The photo archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) contain some 110,000 pictures. The 88 images presented here in chronological order were deliberate, chosen to take the viewer on a journey through the main fields of humanitarian action: relief for the wounded, protection of prisoners of war, restoration of family ties, assistance for civilians and dissemination of international humanitarian law.
红十字国际委员会的照片档案包含有大约11万张图片。这次展出的88张照片都是精心选出，按时间排序，带领参观者回顾了人道行动涉及的主要领域：救护伤兵、保护战俘、重建家庭联系、援助平民和传播国际人道法。
The Red Cross came into being at the same time as the first photographs started to be developed, and its work was immediately covered by the new medium. Clearly, humanitarian action would not be the same without photography and its power to spark instant emotion, its snapshot of a reality that words cannot render.
展出的首张照片诞生之时，红十字运动也开始形成，它所开展的工作很快就被这种新的媒体形式发现。显然，若没有摄影，若不是其瞬间点燃情绪的力量，若没有镜头抓拍的难以言表的真实，人道行动也将会大不相同。
From the first picture, taken in 1859 after the battle of Solferino (Henry Dunant’s inspiration for the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions), to the last, shot in Yemen in 2005, the exhibition queries the longstanding tension between truth and its representation, between player and onlooker, between the contingencies of war and the enduring nature of humanitarian aid, between reality in the “field” and the need to abide by certain principles.
展览中的首张照片拍摄于1859年索尔弗利诺战役之后，正是这次战役激发了亨利•杜南开创红十字运动和日内瓦公约的设想；最后一张照片摄于2005年的也门。通过这一张张照片，反映出真实与表象、参与者和观众、战争代价与人道援助、“战地”现实和遵守原则之间由来已久的矛盾。
These images speak to us of war, suffering and ruin. But also of comfort and kindness.
这些图片不仅向我们诉说着战乱、苦难和破坏，也展现了些许慰藉和良善。
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