The exhibition contains over 120 pictures by world-renowned photographers showing the daily grind and harsh existence of people living in Afghanistan, sub-Saharan Africa, and Colombia, as well as in Haiti – destroyed by a terrible earthquake.

The organizers say that the B-side is the reverse side of civilization, the zone of conflicts and catastrophes – social, industrial, and natural – where a person on a daily basis encounters violence, death, and forces majeure.

The exposition consists of three sections – “Catastrophe”, “Intervention”, and “Hope”. Special shows are planned for collections of photographs made by Ron Haviv in Haiti in January 2010, and by Sergey Ponomarev in Chechnya during the epidemic of tuberculosis.

Many of the photographers whose pictures are presented at the exhibition have also been working with MSF for a very long time.

“This exhibition will be an eye-opener to people,” Dr Willem de Jonge, Head of Medecins Sans Frontieres, told RT. “First and foremost, our aim is to raise awareness about the organization and its international nature. Then, to tell them about a different side of life that normally people are not aware of.”