Exhibition of Iconic Images by Magnum Photographers

12.08.2009 - 21.08.2009

Venue: 12 Star Gallery, European Commission, 8 Storey's Gate, London SW1 

Tube: St James' Park / Westminster 

Buses: 11, 24, 148, 211 

Starts on 12 August and continues from 10am-6pm, Monday-Friday until 21 August 2009

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain means above all celebrating a Europe that for the first time in generations is "Whole and Free". Celebrating this anniversary also means celebrating the enormous transformation of a Europe torn apart by war, conflict and hostilities into a Europe, unified in peace and prosperity.  This photo exhibition brings together iconic pictures that have become the witnesses of this transformation.  Seen through the lens of journalists from the renowned "Magnum Photos" cooperative, these images tell us the stories of the uprisings in the streets of Budapest and Prague, of the "Solidarnosc" movement in   Poland and of the first protests in the Baltic states - key moments of our common past.