Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) is offering a unique opportunity to experience up close what it is like to deliver babies in the midst of conflict.
A free six day exhibition in
Spitalfields Market in London from 22nd to 27th September that lets you step into the life of a British midwife saving the lives of pregnant women and babies in an area of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mired in war.
Groundbreaking 3D
The groundbreaking exhibition uses a 3D photofilm of images taken in the North Kivu area of DRC earlier this year, produced by award-winning digital and broadcast production company duckrabbit.
The stunning 3D photographs and documentary audio will be shown on specially set up Panasonic screens with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology, dedicated 3D glasses and Sennheiser headphones.
Midwife Sam
The story centres around British midwife Samantha Perkins, 29, who returned this year from nine months delivering babies and saving lives in the MSF-supported Masisi hospital in the DRC.
Sam and her team delivered 3,451 babies there last year, a greater number than even the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Because most Congolese women give birth at home, they only come to the hospital if there are complications.
High risk pregnancies
As a result, almost all of those pregnancies were classified as high risk. Were it not for the work of Sam and her team, many of these women and their babies would have died.
“MSF has a long and illustrious history of strong photography but we've never seen or done anything as awesome as these 3D images," said Polly Markandya, Head of Communciations at MSF.
"They bring to life a world most British people only ever see on the news or in television appeals. And they show the positive side – the lives that are saved, the realities of a functioning maternity unit in a remote area where new lives begin every day.”
Peter Rudge, head of 3D at duckrabbit, said: “The 3D imagery in the film is rich, layered and incredibly engaging. The audiences that we’ve shown the material to have been very struck by the immersive and moving nature of the 3D experience.
"They say they’ve never seen anything quite like this before. “
The exhibition will last for six days and is free of charge at Brushfield Street, Spitalfields, London E1 6AA.
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