The Centre de la photographie Genève (CPG) presents “Edmund Clark et Crofton Black. Cosmopolemos” until Saturday 20 February 2027. The exhibition analyses the US military-industrial complex through images, data and language.
The story
The project is the result of seven years of research. It takes the form of a printed encyclopaedia, “COSMOPOLEMOS: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the United States Department of Defense Contract Spending from 2001/9/11 to 2021/8/30”.
Who organises it
The Centre de la photographie Genève organises the exhibition. Danaé Panchaud and Aline Bovard Rudaz are the curators. The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation supports it.
What to find
The encyclopaedia covers US Department of Defense contracts from 11 September 2001 to the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. They amount to about 6.5 trillion dollars and more than 43 million transactions.
The authors use the Department of Defense’s public photo galleries, their captions and the descriptions of the transactions. In the exhibition, the data and images form an installation.
Edmund Clark is a visual artist. He works with photography, video, found images and installation. Crofton Black is an investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Together they previously published “Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition”.
Practical information
- Dates, 29 Oct. 2026 to Saturday 20 Feb. 2027
- Opening hours, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday 11 am to 8 pm, Saturday 11 am to 4.45 pm, closed on Sundays and Mondays; closed on Tuesday 1 Dec., Saturday 5 Dec. (Escalade race) and from 25 Dec. 2026 to 1 Jan. 2027
- Venue, Bibliothèque de Genève, Espace Ami-Lullin, promenade des Bastions 8, 1205 Geneva
- Price, free admission
Links
- Official site, Centre de la photographie Genève, Cosmopolemos
- All events across French-speaking Switzerland, Genève Infos Agenda
Sources
- Centre de la photographie Genève, Edmund Clark and Crofton Black. Cosmopolemos, accessed 13 November 2026
- City of Geneva, Edmund Clark and Crofton Black. Cosmopolemos, accessed 13 November 2026
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