Photo Exhibit: A Memory of Humanity

Don't miss this rare photo exhibit that bears witness to victims and prisoners of war, “A Memory of Humanity: From Solferino to Guantanamo - 145 Years of Red Cross Photography,” on view through March 31 at the Adams Gallery at Suffolk University Law School. Some of the photos are disturbing reminders of how little we know about our recent past-–and how little we've learned from it.

As Mark Feeney wrote in The Boston Globe, “The names of the wars may change - Franco-Prussian, Serbo-Turkish, Boer, Russo-Japanese, the Spanish Civil War, both world wars, Korean, Vietnam, Arab-Israeli, Falklands, Iraq. The sites are sadly various, too: hospitals, POW camps, quarantine stations, war ruins, orphanages, concentration camps, repatriation centers, emergency warehouses, refugee camps, political prisons, hospital ships. It's the pain and suffering endured that are constant.”

Curiously, there is no explanation of why photos of Guantanamo were not included in the exhibit.