International Red Cross show the ‘human cost of war’ in online exhibition

From the destruction of Mosul’s largest hospital to the razing of part of Aleppo’s historic Old Bazaar, thousands of images taken by Red Cross volunteers have been put together to show the “human cost of war”. 

The International Committee of the Red Cross has created an immersive experience to show the haunting aftermath of urban conflict by layering 35,000 individual photographs in the first-ever photogrammetric 3D exhibition of the interiors of war-damaged buildings. 

The Broken Cities digital experience takes viewers on a journey through 3D models of Mosul’s Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital, Aleppo’s Old Bazaar and a tower block in Gaza, using witnesses, stories of “endurance, solidarity and revival that emerge from the rubble”. 

“A change of mindset and status quo is urgently needed to reduce the devastating effects of urban warfare war on civilians which are foreseeable and largely preventable,” the Red Cross told Nicky Harley of The National.