PHOTOVILLE RETURNS! September 10-20, 2015

PHOTOVILLE! 

Don't miss these events and everything in-between!

Opening Night, Sept 10: Stars of Rock-n-Roll Photography Clay Patrick McBride, Roberta Bayley, Adrian Boot, Dean Chalkey, Danny Clinch, Mick Rock +many more Curated by Janette Beckman, Julie Grahame and Amanda Gorence.

Closing Day, Sunday Sept 20: Panel "Under Fire: Black Photographers Creating Agency in a “Post-Racial” America" Featuring: Moderator Whitney Richardson, Devin Allen, Sheila Pree Bright, and Radcliffe 'Ruddy' Roye

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Over 60 incredible photography exhibitions, installations, indoors and outdoors, in shipping containers and on cubes....here are a few of my favorites:

RADCLIFFE 'RUDDY' ROY

RADCLIFFE ROYE : READ MORE HERE

JENNIFER McCLURE 

JENNIFER McCLURE : READ MORE HERE

NIGEL MORRIS 

NIGEL MORRIS : READ MORE HERE

DEBI CORNWALL : 
Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play

DEBI CORNWALL : READ MORE HERE

KATHRYN MUSSALLEM 

KATHRYN MUSSALLEN : READ MORE HERE

ZUN LEE

ZUN LEE : READ MORE HERE

 JANETTE BECKMANN : 
 Down + Dirty

JANETTE BECKMAN : READ MORE HERE

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PHOTOVILLE is so large I can't even begin to describe all of the incredible photography exhibitions, installations, indoors and outdoors, in shipping containers and on cubes – you MUST view PHOTOVILLE's awesome website to begin to understand how you cannot miss this event. New Yorkers, New Jerseyans, Connecticutians and visiting Tourists, if you are near New York, check out Photoville September 10 through the 20th!

PHOTOVILLE

DEBI CORNWALL: Gitmo At Home, Gitmo At Play, the Legacy of Guantánamo Bay

Smoke Break, Camp America

Photograph @ Debi Cornwall

Downtown Lyceum (Outdoor Cinema)

Photograph @ Debi Cornwall

Kiddie Pool

Photograph @ Debi Cornwall

I first met Debi Cornwall last year at the opening reception for the NEXT exhibition I juried at Castell Gallery in Asheville, NC. I was impressed by the work she entered from her series "Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play” photographed on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and chose one of the images for the show. This is Debi Cornwall in her own words:

"I trained in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) while completing a Bachelor's degree in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. After working for photographers Mary Ellen Mark and Sylvia Plachy, as an AP stringer, and as an investigator for the federal public defender's office, I attended Harvard Law School and practiced for more than a decade as a civil rights attorney.

Now, my values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as my background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform my visual work. My photographs examine the human experience of systemic injustice, trauma and transition; look to transcend simple labels of "perps" and "victims;" and explore the ways in which spaces reflect conflict and its aftermath.

"Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play," the first chapter in a long-term project on the legacy of Guantánamo Bay, marked my return to visual expression in 2014. The project has been profiled around the world. "

– Debi Cornwall

            DEBI CORNWALL WEBSITE

VETERANS DAY: Jessica Hines + Debi Cornwall

Smoke Break, Camp America

Photograph © Debi Cornwall

"On this Veterans Day, I hope that we will take time out today to think about the wars raging on this planet and do what we can to stop them from happening in the first place. Remember that most of those returning from war continue to fight another kind of battle after they return home -- Post Traumatic Stress injury is invisible to the eye and most tragic in that it effects behavior that can mistakenly be interpreted as character flaw. Vote to support medical aid to those who return with these battle scars."

"If we can borrow trillions of dollars to fight wars, then we can also borrow the same to take care of the people who lived through wars and need care. No excuses." –Jessica Hines, author of My Brother's War

Jessica Hines "My Brothers War" 

 

Debi Cornwall "Gitmo At Home, Gitmo At Play" 

 "My Brother's War"
 Photograph © Jessica Hines

"Remembering my brother, Gary, today. A veteran of the American war in Viet Nam, who developed Post Traumatic Stress injury and although he returned from the war, committed suicide about ten years later. Did you know that more veterans from the war in Viet Nam later committed suicide than actually died in battle?"– Jessica Hines, author of "My Brothers War"