This photographic exhibit celebrates the lives of African American children with black and white images that depict the realism of everyday life through a child's eyes.

The exhibit, sponsored by the citizens of Japan, in collaboration with the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Chicago's Peace Museum, will include artifacts, photographic panels and video installments.

With blood on his shirt, an injured Hussein Ra'ad looks for family members inside his home which is located next door to the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Car bombers struck the ICRC and four police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing about 40 people in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to police and Red Cross reports. The attack, just two months after the bombing of the UN, forced the ICRC to evacuate Iraq. Oct. 27, 2003. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE SINCLAIR/CORBIS

This exhibit is a collective effort of five photographers and five audio producers from the Chicago region, who have documented the lives and work of men and women in service professions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by the year 2012, more than 80% of Americans will work in service industries. This exhibit will include more than a dozen people whose work and lives are part of this transition. The hope is to look beyond the economics of this change, to quantify this shift in the measurements of everyday life, and ultimately to help us better understand each other.

The Peace Museum invites you to experience "Soul of the City" from March through July 2006. Acclaimed photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick lost their home and studio when the Lower Ninth Ward was ravaged by floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. They salvaged their now historic negatives by hand from the debris. Their photos document an entire community captured from inside, which we are now privileged to share with you. Let "Soul of the City" inspire hope that New Orleans will not only be rebuilt, but will be restored to its original composition of culture and color.

A native of Korea who moved to Chicago, Rhim's artwork has become a very personal mission as he strives to materialize his hope and vision of world peace--as well as reconciliation for his divided homeland-through his public art displays. Rhim, who came to Chicago 40 years ago to earn a Master's Degree in Virtual Design from IIT's Institute of Design, has devoted the last three decades to creating art inspired by the city he loves--Chicago.

In 2005, a human rights worker in Baghdad sent out an e-mail describing the plight of a collective of artists there, The Iraqi Plastic Arts Gallery. In response, a humanitarian aid worker met Mr. Muhammed and his daughter Dalya, both members of the collective.

The 36 original paintings will be displayed, accompanied by a video of interviews with the artists.

"Shared Dreams" is an international touring exhibition featuring 36 Cuban and American artists (18 from each country) who’ve collaborated using the Internet and technology to create a series of original digital-art pieces from promoting the themes “Dreams of Peace” and “Love Conquers All.”

Travel 90 miles on a bridge 22 x 28 inches.

Images Against War began as one woman's reaction to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In February 2003, Tina Schelhorn, curator, and director of Galerie Lichtblick in Cologne, Germany, sent an e-mail to her friends in the global photographic community, inviting them to give their visual statements against war. By the end of that month, a website was launched with the work of 100 artists, and an exhibition of 250 images hung in her gallery.