Angelina Jolie with photographer Zalmaï at the "Return, Afghanistan" photo exhibition in Washington, D.C.'s National Geographic Museum. © UNHCR/H.Farhad
World tour of Return, Afghanistan

The Geneva exhibition served as a launching pad for two world tours with the collaboration of UNHCR, the Aperture Foundation in New York and the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, as well as the support of the Center of Competence for Cultural Foreign Policy of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Fedex Express will provide worldwide free transport for the exhibition. The world tours are taking place over a period of at least two years.

The European and Asian tour produced by UNHCR in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation and coordinated by the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, started in Kabul, Afghanistan, the first of its kind to be presented in the country after the fall of the Taliban. From there it returned to Geneva to be shown at the Palais des Nations (25 September - 15 October). The exhibition next travels to Australia, Japan and other European countries.

The U.S. tour, produced and coordinated by the Aperture Foundation with the support of UNHCR, started in Washington D.C. at the National Geographic Explorer Hall and also at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on World Refugee Day, 20 June 2004. The exhibition will then proceed to Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other American cities.

Contacts for the European and Asian tour: E-mail Zalmaï

Contacts for the U.S. tour: www.aperture.org



Forthcoming venues

Guest books
 Over 300 messages have been recorded to date in the exhibition's guests books. Here we present a small selection.

Los Angeles, USA
Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University,
22 January to 6 March 2005

Dubaï, United Arab Emirates
Art Space Gallery, 10 February to 5 March 2005

United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland
Palais des Nations, 28 September to 15 October 2004

Kabul, Afghanistan
15 July to 5 August 2004

Washington, D.C., USA
16 June - 4 July 2004

World Première in Geneva, Switzerland
10 to 23 May 2004