With a 50-year career, one of the most important humanist photographers in Brazil, João Roberto Ripper, opened this Monday (15) the free Humanities exhibition, with 20 photos linked to human rights. The exhibition in his honor marks the opening of the Galeria a Céu Aberto, located on the side lawn of the Manguinhos Library, on the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) campus. The photographs cover different moments in Ripper's career, focusing on the most vulnerable populations. At 76 years old, Ripper says that the new gallery opens up space for the discussion of humanities and human rights. Related news: Photographer from Agência Brasil receives honorable mention in award. Images by photojournalist Paulo Pinto are part of exhibitions in São Paulo. Workshop combines photography with AI to create visual creations. "It also opens up space for other photographers to use this space. It is important to create spaces where these works can multiply. Fiocruz will make this material available to human rights organizations", said Ripper. The photographer and curator of the exhibition, Dante Gastaldoni, explains that he chose 20 photos that attempt to dive into Ripper's work, but with a sense of well-being. "‘It’s a photograph that is the result of the relationship of affection between the photographer and those being photographed. We became attached to the affection that overflows from Ripper’s work. It is an ode to love, to affection, to solidarity expressed in photographs”, stated Dante. The public health researcher, professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health Information and Communication at the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information (Icict/Fiocruz) and one of the coordinators of the new gallery, Rodrigo Murtinho, says that he had the idea for the new space in 2018, on a trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. In the neighboring country, he saw a photo exhibition about refugees in an open-air gallery in Parque Rodó. >> Follow the Agência Brasil channel on WhatsApp "There was no one better than Ripper himself to inaugurate this gallery. There are more than 50 years dedicated to human rights in a broad sense. Here, at Fiocruz we work with the expanded concept of health, which is synonymous with citizenship and which dialogues directly with human rights", said Murtinho. These and other records are part of the João Roberto Ripper Collection, at Fiocruz Imagens. Integrating Fiocruz's Open Access initiatives, the project was developed for the conservation and dissemination of the photodocumentarian's work and brings together more than 180 thousand frames on Ripper film that are being digitized and catalogued.