To emphasize that this exhibition is a tool for spreading the "think non-violent" is the same professor Umberto Veronesi: "photography is culture and culture can create in this case, culture of peace, the first objective of the conference Science for Peace".

The soldier holds his rifle, traumatized by the bombs in Vietnam, the shooting of Don McCullin, in the wake of Kosovo by Merillon; planted the American flag on Iwo Jima during the Second World War, the militiaman taken by Robert Capa shot to death in Spanish Civil War. These are just some of the images, true icons of our time, told one after the other recent wars, from Spain in 1936 to Lebanon 2006: seventy years of history of the iconography of the pain. Eighty great icons of photography of the main conflicts in the world. An exhibition that wants to be an opportunity to offer the public a reasoned meditation on the meaning and the symbolic power of images. The photography of war becomes a way to speak knowingly of civilization through its negation. Showing us a world inhospitable, photographers, forcing us to imagine how it could be a different world, and the photograph with his immediate reading becomes a tool for ethical reflection.

Milan, Rotonda della Besana, 20 November 2009 – 10 January 2010