Founded in France in 1985, the human rights organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025. Over the years RSF has developed into a globally active network.
This photo exhibition shows the perspectives of photographers from 40 different countries. It points to the global challenges of our time and developments that will shape our world in the coming years. The 40 selected photographs testify to a world in turmoil. Focusing on three major themes – the environment, exile and crises – the photojournalists examine the effects of climate change on our lives, accompany people who are fleeing their homeland and report from locations at the centre of war zones and crisis regions. And each of them demonstrates how vital their work is. Because journalists uncover facts, and in documenting dangerous trends they also warn us against them. They keep us informed.
Reporters Without Borders works tirelessly to promote and protect press freedom and the independence and pluralism of the media worldwide. It provides emergency aid to journalists facing threats, denounces violence and censorship, and fights against impunity and disinformation. It stands for the core conviction that without a free press, our right to reliable and independent information is at risk. Without a free press, we cannot make free decisions.
With the exhibition “Photographs of Tomorrow’s World”, we stress the vital importance of independent journalism. Even if many of the documented problems exist outside Germany, we who live here should not close our eyes to them. After all, the fate of journalists who are prevented from doing their job – no matter where they are in the world – concerns us all. Without their courageous and risky work, we here in Germany would hardly be able to inform ourselves independently about today’s and tomorrow’s world.
Many of the selected photographs as well as other images by the photographers represented here can be found in the current and previous editions of our “Photos for Press Freedom” book, also available here f³ – freiraum für fotografie.
© Ingmar Björn Nolting from the Series »Wunderland Kalkar«, Kalkar, Germany, 2023
