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"Moving Walls 9" Photography Exhibit at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore
Press Release
BALTIMORE – The Creative Alliance in Baltimore will host Moving Walls 9, a traveling photography exhibit sponsored by the Open Society Institute–Baltimore, from April 13 to May 6, 2006.
The exhibition entitled Damaged Landscapes: Resilient Spirits includes photographs of war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq by Steve McCurry and Sean Hemmerle.
McCurry, a frequent contributor to National Geographic, is a highly regarded photographer who has covered conflicts around the world, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut and Cambodia. The legacy of the Taliban is ever-present in McCurry's images of postwar Afghanistan, photographs that depict a fragile country struggling to forge a new identity in the shadow of a violent past.
Hemmerle, who served in the Army from 1984 to 1988, has photographed New York 's Ground Zero and the American war on terror in Afghanistan. His work appears regularly in Time and New York. In his images of Iraq on display in Moving Walls 9, people are eerily absent; destruction itself is the subject.
The exhibit will also display photographs by Baltimore-based artist Linda Day Clark, who has spent many years documenting the community along Baltimore 's North Avenue. Her work captures the spirit and resilience of people living in a community of many challenges and many joys.
In addition, the exhibit will feature photographs by young people from three Baltimore programs – the Living Classrooms Foundation's Crossroads School, the Baltimore Talent Development High School and Youthlight.
The Crossroads School is a middle school near Fells Point that emphasizes technology and the arts. Students at the Baltimore Talent Development High School in Harlem Park used cameras to document their immediate environments at school, at home, and in their community. Begun in 2001, Youthlight is a community-based after-school opportunity for young people to capture their lives in photographs.
As part of Moving Walls 9, the Open Society Institute–Baltimore is sponsoring a Reception and Educational Forum on Wednesday, April 19, 4:30-6:30 pm. The forum, Damaged Landscapes: Resilient Spirits, will include photographers Sean Hemmerle and Linda Day Clark and Ralph E. Moore Jr., director of community service at St. Frances Academy . The forum begins at 5:15 pm and is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9:30 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
The Open Society Institute curates, organizes and provides financial support for Moving Walls, a series of documentary photograph exhibitions, to enlighten and engage, challenge and inspire viewers. Art on Purpose, an organization that offers art programs in support of education, social justice, and community service, helped the Open Society Institute to coordinate Moving Walls 9 in Baltimore .
Housed in the old Patterson Theater, the Creative Alliance is a community based non-profit organization that presents and promotes the arts and humanities.
Reception & Forum
Location
The Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
When
Wednesday, April 19, 4:30-6:30 pm
Founded by philanthropist George Soros, OSI-Baltimore is a private operating foundation that supports a grantmaking, educational and capacity-building program to expand justice and opportunity for Baltimore residents. OSI-Baltimore fosters debate and empowers marginalized groups to help shape and monitor public policy. It also strengthens communities and families through the development of fair, rational, and responsive public systems. Its current work focuses on helping Baltimore's youth succeed, reducing the social and economic costs of incarceration, tackling drug addiction, and building a corps of Community Fellows to bring innovative ideas to Baltimore's underserved communities.
