Reporting The World: John Pilger

This exhibition of photographs features compelling stories from around the world.

Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers, on show at Melbourne Museum, demonstrates how photo-journalism can portray stories of people and events to the world.

As a renowned journalist, John Pilger has worked with many photographers for over 30 years. He was born and educated in Sydney. He has been a war correspondent, film-maker and playwright.

Based in London, he has written from many countries and has twice won British journalism's highest award - Journalist of the Year - for his work in Vietnam and Cambodia.

With David Munro he exposed the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge; with Eric Piper he interviewed dissidents in Russia.

Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers was organised by the Barbican Art Galleries and is funded by the Corporation of London.

Read a transcript of John Pilger’s lecture, The Power of Dissent in Words and Pictures (pdf 140kb) given in conjunction with Reporting the World.