The “Cataracte” exhibition will run from October 2 to November 10, 2024, with a vernissage on October 1, 2024 at 6pm at the Bains des Pâquis, accompanied by readings of Philippe Constantin’s poetic text and a talk by Dr. Tawfik Chamaa of UOSSM. A café-philo will also be organized. This work was presented at the ON/OFF festival in Arles in 2023 and at the Leica Galerie in Geneva. These exhibitions raise public awareness of humanitarian issues while offering a visual immersion in this essential mission. Cataracts, a scourge that indiscriminately affects young and old alike in Africa, were recently the focus of a campaign of ophthalmological operations carried out by the NGO UOSSM in Mozambique. This project was documented by Geneva-based photographer Denis Ponté, whose in-depth knowledge of Africa, acquired through many years of reporting, was brought face to face with a reality as unthinkable as it is harrowing.