Ester Monteiro Clip - 4 Journalists
Channel: Ja Theatre
Date: 2023-04-15

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4 Interrupted Lives Exhibition
This exhibition is dedicated to four journalists who died in the line of duty: Veronica Guerin (Ireland), Anna Politkovskaya (Russia), Natalia Estemirova (Chechnya) and Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta). It celebrates their courage, their resilience, their belief in freedom of expression, the importance of bearing witness and chronicling the truth without fear or favour, and the universality of human rights.

These four women wove their lives around a singular idea, that of a society free of corruption, brutality and oppression. We believe their lives and work exemplify values that are worth living by and ideals worth aspiring to.

They personify the values-based approach to journalism that not only records facts but also speaks to human values and emotional truth. We hope that glimpses into their achievements and struggles – their twinned personal and  professional realities as people, mothers, professionals – will kickstart a dialogue on the shifting interface between journalistic investigations and the ethics and function of truth in contemporary society.

This exhibition will juxtapose short films displaying extracts from their work or their descriptions of it with material evoking rituals from their personal lives. This will provide a basis for panel discussions and leiturias in a companion event at Casa Fernando Pessoa on April 14 on journalistic truth, freedom and narrativization with journalists and activists who have a lived-in experience of truth telling and standing up to power hierarchies.

This is how we remember them and honour them and their ethos.

We will kick off the exhibition with a vernissage on April 13  at 4 pm with an introduction by Lana Estemirova (journalist) and Martina Urso (activist from the Daphne Foundation).

13-18 APRIL 2023