This week Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up comes from New York City and features a brilliant exhibition by Debi Cornwall -Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay -at Steven Kasher Gallery, as well as Flint, a story by LaToya Ruby Frazier who was a keynote speaker at Photo Plus Expo in New York yesterday.
Exhibition:
Debi Cornwall - Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guanta?Namo Bay
Debi Cornwall, Compliant Detainee Media Room, Camp 5, U.S. Naval Station Guanta?Namo Bay, Cuba, 2014
“My goal in making this work was to invite people to look at Guantánamo again after almost 16 years. Most of us have stopped looking,” says Debi Cornwall whose first New York solo exhibition - Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay - opened last night at Steven Kasher Gallery.
Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay, is described as “a vivid and disorienting probe into the U.S. Naval Station on Cuba known as “Gitmo.” Cornwall was given access after eight months under strict conditions including the requirement to process and print her medium format film on the base, under the watch of military censors.
Labelled by means of former President Barack Obama as the region where ?We tortured some oldsters?, Guant?Namo Bay through Cornwall?S lens questions the so-known as conflict on terror and ?Examines the compromises we make among decency and worry within the post-Sept. 11 era.?
Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay is a fascinating expose segmented into three bodies of work: Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play and Gitmo on Sale. The exhibition comprises 29 large-scale colour photographs as well as formerly classified documents.
Debi Cornwall, Comfort Items, Camp five, U.S. Naval Station Guanta?Namo Bay, Cuba, 2015
Debi Cornwall, Liberty Center Band Room, U.S. Naval Station Guanta?Namo Bay, Cuba, 2015
Debi Cornwall, Recreation Pen, Camp Echo, U.S. Naval Station Guanta?Namo Bay, Cuba, 2015
Debi Cornwall, Murat, Turkish German (Germany)
Refugee counselor
Held: 4 years, 7 months, 22 days
Released: August 24, 2006
Charges: by no means filed
Containerdorf, Refugee housing
Bremen, Germany, 2015
Debi Cornwall
Anonymous Chinese Uighur (Albania)
Held: 4 years, 7 months Transferred to Albania: May 5, 2006
Charges: by no means filed
Tirana, Albania, 2015
Debi Cornwall
Hamza, Tunisian (Slovakia 2015)
Held: 12 years, 11 months, 19 days
Cleared: January 12, 2009
Transferred to Slovakia: November 20, 2014
Charges in no way filed
By the River Hron, Slovakia, 2015
Panel Discussion:
Saturday 28 October 2.30pm to 5pm
Steven Kasher Gallery and the Center for Constitutional Justice will host a panel dialogue with Debi Cornwall, J. Wells Dixon and Mark Fallon. Moderated by ICP's Fred Ritchin. The panel will discuss Guant?Namo Bay, art, and social justice. The event is unfastened but seating is very confined, please RSVP right here.
Exhibition on until twenty second December
Steven Kasher Gallery
515 W twenty sixth St.,
New York
All snap shots courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery.
Social Issues:
LaToya Ruby Frazier - Flint
At Photo Plus Expo in New York this week I attended the keynote speech Women in Photography offering Sue Bryce, Barbara Davidson and LaToya Ruby Frazier. I turned into particularly excited by Frazier's divulge on Flint, Michigan wherein the horrendous poisoning of that network's water is literally killing its citizens. Others have tackled Flint also, along with Matt Black as part of his amazing Geography of Poverty.
The photo (below) is from a characteristic in Rolling Stone mag and shows the difference among the water in Flint and the water in Detroit, both towns of Michigan. (Photographer unnamed)
(C) LaToya Ruby Frazier
I hadn't heard Frazier talk earlier than. She gave a effective, inspirational discussion on the energy of photography and the ardour that drives her changed into obvious in her voice. Here are a number of her photos featured in Elle mag's function on Flint, a feature that Frazier stated turned into sudden; she never notion a girls's fashion magazine would have any hobby in social problems. It ran over 12 pages.
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