Even After Death: A Quest for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation

Photographs by Jonathan Moller
On display in Pius XII Memorial Library
2nd Floor Gallery
April 30 to June 29, 2007

This traveling exhibition of color photographs is intended as an educational tool to tell the story of the recent tragic history of Guatemala: the repression and genocide carried out by state security forces in the early 1980’s and the work for justice, truth, and reconciliation being done within a continued context of impunity and human rights violations in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Within the context of a thirty-six year civil war, state security forces carried out repression and genocide, murdering over 200,000 people—many of whom were missing until clandestine cemeteries were discovered containing their remains.

Jonathan Moller, the creator of this exhibition is a photographer and human rights activist. For six yeas he worked with the National Coordinating Office on Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala (NCOORD), the Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP) and most recently with the Forensic Team of the Office of Peace and Reconciliation of the Quiche’ Catholic Diocese. In Guatemala he collaborated with human rights organizations supporting uprooted populations and photographed the exhumations of clandestine cemeteries with a forensic anthropology team. Moller’s photographs have been widely published and are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the University of California (Berkeley) Art Museum, among others. Refugees Even after Death: Photographs of Exhumations of Clandestine Cemeteries in Guatemala, funded by the Daniele Agostino Foundation and Amnesty International. Moller received the Fellowship Award from the Society for Contemporary Photography in 2002 and the Henry Dunant Prize for Excellence in Journalism in 2001.

This exhibit is sponsored by Amnesty International – Saint Louis University. For additional information on this exhibit or Amnesty International at SLU, contact Kathryn Jonas at jonask@slu.edu

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