The 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 x 20 inches to 20 x 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 call ext. 6714.