Exhibit “Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004”
on display at Union College through March 7
The
Union College Department of Visual Arts is hosting the photography exhibit,
“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004,” from Feb. 18 through March 7
in the Burns Arts Atrium Gallery.
Ten Iraqi civilians were given
disposable cameras in April and May of 2004 by the Daylight Community Arts
Foundation and asked to reveal Iraq as they knew it.
The exhibit consists of 30
exhibition-quality ink-jet color prints ranging in size from 16-by-20 inches to
20-by-24 inches. The exhibition was curated by PixelPress, funded in part by
the Open Society Institute, the Department of Photography & Imaging and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
This exhibition was recently
displayed at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The New Yorker
magazine describes the exhibition as “sublime.” The Los Angeles Times
describes the exhibit as “striking” and reports, “Some pictures
expose scenes of devastation, such as a family that, along with 500 others,
lives in a garbage dump. But the children still play, and life goes on.”
For more information, please visit the website at http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/AVADEPT/iraqphoto.html or call Union's Department of Visual Arts at 388-6714.