JáFEST 2023: 4 Interrupted Lives Exhibition

This exhibition is dedicated to four journalists who died in the line of duty: Veronica Guerin (Ireland), Anna Politkovskaya (Russia), Natalia Estemirova (Chechnya) and Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta).

It celebrates their courage, their resilience, their belief in freedom of expression, the importance of bearing witness and chronicling the truth without fear or favour, and the universality of human rights.

These four women dared to dream of a society free of corruption, brutality and oppression. We believe their lives and work exemplify values that are worth living by and ideals worth aspiring to.

They personify the values-based approach to journalism that not only records facts but also speaks to human values and emotional truth. We want to use both their achievements and their humanity – their twinned personal and professional realities as people, mothers, professionals – to kickstart a dialogue on the shifting interface between journalistic investigations and the ethics and function of truth in contemporary society.