2023-05-02 19:24:00
May 2, 2023 / 12:24 p.m
During the month of May, the Plaza de San Pedro hosts a photographic exhibition under the title Womens Cry (The cry of women), with images that seek to give voice to the pain and injustices suffered by some women around the world.
There are several occasions on which Pope Francis has recalled the purpose of the artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini when he made the great “colonnade” that frames Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican: to represent the maternal embrace of the Church that welcomes the faithful. and also non-believers.
The left part of this “embrace” is the enclave chosen for the exhibition Womens Crypromoted by the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See together with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (UMOF) and the company “Hand Shake”.
Photograph of a girl at the border with Ukraine. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Press
As explained by the organizers, in the presentation that took place on May 2 at the Holy See Press Office, the exhibition consists of 26 photographs taken by 8 international photographers “who accepted the challenge of giving voice to the cry of painoften hidden, of the women in the world”.
Paolo Ruffini intervenes in the press conference on May 2. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Press
The snapshots show the faces of women, girls and old women from the heart of the Amazon to the favelas of Brazil, passing through the Greek islands, the borders of Ukraine and from India to the countryside of Bangladesh in Southeast Asia.
According to María Lia Zervino, president of the UMOF, this exhibition in the Plaza de San Pedro “is a sign of how the Church does not leave suffering women alone”. “He wants to embrace all the women of the world to give visibility and to improve their lives and those of their families,” she pointed out.
Photograph from the exhibition “Womans cry”. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ ACI Press
For the prefect of the Department for Communication, Paolo Ruffini, these images “show beauty to delve into pain” and help believers and non-believers to understand pain through beauty.
In addition, each image in the exhibition is accompanied by one of the phrases from the encyclical Brothers all of Pope Francis.
Lia Giovanazzi Beltrami, director, producer and artistic director of this initiative, also participated in the press conference, who stressed that photography is a universal language and explained that the project aims to “create social change in an emotional way.”
He also assured that “it has not been an easy journey” and that each photograph “tells a drama with deep hope.”
Indian girl. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Press
One of the authors of the initiative, the photographer Giuseppe Caridi explained to ACI Prensa that his objective in portraying a woman in the Sahara desert was to “tell a story through the beauty of life and those who still have hope”.
Giuseppe Caridi with his photograph. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Press
For Caridi, “despite life’s problems, beauty continues to exist” and his photography —he adds— can inspire those who feel pain as “a message of optimism”.
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