Hemisphere

War Correspondents exhibition now open at IWMN

26 May 2011

Titled War Correspondents: Reporting under Fire, the exhibition investigates the reality of life as a war correspondent: the motivations, challenges and risks they face, as well as exploring issues surrounding changing technology, censorship, objectivity, opportunism and ethics.

This is the tenth exhibition that Hemisphere has created for Imperial War Museum North since its first creative collaboration with the museum’s curatorial team in 2003.

Featuring personal stories from iconic war correspondents such as Kate Adie, John Simpson, Rageh Omaar and Martin Bell, the exhibition explores highly topical themes such as how stories from war zones are controlled and manipulated, how technology has influenced and impacted on the role of the war correspondent and what the future holds for war correspondents in this era of citizen blogging and Twitter feeds.