With Rodrigo Alcocer de Garay, Yue Cheng, Thaddé Comar (laureat), Luisa Tormenta, Yingying Zhang.
The Centre de la photographie Genève presents the sixth edition of the AOYF Human Rights Photography Award. The Award recognises five projects on a highly topical theme: digital technologies and their impact on our daily lives.
The AOYF Human Rights Photography Award recognises emerging artists for the excellence and originality of their work on current issues related to human rights. The sixth edition of the Award is dedicated to digital technologies and their impact on our daily lives. As new technologies undergo exponential development, some dream of one day seeing the human brain replaced by artificial intelligence. Others fear being overwhelmed by cutting-edge technologies and increased dependence on digital devices. Sometimes revered, sometimes reviled, these advances have undeniably changed our relationship with things and the world, and raise important issues regarding the protection of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and privacy, whether in the real or virtual world. However innovative they may be, these technologies are only tools. What matters, therefore, is how we use them. So how can we ensure that their use benefits as many people as possible? And how can we limit their harmful effects on our human condition? In this era of augmented humans and ubiquitous connectivity, new behaviours must be promoted and new frameworks created to prevent abuse and make these tools more responsible and capable of meeting the great challenges of our time.
