Photography re invents historic memory. Because it is very easy to forget a name, a place, a person, but there is always an image that reminds in our retina. A memory that will become History.

The Palau Robert in Barcelona, Spain, holds until the 31^st of August, the exhibition “Reuters: The State of the World”. A compilation of 80 photographs from this press agency snaps the events we should never forget of the beginning of the 21^st Century. All of them were made during the period between year 2000 and 2005 and they show current issues such as; terrorism, human conflicts, global warming and natural disasters, immigration, etc.

With no doubt, a beginning of a millennium so full of events that will leave a mark in humanity and that, thanks to the work of the journalists, they have become icons of our recent history.

The intensions of “Reuters: The State of the World” is not just to think over these five years, full of conflicts and disasters, but also pretends to recognize the work of 200 journalists that died while on duty since the year 2000. The media is creating a every time more globalised world and the need for  constant information from everywhere in the world makes that, wherever there is an event, there is also a journalist.

To get an idea, Reuters agency, is one of the most important agencies in the world, receives more than 1500 photographs daily from its internationals correspondents.

The more than 60 photographers that work for Reuters have been witnesses of the mayor worldwide events and for that reason they have left thousands of pictures in archive. The 80 photographs chosen by the Palau Robert in Barcelona is not even half of what the World has lived in these five years of the Century.

But something they all have in common is that each has a unique view.  An instant that moves us and at least will not let us forget easily. From September 11^th attacks, to the earthquakes in Asia in 2004, the war in Irak and the capture of Saddan Hussein, the election of the new Pope, or the Asian economic boost.

The 80 photographs exhibited in “Reuters; The State of the World” were already published in a book of 500, plus several articles of the same agency. This proves that they have been shown in France, China, Germany, England, Greece and Luxemburg.

With the support of Caja Mediterraneo and its Social Work, the exhibition has been around several Spanish cities such as Alicante, Majorca and Valencia. Barcelona will be the closing point of the tour.