Exhibitions

Only With The Heart

In March 2022, with Russian tanks still surrounding Kyiv, veteran photojournalist David Pratt travelled to Ukraine along with fellow Scottish documentary filmmaker Robbie Fraser.

Their intention was to bear witness to the biggest unfolding crisis in Europe since World War 2. The result was a multi-part television documentary film series for BBC Scotland, “Pictures From Ukraine,” which tells the story of this and subsequent journeys to the country up until the present.

Like the documentary films themselves, David Pratt’s photographs in this exhibition - part of a larger archive - form a compelling chronicle of the conflict so far as well as a vital insight into its origins

Only With The Heart was first shown in 2019 at Sogo Arts gallery in Glasgow, Scotland.

The title for this collection of work takes its name from lines in the classic novella The Little Prince by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It chimes also with the belief of that other French creative master, photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, who once observed that…

“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life”

This retrospective documentary collection though by no means exhaustive in terms of the photographer’s archive, includes a large number of images taken over numerous decades in various countries facing war, conflicts and social upheaval.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pictures From Ukraine

Centre des arts - Ecole Internationale de Genève

Tues, Jan 9, 2024 – Fri, Feb 9, 2024

09:00 - 18:00

62, route de Chêne