Pierre-Yves Ginet's work is dedicated to the resistance of women in the modern world. His first reports on the struggle of Tibetan nuns, from 1998 to 2001, have forced the photographer, in collaboration with the association Femmes ici et ailleurs (Women here and elsewhere), to widen his focus to the entire globe: between 2001 and 2006, he travelled to seventeen countries to photograph women who, in their own way, are helping to write modern history. Whichever form their actions take, their initiatives are all working towards a single goal: a better future for generations to come.

Through the complexity of women's role in society, the exhibition explores key points such as respect for ethnic minorities, struggles against unjust laws or totalitarian governments, battles to gain full and recognised citizenship, struggles for survival through major epidemics and conflicts or often difficult post-war reconstruction.

Pierre-Yves Ginet has sought to distance himself from the stereotypical representation which depicts women as constant victims, possibly even as martyrs or as a minority to protect. This exhibition is a stark reminder that societies are mixed and that their history is both a "his" and a "hers" story. The women portrayed are not solely concerned with their own problems: they bravely confront the problems of wider society.