By Christian Caujolle
Curator, IMAGES TO STOP TUBERCULOSIS

We know that images alone cannot change the world. But we believe-and history confirms and proves-that they can help us to know it, to better understand, question and analyze it. Images can mobilize and drive us to choose change based on what we have gained through them.

Photographers, who explore reality through the shape to their vision, often play on their own emotions and ours, to, literally, put before our eyes images of what is going wrong, and what we have to take into account, become responsible for, and cure.

We have thus turned to photographers to draw attention to the resurgence of tuberculosis, which has created a dramatic and even catastrophic situation in some parts of the globe (and not only in poor or emerging countries). Hoping to set in motion-at every level-a willingness to confront and deal with this problem, we have made a call for photographs about tuberculosis.

The images come from all over the world: from "big countries" with a long tradition of still images, and from "small countries" where the daily lives of patients, doctors, care providers and all others involved in the curing process are revealed. The images are in colour or black and white, and in square or rectangular formats. They tell us individual stories, or narrate through a series. They are from professionals, and from amateurs. And they all testify.

This projected exhibition speaks to today, but also to history. It offers advice and information. It always remains demanding in its goals and requirements. It offers a journey through a landscape where we are pulled between reality and aesthetics. It is intended to be strict in its criteria yet flexible and adaptable in its form.

We hope that the exhibition will achieve its goal: to make you feel, between terror and smiles, through emotion and tenderness, generosity and commitment, that we cannot wait any longer. We need to see, to take action. Immediately.