{"id":5010,"date":"2016-10-17T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:16:12","slug":"every-person-is-a-piece-of-art-razza-umana-exhibition-opens-along-lac-leman-httpohchr-org-06-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/?p=5010","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery person is a piece of art\u201d: Razza Umana exhibition opens along Lac Leman (http:\/\/ohchr.org \/ 06.10.2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe subject, the theme we have to deal with more and more is humanity; all the rest is secondary,\u201d said photographer Oliviero Toscani. \u201cEvery person is a piece of art, therefore we have to treat each other with great care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Toscani made his comments at the launch of his photo exhibition \u201cRazza Umana\u201d. The exhibition features nearly 100 photographs along the front of Lac Leman in Geneva, Switzerland.\u00a0 The exhibition is sponsored by the UN Human Rights Office, which is also holding a smaller exhibition within its walls in Palais Wilson.<\/p>\n

The photos are portraits that show humanity in all its many differences: gender, race, dress, adornment. When looked at one on one, each portrait is incredibly different, but as a whole, remind us the similarity of humanity, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are our people, and we belong among them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd these few images convey so simply the essence of our work, human equality, human dignity and the universality of human rights. Our mandate is to uphold and defend the right of every human being, to celebrate the equality of every woman, man and child and to combat discrimination. And this is what these portraits remind us to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRazza Umana\u201d is a continuing project by Toscani in which he documents humanity as he sees it. He and his team visit cities, villages, squares, set up a photographic studio and take portraits of those who wish to participate.<\/p>\n

Toscani was the creative force behind numerous successful, international advertising campaigns, most notably perhaps for his work for the clothing chain United Colours of Benetton (1982-2000). He has collaborated on several social campaigns, many of them controversial, on road safety, death penalty, anorexia, AIDS and violence against women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future is humanity,\u201d said Toscani. \u201cIt is not national or local. It is not the differences. It is humanity in all its pathos,<\/em> but in the end it is all just one human race and this work proves that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition in Geneva builds on a previous project with the UN Human Rights Office Guatemala \u201cGuatemala Diversa\u201d (Diverse Guatemala). This exhibition portrayed the country\u2019s diversity in its widest sense \u2013 ethnicity, age, gender, social status, etc. Some of those portraits appear in Geneva exhibition.<\/p>\n

Razza Umana will be on display through the in lobby of Palais Wilson and along the lake front at Quai Wilson through 31 October 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

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