They file in quietly through the doors of the Riding School. It's a sombre occasion, the opening of an exhibition by Reuters Foundation photographers at the National Museum in Collins Barracks. Among the 140 photographs, 80 have been taken by children living in conflict zones.
Yannis Behrakis, a photojournalist from Athens, has been covering wars, conflict and catastrophe for 12 years. He wanders along the wall and recalls the situations he has recorded for Reuters.
"I've some nightmares every once in a while," he says. "I guess normal people don't have the kind of nightmares I have." Mark Cullen, a gallery owner, is here with his friend, Aisling McGrane, from Cabinteely. "It's quite disturbing, the images are very harrowing," she says.
Exhibition curator Adam Broomberg, from Johannesburg, is here also, watching the reactions to the images of grief, hunger, pain and displacement. "War is going on in 30 different parts of the world," he says. "It's something that the whole world is going through. It's not just the war. It's the condition of the world."