The Starved for Attention exhibit tours the East Coast, recreating a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field hospital specializing in the treatment of malnourished children, just like those used in the field. MSF medical staff and aid workers—who have worked in malnutrition projects in the field—will guide visitors through a simulated clinic and describe how MSF works to treat and prevent malnutrition.
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Starved for Attention Exhibition
Friday, October 7th, 2011NY1 Spotlights Starved for Attention Exhibit
Monday, September 26th, 2011On Friday, NY1 featured three clips on the Starved for Attention interactive exhibit. The exhibit drew more than 2,000 visitors during its run in New York, and will be heading to Philadelphia later this week, followed by Baltimore and Washington DC. Watch the NY1 clips, including interviews with exhibit guides here.
“Everyday we are not utilizing these life-saving products is basically a failure on our part as humans.” – Dr. Leo Ho, Medical Coordinator
Starved for Attention Exhibit and Feeding Center Tours Italy
Friday, May 20th, 2011A special Starved for Attention exhibit housed in a re-created therapeutic feeding center is currently touring major Italian cities. Visitors are led through the feeding center by MSF medical volunteers, who explain how malnourished children are identified and treated in the field.
In addition to the weighing and treatment distribution stations one would typically find in an MSF feeding center, there are also several screens playing the Starved for Attention films. The goal of the interactive exhibit is to educate the public about malnutrition and the need for governments to support more effective treatment.
Visit the free exhibit:
Milan – May 3rd-9th
Turin – May 12th-16th
Ferrara – September 30th-October 2nd
Rome – October 9th-17th
The re-created therapeutic feeding center sits near Milan's Arena Civica. © Dario Mastrocola/MSF
Materials used to diagnose and treat malnutrition are on display inside the tent. © Dario Mastrocola/MSF
MSF nurse Carla Denti leads a group of high school students on a tour of the feeding center. © Dario Mastrocola/MSF
Stockholm’s Fotografiska Showcases Starved for Attention
Monday, May 9th, 2011The world-renowned Fotografiska (The Swedish Museum of Photography) in Stockholm is displaying the Starved for Attention exhibit through May, culminating in Stockholm Photography Week from May 23rd-29th.
At the exhibit opening on May 3rd, MSF supporters and photography enthusiasts gathered to hear Starved for Attention photographer Marcus Bleasdale speak about his work for the project in Djibouti.
Museum-goers view Antonin Kratochvil's black and white images of the midwestern United States. © Ingrid Holmberg/MSF
Starved for Attention petition signatures calling for better food aid were collected at the opening. © Ingrid Holmberg/MSF
Photographer Marcus Bleasdale speaks at the Fotografiska opening. © Ingrid Holmberg/MSF
Starved for Attention Featured at Global Health Conference
Thursday, April 14th, 2011The 13th Annual Northern California Global Health Conference, held last week in Davis, California, included a presentation on malnutrition by an MSF physician and a Starved for Attention campaign display.
The conference was organized by a consortium of area universities and this year was organized around the theme: Breaking Borders and Boundaries.
MSF emergency physician Jason Prystowsky delivered a talk on the global malnutrition crisis, focusing on the connections between poverty, food security, and childhood malnutrition. Dr. Prystowsky drew on his experience treating severely malnourished children in MSF clinics in Sudan, explaining to the audience that “we know what the problem is and how to treat it. We have a moral responsibility to act”.
The Starved for Attention exhibit was on display at the conference, and has been installed in the student center of UC Davis’s Medical School in Sacramento for the next couple of months.
Dr Prystowsky speaks to the hundreds of students, professors, and health practicioners who attended the conference.
Conference attendees look through campaign materials and view the Starved for Attention films.
Dr Prystowsky answers questions after his talk.
San Francisco Welcomes Starved for Attention
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
UCSF medical students take a study break to watch a Starved for Attention film.
The library is free and open to the public:
Monday through Thursday 7:45am-10pm
Friday 7:45-8pm
Saturday closed
Sunday 12pm-10pm
Parnassus Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143
Slovenia Press Photo Festival Welcomes Starved for Attention
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011The Starved for Attention exhibit was featured at the opening of the 2011 Slovenia Press Photo Festival at the Galerija Kresija in Ljubljana last week. VII photographers Marcus Bleasdale and Antonin Kratochvil spoke at the event and hosted a master class at the festival. MSF doctors and staff presented Starved for Attention, highlighting the campaign’s petition calling for better quality food aid.
Over 100 people attended the opening of the exhibit, which will remain on view through the end of March.
Starved for Attention is presented as a flat screen floor installation in the Galerija Kresija. ©Ana Kovač
Gallery visitors view the exhibit documentaries and slideshows. ©Eva Hosp/MSF
Slovenian MSF surgeon Danijel Besic speaks to members of the press. ©Eva Hosp/MSF
Slovenia Press Photo Director Matej Leskovsek and "Djibouti: Frustration" photographer Marcus Bleasdale introduce the exhibit. ©Eva Hosp/MSF
Starved for Attention Tours Spain
Friday, February 11th, 2011MSF has organized a traveling multimedia exhibit that will tour six cities in Spain this month. The tour started last week in Barcelona and will end in March in Santiago de Compostela, stopping in Valencia, Malaga, Madrid, and Bilbao on the way.
A large screen projecting images from the Starved for Attention campaign will be on display in one of each city’s main plazas or train stations. MSF volunteers will be on site to answer questions and collect signatures for our petition calling for better quality food aid. The petition, which is addressed to governments supplying international food aid, is nearing 100,000 signatures.
Watch a video of the traveling exhibit here:
The mobile exhibit at the Barcelona Sants train station.
MSF volunteers gather petition signatures.
Starved for Attention at Zurich’s Photo10 Exhibition
Monday, February 7th, 2011MSF presented the Starved for Attention project at the internationally-renowned Photo10 Exhibition in Zurich last month. Over 3,000 visitors watched the films and slideshows and had the opportunity to learn more about MSF’s field work at information booths inside the exhibit.
A panel discussion on the representation of malnutrition through images drew a crowd of 250 people and featured MSF Director of Communications Laurent Sauveur, nutrition policy advisor Stéphane Doyon, and VII photographer and Starved for Attention contributor Franco Pagetti.
Starved for Attention was displayed in a whole room of the Photo10 Showcase. ©Daniela Hobi/MSF
Photo10 visitors take in the Starved for Attention films. ©Natacha Buhler/MSF
Films and slideshows were shown on innovative floor mounted displays. ©Natacha Buhler/MSF
MSF volunteers were on hand to provide information about treating malnutrition in the field. ©Yann Roth/MSF
Boston Public Library Hosts Starved for Attention Panel Discussion and Screening
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010A recent Starved for Attention event at the Boston Public Library featured health experts, aid workers, and photojournalists discussing the causes and potential solutions to combating childhood malnutrition.
Speaking to hundreds of attendees, MSF Communications Director Jason Cone opened the event by explaining that the crisis of childhood malnutrition is “really something we can conquer today with what we know”.
The panel was hosted by WBUR reporter Martha Bebinger and included VII photojournalist and Starved for Attention contributor Jessica Dimmock, MSF aid worker Dr. Marc Levin, Tufts University nutrition expert Patrick Webb, and Boston Medical Center pediatrician Dr. Caroline Kistin.
Watch the panel discussion here and Q & A below:
The Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall was nearly filled to capacity. ©MSF
The panel featured (L to R) Patrick Webb, Caroline Kistin, Martha Bebinger, Marc Levin, and Jessica Dimmock. ©Jeffrey Cone
Patrick Webb discussed his research on food aid and nutrition. ©Jeffrey Cone
The panel took questions from a lively and well-informed audience. ©Jeffrey Cone