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The Center for Documentary Research and Practice (CDRP) and the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies (CIPS) are thrilled to announce the recipients of the first annual IU Documentary Photography Awards. The competition called for portfolios that inspire change by addressing topics that are socially significant but it allowed for an array of approaches: chronicles of real world events, situations, and environments as well as attention to everyday life. The winners will each receive a $400 prize and have their work exhibited on the CDRP and CIPS websites.  

The first undergraduate recipient of the IU Documentary Photography Award goes to B. Wells Douglas for “Daisy.” Douglas’s portfolio combines a straightforward documentary impulse—recording moments from a life shared with Daisy—with a touching kind of intimacy. The first shot, of Daisy’s face illuminated by her laptop screen, serves as an effective overture for the images that follow. Highlights include a close-up of Daisy’s hands at work, capturing the fact that Daisy’s life is about working with, shaping, transforming, materials; a portrait of Daisy looking down and away from the camera, conveying the exhaustion mentioned in the photographer’s introductory text; a dual portrait of the photographer (represented only by a hand) and Daisy relaxing by a river, with the warm evening light reflecting the warmth of their relationship. A photograph of Daisy lying down, the photographer’s presence indicated by a pair of shoes in the grass, provides another example of how ordinary things carry special meaning in a shared life—and how art may preserve such a message and show that the mundane may sometimes border on the miraculous. B. Wells Douglas’s portfolio is a tribute to love and how it heightens and colors the everyday, the way Daisy’s work also adds color to the lives of her clients. A beautiful, often poetic achievement.

The first graduate recipient of the IU Documentary Photography Awards goes to Zachary Kaufman for “Wabash, Far Away,” a highly ambitious project that explores Indiana communities in transition. The portfolio as a whole is intelligent and intimate, with very accomplished black and white photographs that lend a poetic veneer to the portfolio as a whole. The portraits and landscapes reveal both appreciation and knowledge of the people and places along the river. Because the scope of the project is so far-reaching, the photographs have a fairly loose relation to each other, connected by the winding Wabash River and Kaufman’s sense of his subjects’ shifting places in contemporary American society. A number of photographs stand out in the portfolio: the three gender-ambiguous kids staring down the camera; the “offer of a fish”; the brackish waters in the bridge picture ironically conjuring Monet’s water lilies; and the foregrounded cars driving away from the factory that was once the center of the town. Kaufman attends to displays of patriotism respectfully and to the textures of his materials beautifully—the doubling of muscle/skin/sinew with textiles is particularly striking in image 8. The portfolio is intense, thought-provoking, and visually arresting while at the same time leaving plenty of room to expand into something even larger.

Joshua Malitsky, Media School

James Kelly, Media School

Elizabeth Claffey, Photography

Christoph Irmscher, English

Osamu James Nakagawa, Photography

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College Arts and Humanities Institute: Meet the Author Osamu James Nakagawa and David Ondrik

Thursday, February 11, 2021

4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M on Facebook Live

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Osamu James Nakagawa will give a lecture titled “Beyond Photography,” followed by a discussion with guest David Ondrik. The talk will present work completed since his 2009-10 Guggenheim fellowship project, Gama Caves, in Okinawa. Nakagawa will discuss the development of his artistic concerns and the nature of experimental work, which combines both digital and analog photographic processes. Additionally, he and Professor Ondrik will discuss the exhibition they co-curated, Photographic Occurrences, which will open at the newly-renovated Cook Center at Maxwell Hall opening February 2021.

Hoosier Lifelines

Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020

Grunwald Gallery

February 09, 2021 - March 12, 2021

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to present Hoosier Lifelines: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020, an artistic and historical exploration of Indiana’s changing environment along the remains of the historic Monon Railroad, from the Ohio River’s banks to Lake Michigan’s dunes.

The Monon’s centrality to Indiana’s social and economic life was captured by the company’s mid-twentieth century nickname: the “Hoosier Lifeline.” Today, its trains gone and its tracks largely deserted, the Monon’s path serves as the foundation on which to build a new understanding of the interplay of landscapes, ecosystems, and communities across time and space.

This exhibition features works by IU Photography alum Richard Koening, as well as the Grunwald Gallery Director Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt’s work is also included in Photographic Occurrences.

Image: Abandoned Tower—La Crosse, Indiana, 2020, 20" x 30", Pigment Print Richard Koenig

For more details:
https://soaad.indiana.edu/exhibitions/grunwald-gallery/upcoming/2021-02-09-hoosier-lifelines.html

The Center for Integrative Photographic Studies is pleased to announce the upcoming inaugural show Photographic Occurrences, in person at Maxwell Hall in the newly renovated Gayle Klarch Cook Center for Public Arts and Humanities at Indiana University. The exhibition is co-curated by James Nakagawa, Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography and Director of the Center and IU School of Art, Architecture and Design Lecturer of Photography, David Ondrik.

February 5, 2021 - March 12, 2021

The exhibition is accompanied by an 87 page catalogue designed by Sarah Edmands Martin, featuring essays by IUB Arts and Humanities Council Director Edward P. Comentale and Eskenazi Museum of Art Assistant Curator of Photography Lauren Richman.

In March 2020, CIPS was prepared to host Japanese daguerreotypist Takashi Arai, when it became necessary to cancel his visit due to the spread of COVID-19. This initial cancellation prompted CIPS director James Nakagawa’s desire to plan an exhibition to display Arai’s work, alongside a retrospective display of the Indiana University Photography Department’s own Henry Holmes Smith’s legacy of fine art work beginning in the 1940s.

Smith was the co-founder of the Society for Photographic Education, as well as the founder of one of the first graduate programs for photographic study. Works on display represent twenty three contemporary and historically significant photographers working in material exploration directly influenced by Smith’s legacy of experimentation with antique photographic processes. From direct students of Henry Holmes Smith such as Jerry Uelsmann and Betty Hahn to current IU SOAAD faculty and recent IU MFA alumni, a breadth of physical manifestations of photographic processes invite the viewer to feel these works with their eyes.

Join us on February 5th at 5pm on Facebook Live for the virtual opening

Image: Sarah E. Martin

Via Donna Ferrato:

This Kickstarter runs until 12/6/2020 at 10:25am

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/donna-ferrato/holy-the-book-by-donna-ferrato/description

"This is an offer I hope you will not refuse. A chance to get the book of HOLY and all of its perks right away. I pre-purchased 1000 books to be able to guarantee the books will be delivered before the end of 2020 and before they reach the bookstores.

This book is a call to action.

HOLY is about the unleashed power of women. What women gained over the last 50 years. The hard-won freedom that women are losing. Why every woman's autonomy is sacrosanct.

My stepdaughter in London, feminist writer Kat Holden, inspired me to bring my most powerful photographs together in one book. Honoring the full dimension of women's lives. Her essay describes why this book even exists.

“I can't think of any photojournalist who has documented the extremes of human passion more intensively nad extensively than Donna. No one has better captured the 360º picture of walking this Earth as a female.

There used to be a time when her study of women was split, over here the 'domestic violence' work and over here, the 'sex' work. The combination of the two is vital. It is only in that combination do we see the whole spectrum of the truth of what it is to be a woman. The contradictions we are expected to embody; the virgin and the whore, the vulnerable and the invincible, the mother, and the daughter." (Katherine Holden, an excerpt from Holy the book)

HOLY is 100% handmade. It is a work about love and the unassailable Mother of God-given rights of women. All women means LGBTQ, undocumented, religious, non-religious, gender fluid: people who live to love and be loved in return.

It’s been a labor of love and I spared no expense to create a 21st-century work of art. With handwritten captions. Engine red page edges, the finest duotones, and rich gorgeous professional 4 color printing. Everyone in the book gets a signed copy of Holy.

I hope you get your Holy copy."

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them." Margaret Atwood

A Tacit Inheritance: Elizabeth M. Claffey & Rania Matar

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“A Tacit Inheritance” features two distinct bodies of work by Elizabeth M. Claffey and Rania Matar, each exploring the themes of identity and memory through broader experiences of women across generations and cultures.

Claffey’s Matrilinear offers a poetic window to layers of memory, through object portraits that represent a common thread of past, present, and future. In Matar’s meticulously crafted portrait series Unspoken Conversations, she explores womanhood at two seminal stages of life, adolescence and middle age.

A Tacit Inheritance, supported in part by the Aurora PhotoCenter, will remain on view for in-person visits in the Marsh Gallery until Nov. 20 and available online as a virtual 360-degree tour through Jan. 10. The Herron Galleries will be closed to the public during IUPUI’s online instruction period from Nov. 21 to Feb. 8.

A virtual reception with the exhibiting artists will take place on Zoom from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Nov. 12. To participate, register in advance online or watch the livestream at facebook.com/HerronGalleries.

Herron’s exhibitions in Eskenazi Hall, 735 W. New York St., are free of charge and open to the public from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with the exception of the online instruction period from Nov. 21 to Feb. 8.

Gallery operations are subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit HerronGalleries.org or call 317-278-9410 for more up-to-date information on health and safety protocols, exhibitions, virtual tours, gallery hours, and parking.

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Shane Lavalette — Will with Banjo, 2011 from One Sun, One Shadow

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Shane Lavalette is an American photographer, independent publisher, and the director of Light Work, a non-profit photography organization in Syracuse, New York. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Aperture Foundation, Montserrat College of Art, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kaunas Gallery, Le Château d’Eau, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Musée de l’Elysée, and Robert Morat Galerie, in addition to being held in private and public collections. Lavalette is the author of four monographs: One Sun, One Shadow[Lavalette, 2016], Still (Noon) [Edition Patrick Frey, 2018], LOST, Syracuse [Kris Graves Projects, 2019], and New Monuments [Libraryman, 2019]. One Sun One Shadow was selected as one of the “Best Books” by photo-eye, nominated for the Kassel Photobook Award 2017, and shortlisted for the Author Book Award 2017 at Les Rencontres d’Arles. Lavalette’s work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME, NPR, CNN, The Telegraph, Foam Magazine, Hotshoe, among others, and his editorial work has accompanied stories in various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Topic, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Curbed, Vice Magazine, The Wire, Wallpaper, Monocle, and The Guardian. Lavalette is represented by Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin and We Folk agency in London/New York.

Website: http://www.shanelavalette.com

Donna Ferrato is an internationally-known documentary photographer. Her gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity, have made her a giant in the medium. She has participated in over 500 one-woman shows and has received awards such as the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography (1987), the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism (2003), and the Gender Fairness Award from the New York State Supreme Court Judges (2009). She founded a non-profit called Domestic Abuse Awareness for over a decade. In November 2016, TIME magazine announced her photograph of a woman being hit by her husband (1982) as one of the “100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time.” Currently, Ferrato is documenting her rapidly-changing New York neighborhood of Tribeca for a new book.

CIPS and Your Art Here will collaborate to unveil a billboard of Donna's design with funding through the IU Public Arts Grant and the city of Bloomington.

The billboard will be on display at N. 6th St and Walnut Avenue in Bloomington, IN in October 2020.

Register for the talk here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu2trzgqGtLtw0uaf3SRv4QMNeUcSMPi

Donna will present a virtual Artist Talk with funding support from OVPR and Your Art Here.

Artist's website: http://www.donnaferrato.com/

Public Arts Grant

This work is currently on view starting October 9, 2020 at 6th and Walnut and is funded by the OVPR Public Arts Grant.

CIPS would like to formally thank Mia Beach and her team of volunteers of Bloomington nonprofit Your Art Here for their collaboration on our upcoming CIPS lecture with Donna Ferrato, as well as the new installation of Donna Ferrato's billboard.

If you're near Bloomington, stop by to see it in person!

Photograph by James Nakagawa

“Wild Horse Running: The Courageous Journey of Tom Fox," sponsored by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, launches with a panel discussion this Friday, October 2, from 5 to 6 p.m. EST.

Tom Fox, who graduated from Bloomington High School South and Indiana University, wanted to turn his personal struggle into a positive experience that would educate readers and viewers about the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The opening panel focuses on Tom Fox’s courageous decision to share his struggle with a country that was terrified of this strange disease and prejudiced toward gay men. It will also explore what AIDS was like in the 1980s before there was medical hope, and the current state of the HIV-AIDS crisis, which may have dropped out of the national conversation, but has not gone away.

In his own words, "If I could help one person open his mind to this problem, I would feel like I made a difference."

Featured on the panel will be: medical writer Steve Sternberg and photojournalist Michael A. Schwarz, the two journalists who documented Tom’s final months for publication in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Also on the panel is Dr. William Cooke, who was named Family Physician of the Year for Indiana in 2016 and the United States in 2019, in honor of his work treating HIV/AIDS patients in Austin, Indiana. The fourth panelist is Doug Bauder, an ordained pastor who recently retired as founding director of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center at Indiana University.

You can join the exhibition opening and panel by going to this facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1608126726031106

Although the opening is part of Bloomington’s First Friday Gallery Walk, the exhibition will remain online for several months at this URL:

https://www.courageoftomfox.com/

Image description: Tom Fox's family surrounds him in the hospital just before his death on July 11, 1989. Photo by Michael A. Schwarz

Deborah Jack (1970) is an artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. As a multi-media artist she engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of cultural memory, climate change while negotiating a global present. Her work was recently on view at the Perez Art Museum of Miami in the 2019-2020 exhibition The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, and TENT Rotterdam. In early 2021 she will present a 15-year survey exhibition at Pen & Brush in New York City. Group exhibitions include the traveling museum exhibition, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, which opened at the Museum ofLatin American Art in Los Angeles, (also the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, the Frost Museum at FIU, Portland Museum in Maine.)Her work has been exhibited at the 2014 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jersey City Museum, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and Delaware Art Museum. Residencies include a Lightwork, the Big Orbit Summer Residency. Her work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Frieze, Art Burst Miami, and Hyperallergic. Deborah is currently a Professor at New Jersey City University.

Artist's website: https://www.deborahjack.com/

Register for the online event here: https://soaad.indiana.edu/events/speaker-series/mckinney-series/upcoming/2020-09-18-deborah-jack.html

Please join us for a noon panel discussion in which Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde will perform an ekphrastic poem written in response to Professor Deborah Jack’s work. A moderated discussion will follow, exploring overlapping themes embodied in the work of both artists.

Deborah Jack, (1970) is an artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. As a multi-media artist she engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of cultural memory, climate change while negotiating a global present. Her work was recently on view at the Perez Art Museum of Miami in the 2019-2020 exhibition The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, and TENT Rotterdam. In early 2021 she will present a 15-year survey exhibition at Pen & Brush in New York City. Group exhibitions include the traveling museum exhibition, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, which opened at the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles, (also the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, the Frost Museum at FIU, Portland Museum in Maine.) Her work has been exhibited at the 2014 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jersey City Museum, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and Delaware Art Museum. Residencies include a Lightwork, the Big Orbit Summer Residency. Her work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Frieze, Art Burst Miami, and Hyperallergic. Deborah is currently a Professor at New Jersey City University.

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, doula, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work are grounded in contemplative practices and respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. Dr. Abegunde is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Wishful Thinking about the 2001 disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley in Chicago. Anthologized poems are included in Gathering Ground, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, and Catch the Fire. Her poetry has also been published in Tupelo Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and Cogzine. Excerpts of her memory work, The Ariran’s Last Life, have been published in Best African American Fiction and The Kenyon Review. Essays have been published in North Meridian Review and FIRE!!! She is the commissioned poet for the exhibitions Be/Coming and Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams. Her book chapter “Seeing as a Ritual for a Good Death: The Spiritual Construction of Alain Gomis’ Film Tey”appears in Ashe: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity (edited by Michael Harris, Paul Carter Harrison, and Pellom McDaniels III). Dr. Abegunde has received fellowships from Cave Cane, Ragdale, Sacatar, and the NEH. She is a faculty member in AAADS and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center in the University Graduate School.

Jessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor to BOMB Magazine and has interviewed artists such as Howardena Pindell, El Anatsui, Rirkrit Tiravanjia and others. Her poetry can be found in Poet Lore, Indiana Review, The Common, [PANK], Prairie Schooner and others. Her debut poetry collection am●phib●ian won the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize from Broadside Lotus Press. Her short fiction can be found in Tahoma Literary Review, Duende, and Black Candies. In 2020, the opera she libretted, Virgula Divina, composed by Karen Brown, will premiere at with Pittsburgh Festival Opera program Fight for The Right. She is a 2018 recipient of a Millay Colony Residency. Also, in 2018, Jessica Lanay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Milk. Milk. Milk," that appeared in The Normal School. Please join us for this noon talk between Deborah Jack and Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde; moderated by IU PhD candidate, Jessica Lanay.

Register for this online event here: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOChpzgoG9MK1QA_oOY2yudd0kKQnbIv

Coco Fusco lecture: “The Unbearable Weight of Utopia: Cuban Artists Confront the State”

This event is open to members of the IU Community only

Register here for the Zoom link: https://events.iu.edu/cahi/view/event/date/20200409/event_id/98429

Coco Fusco has been pushing the boundaries between art, thought, and activism for thirty years. She explores race, war, gender, and questions of identity through performance, large-scale projections, web-based streaming, closed-circuit television, publication, sculpture, and forms of interactional aesthetics. From “Couple in a Cage” (1992-94), in which Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña presented themselves in a cage as “undiscovered Amerindians”—a piece chosen for the 1993 Whitney Biennial—to new video work on contemporary Cuba, Fusco has assembled a body of work that truly deserves the appellation “interdisciplinary.”

Fusco is Andrew Banks Endowed Professor of Art at the University of Florida. She has exhibited around the world—Sydney, Shanghai, Porto Alegre, Johannesburg, and on and on—and has received the 2016 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Absolut Art Award for Art Writing, among other recognitions. A Cuban-American herself, Fusco is author most recently of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015).

These events are co-sponsored by the College Arts + Humanities Institute, the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, and the Department of Art History. For more information, please email cahi@indiana.edu or call (812) 856-1169.

POSTPONED: In conjunction with IU/CDC travel restrictions, which prevent travel from Japan at this time. (Updated 3/2/2020)

Takashi Arai (1978-) is a Japanese visual artist and filmmaker. Arai first encountered photography while he was a university student of biology. In an effort to trace photography to its origins, he encountered daguerreotype, and after much trial and error mastered the complex technique. Since the beginning in 2010, when he first became interested in nuclear issues, Arai has used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records—micro-monuments—of his encounters - records that touch upon the fragmented reality of events in the past. Since 2017, Arai has been actively working as a researcher for interdisciplinary studies, such as “Interdisciplinary Studies of Radiation Effects on the Everyday Life of Victims” (National Museum of Ethnology).

Arai's works are included in collections such as SFMOMA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Musee Guimet, among others.

In 2020, CIPS and Your Art Here will collaborate to unveil a billboard of Takashi's design with funding through the IU Public Arts Grant and the city of Bloomington.The billboard will display from February 15 - March 31, 2020 is located at 101 E 6th Street 47408 in downtown Bloomington.

Public Arts Grant

Freddy McConnell and Director Jeanie Finlay are scheduled to be present.

Free, but ticketed. Visit cinema.indiana.edu for tickets.

This partnership is supported through IU Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program. Curated by Sarah Knott of the Department of History, with support from IU Cinema, the Department of Gender Studies, Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Center for Integrative Photographic Studies, Center for Sexual Health Promotion, and The Kinsey Institute.

Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family, but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges. He is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality of pregnancy, as both a physical experience and one that challenges society’s fundamental understanding of gender, parenthood, and family. This moving documentary follows Freddy McConnell’s pregnancy and birth, as he navigates fertility clinics, birth services, and a wealth of awkward, inspiring, telling conversations with family and friends. The experience remakes his relationships, his identity, and his future. Contains mature content.

Andy Mattern’s recent work engages photography’s aesthetic conventions and physical materials as subject matter. Since 2015, he has served as Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at Oklahoma State University. His work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Tweed Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His photographs have been reviewed in publications such as ARTFORUM, The New Yorker, Camera Austria, and Photonews. He holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Minnesota and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico.

Optimal Conditions will be on view at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts February 7th, 2020 to March 28th, 2020.

Empathy: An Exhibition of Collaborative Artwork Presented by the MFA Photography Department at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design

Powerplant 415 W 4th Street, Bloomington, IN 47404 Friday, February 7th 6-9pm

Empathy is the cumulation of the collaborative effort of artists to come together and share life experiences. By bringing together a mix of artists and scholars, Empathy represents relationships and conversations in which photographers and collaborators get to glimpse into the encounters and daily challenges of individuals from other walks of life. The Indiana University Graduate Photography program proudly presents a wide array of partnerships that create a space for an open dialogue about identity, discrimination, and the culture of “otherness.”

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, Matar's cultural background, cross-cultural experience, and personal narrative inform her photography. She has dedicated her work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity, through photographs of female adolescence and womanhood – both in the United States where she lives and the Middle East where she is from, in an effort to focus on notions of identity and individuality all within the context of the underlying universality of these experiences. She has received several grants and awards including a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections worldwide.

The Eskenazi Museum of Art recently acquired her work Darine 7 and Dania 8, Beirut Lebanon, 2014 from the series L'Enfant Femme.

Jay Turner Frey Seawell is a photographer based in Los Angeles,CA. He earned his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. His photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States as well as the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Seawell is a two-time nominee of The Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Seawell is the 2016 recipient of the Award for Innovation in the Documentary Arts from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. His first photobook National Trust was published by Skylark Editions. Seawell was a winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward competition in 2018.

Born in Sherman, Texas, Hocker completed a BA in history at Rice University (1966) and a MS in photography from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Insititute of Technology, Chicago (1969). He has worked as a photographer for the United States Army and Inland Steel Corporation, and has taught photography at Purdue University, in Calumet, Indiana and a number of other subjects over the years, including Central America, immigration and the celebration of quinceañeras in Northwest Indiana and Chicago's South Side. He's traveled the world and shot everything from tensions between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland to Eastern European culture at Orthodox churches in Northwest Indiana.

Founder and Publisher of Waltz Books in Indianapolis, Indiana

As a small business owner, Mary Goodwin attends to every aspect of producing, promoting, and distributing cutting-edge photo books that contribute to the dialog on contemporary photography. Goodwin works with various teams, including photographers, designers, production managers, and warehouse personnel, to fulfill the artistic vision as well as collaborates with artists to perfect image selection and sequence within the book format. Waltz Books contributes to the dialog on contemporary art by providing creative and financial support for the production of ground-breaking photobooks by collaborating with a wide variety of artists, book designers, and printers. Providing an independent forum for innovative photobook projects, Waltz Books seeks projects that require a close relationship between the book format and the photographic image and offers support to artists who wish to self-publish.

Image: On a Wet Bough by Keliy Anderson-Staley, published by Waltz Books

Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980 Hazleton, PA) is a photographer based in Atlanta, GA where he teaches photography at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in The California Sunday Magazine, PDN, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, GUP Magazine and Oxford American and is in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New York Public Library, the Do Good Fund and the High Museum of Art.

Jeremy Hogan was born and raised in California and began freelancing for newspapers while still in high school. He is a graduate of the photojournalism program at San Jose State University, and has a bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism. After a series of internships he began working for The Herald-Times, a small newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana, but has always pursued personal projects on his own. He is represented by Polaris Images for still photography, and is a contributing filmaker to Getty Images. His interests are many, but his time is limited. He is currently making a documentary film about Vietnam Veterans from his father's combat unit during the war, among his many projects. Last year he took time off work and covered the 2016 presidential election.

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, having, in 1976, become founding curator of the photography department for which she acquired over 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents. She curated or co-curated over 40 exhibitions, most with accompanying catalogues, including surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, a history of Japanese photography, and a history of war photography as well as exhibitions with catalogues on works of Robert Frank, Brassai, Catherine Wagner, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Misrach, Ray Metzker, Louis Faurer, George Krause, and Chen Changfan. Published and soon-to-be published interviews with photographers include Erika Diettes, Mark Klett, and Brad Temkin. She has also contributed articles to over 150 magazines, books and other catalogues and has lectured throughout the North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Her honors, fellowships, and awards include being selected as “American’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001 in an issue devoted to America’s Best as well as Randolph-Macon Woman's College’s, Alumnae Achievement Award in 1993. She has been a trustee of FotoFest since 1990 and the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation since 2016 and served as a trustee of Randolph College between 2008 - 2018

While continuing to work in retirement (friends have pronounced her a failure at retirement), she is an active gardener, Astros fan, movie buff, and reader. Robert Morris, architect and painter is her life partner.

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, having, in 1976, become founding curator of the photography department for which she acquired over 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents. She curated or co-curated over 40 exhibitions, most with accompanying catalogues, including surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, a history of Japanese photography, and a history of war photography as well as exhibitions with catalogues on works of Robert Frank, Brassai, Catherine Wagner, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Misrach, Ray Metzker, Louis Faurer, George Krause, and Chen Changfan. Published and soon-to-be published interviews with photographers include Erika Diettes, Mark Klett, and Brad Temkin. She has also contributed articles to over 150 magazines, books and other catalogues and has lectured throughout the North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Her honors, fellowships, and awards include being selected as “American’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001 in an issue devoted to America’s Best as well as Randolph-Macon Woman's College’s, Alumnae Achievement Award in 1993. She has been a trustee of FotoFest since 1990 and the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation since 2016 and served as a trustee of Randolph College between 2008 - 2018

While continuing to work in retirement (friends have pronounced her a failure at retirement), she is an active gardener, Astros fan, movie buff, and reader. Robert Morris, architect and painter is her life partner.

Drawing on identity photos taken by the Portuguese political police during the dictatorship, Susana de Sousa Dias explores the possibility of representing a repressed history and giving an account of the torture now erased. In her use of photos and testimonies from those close to an assassinated communist activist during the Salazar dictatorship, Luz Obscura invents a form that reveals how an authoritarian system operates within family intimacy and recreates the feeling of a family's broken identity. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Susana de Sousa Dias is an award-winning Portuguese independent filmmaker. She teaches New Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and is an author of diverse essays on cinema, mainly dealing with subjects related to her work.

This event is part of the film series, “Women Filmmakers at the Intersection of Documentary, Video Art, and Avant Garde,” curated by Joshua Malitsky and Masha Vlasova. This series is sponsored by the Center for Documentary Research and Practice; the School of Art, Architecture + Design; and IU Cinema. This partnership is supported through IU Cinema’s Creative Collaborations program and the College Arts and Humanities Institute.

Born in Germany, lives and works in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.

After a degree in Materials Science Engineering, Isabelle Le Minh settled in Berlin in 1989 to work as a patent engineer. She finally left behind her career to attend the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 1993. After graduating, she developped a photographic work combining conceptual and documentary approaches. The digital revolution led her to then drift away from photography to reflect upon the image in a broader way.

Le Minh was nominated for the Vevey Book Award (2017), the Luma Book Award (2016), the Niépce Prize (2014) and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (longlist, 2012). She is the winner of the Adagp Artist Book Prize (2016), and was awarded of a grant from the National Foundation for Fine Arts (2013). Her work, has been exhibited in numerous venues and festivals, such as The Month of Photography in Montreal, the Rencontres d’Arles, Paris Photo, the Ile-de-France Center for Photography, the Frac Normandy Rouen, the French Society of Photography, the Maison Rouge in Paris, the Mulhouse Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Riga Art Space, Dorfman Projects New York, etc.

Le Minh teaches at the Rouen High School of Art and is also a curator. She is represented by the Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris.

Photojournalist, author, and educator Steve Raymer — a long-time National Geographic Magazine staff photographer and senior editor — taught visual journalism, media ethics, international newsgathering, and reporting war and terrorism at the Indiana University Media School for 21 years.

After serving as an officer in the United States Army, he joined the staff of National Geographic in 1972, launching a career that has taken him to more than 100 countries. From famines in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Raymer’s photographs illustrated more than 30 bylined National Geographic Magazine articles, as well as numerous other Geographic articles, books, and multimedia presentations.

Among his notable National Geographic stories were pieces about the global hunger crisis (1975), the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline (1976), the worldwide illegal trade in endangered animals (1981), Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul under Soviet occupation (1985), the humanitarian work of the International Committee of the Red Cross in more than a dozen war zones around the world (1986), the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (1987), and the tumultuous birth of a new and independent Russia (1990, 1991, 1993).

In 2018, Indiana University Press will publish his photographic memoir titled Somewhere West of Lonely: My Life in Pictures. To learn more about Steve, visit his website: https://www.steveraymer.com/.

Richard Ross will talk about his Juvenile in Justice series and his experience documenting incarcerated youth throughout America. Ross is a photographer, researcher and professor of art based in Santa Barbara, California.

Ross has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Annie E. Casey and MacArthur Foundations. Ross was awarded both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. His most recent work, the Juvenile In Justice series, turns a lens on the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities that treat, confine, punish, assist and, occasionally, harm them. Two books and traveling exhibitions of the work continue to see great success while Ross collaborates with juvenile justice stakeholders, using the images as a catalyst for change.

Ross's exbhibition, Juvenile In Justice, will be opening later that evening at 7:30pm in the City Hall Showers Building Atrium. To view the full schedule of events, visit the Eskenazi Museum's website.

The full two days of events are funded by the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and the Arts and Humanities Council at Indiana University Bloomington through the Public Arts Grant and are supported by the City of Bloomington, IU Eskenazi Museum of Art, IU Media School, Your Art Here, Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, Ivy Tech Center for Lifelong Learning, Monster House Press, Rhino's Youth Center, Pages to Prisoners, and the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies.

Patrick Fraser is a British photographer and filmmaker. He photographs editorial features for magazines like Vanity Fair, British Vogue and Esquire as well as color supplements The Sunday Times, Observer and Guardian. His portrait work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Patrick continues to make documentary and experimental films and his first narrative short film will be released this year, in 2018. To learn more about Patrick Fraser, visit his website.

Ariella Azoulay is a Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Azoulay studies revolutions from the 18th century onward and investigates how historical knowledge is portrayed through photographs, sketches, cinema, and other visual media. The Israeli political regime has been a primary focus of her work.

An expert in visual culture and photography, Ariella Azoulay focuses her research on how history is told through visual mediums — photographs, film, drawings, and other visual elements — and how these provide a level of detail and context not provided solely by the written word. She comes to Brown from a rich career of teaching, writing, and curating in Tel Aviv.

She is Curator of the archive "Act of State 1967-2007" ( Centre Pompidou, 2016), Enough! The Natural Violence of the New World Order (F/Stop festival, Leipzig, 2016), "The Natural History of Rape," Pembroke Hall, Brown University, “The Body Politic” [in Really Useful Knowledge, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW], Reina Sofia, Madrid; When The Body Politic Ceases To Be An Idea, Exhibition Room - Manifesta Journal Around Curatorial Practices No 16 (folded format in Hebrew, MOBY, 2013), Potential History (2012, Stuk / Artefact, Louven), Untaken Photographs (2010, Igor Zabel Award, The Moderna galerija, Lubliana; Zochrot, Tel Aviv), Architecture of Destruction (Zochrot, Tel Aviv), and Everything Could Be Seen (Um El Fahem Gallery of Art). Azoulay is a director of documentary films, including Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012), I Also Dwell Among Your Own People: Conversations with Azmi Bishara (2004), The Food Chain (2004).

This lecture cosponsored by the Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice and the Borns Jewish Studies Program.

To learn more about Azoulay's work, visit her website at http://cargocollective.com/AriellaAzoulay.

Through the work of artist photographers Tara Bogart, Elizabeth M. Claffey, Joy Christiansen Erb, Letitia Huckaby, Priya Kambli and Rachelle Mozman, Kinship examines the influence of family life on personal and cultural identity. Each artist delves into the complex nature of family structures to express how it shapes internal dialogue and personal narrative. Through various avenues of investigation such as family lore and heritage, this exhibition addresses what it means to embody familial identity, while experiencing otherness within a public and private context. Within a patriarchal system, knowledge and inquiry are considered currency of the public sphere. Kinship aims to challenge this assumption by exploring the deep knowledge base developed through living in and observing domestic space, caring for others, and nourishing family. Mainstream media representations of home can reinforce normative scripts that fail to express the conflicts and rewards of family life. Through the efforts of these six artists, the viewer might consider the value of womanhood and the multifaceted roles that women play within the domestic sphere.

In conjunction with the Power of Words lecture series, hosted by Friends of the Library and the Monroe County Public Library, James Nakgawa will be giving a gallery talk in the Grunwald Gallery. Osamu James Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls professor of Photography at Indiana University. Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 John Simon Guggenheim fellowship and 2010 Higashikawa A New Photographer Award in Japan. His collaborative exhibition, A Shared Elegy, including the work of Emmet Gowin, Elijah Gowin, and Takayuki Ogawa will be on view in the Grunwald Gallery from Friday, October 13, 2017 to Thursday, November 16, 2017.

This talk is part of the Monroe County Public Library's Power of Words series. It is brought to you through a partnership between the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art, the Friends of the Library, and the Monroe County Public Library.

Panel Discussion:

Emmet Gowin, Elijah Gowin, James Nakagawa, and Yoshiko Suzuki.

Moderated by Joel Smith 3:00 PM, Fine Arts Room 015

Lecture:

Emmet Gowin

5:00pm, FA 015 - McKinney Visiting Artist Series

Opening Reception:

6-8pm, Grunwald Gallery

A Shared Elegy presents the work of four photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father Emmet Gowin present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories. Nakagawa, like his uncle Ogawa, grew up in Japan and draws upon his country’s traditions and the practice of honoring elders. Family heritage and home in Virginia have inspired the Gowins to make photographs that depict the intimate and hallowed nature of the world. These photographs compel us to reflect on our own lineage and consider our place in the progression of generations and the cycle of life.

The three exhibiting photographers have been invited to participate in a panel discussion moderated by Joel Smith, Curator of Photography at the Morgan Library and an essayist for the book. In addition, Yoshiko Suzuki, Curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will serve on the panel and participate in the events. A 108-page book, A Shared Elegy, will be produced in collaboration with the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art and distributed through IU Press. A Shared Elegy exhibition is scheduled to travel to the Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2018.

For the full schedule of events:
https://studioart.indiana.edu/grunwald/exhibitions/current-upcoming-exhibitions/a-shared-elegy.html

Light/Matter is an exhibition curated by Tracy Templeton, Associate Professor in Studio Art at Indiana University; Walter Jule, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and Ingrid Ledent, Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium. The exhibition will feature up to seventy works by forty-five artists spanning sixteen countries in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

Beginning in the mid 20th century, the photo print revolution created a new graphic language through the fusion of photographic imagery and analog print techniques that continues to shape global “visual literacy” in the digital age. Light/Matter marks the first time a major museum exhibition has presented groundbreaking works by several generations of artists who have made significant contributions to the photo-print movement. The exhibition will also serve to illustrate the ways in which cultural factors and traditions have influenced the adoption and evolution of new print technologies.

This exhibition and symposium is made possible by the New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities, the College Arts and Humanities Institute and the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies, McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the IU Student Association and the Print Workshop, all at Indiana University.

Wednesday, August 23

Introductory Lecture by Walter Jule (Canada) 5:30 – 6:30pm, Fine Arts 015

Open House Tours of Printmaking Studios and Reception 6:30 – 8:00pm, Arts Annex

Thursday, August 24

Noon Hour Slide Lectures by Exhibiting Artists 12:00– 1:00pm, Memorial Union, Oak Rm

Lecture by Nan Brewer – Pop Art and Printmaking 1:00 – 1:30pm, Memorial Union, Oak Rm

Lecture by Ingrid Ledent (Belgium) 4:30 – 5:30pm, Psychology, 100

Lecture by Alicia Candiani (Argentina) 5:30 – 6:30pm, Psychology, 100

Friday, August 25

Noon Lectures by Exhibiting Artists 12:00 – 1:00pm, Global Int. 0001

Panel Discussion 3:00 – 4:30pm, Theatre Drama Center A201

McKinney Lecture by Tetsuya Noda (Japan) 5:00 – 6:00pm, Fine Arts 015

Opening Reception of Light/Matter 6:00 – 8:00pm, Grunwald Gallery

For more details:
https://studioart.indiana.edu/grunwald/exhibitions/current-upcoming-exhibitions/light-matter.html

Brad Temkin is best known for his photographs of contemporary landscape. His work is held in numerous permanent collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. His images have appeared in such publications as Aperture, TIME Magazine and European Photography. A monograph of Temkin’s work entitled Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens (Center for American Places) was published in 2005. Temkin’s second book entitled ROOFTOP (Radius Books) was released Fall 2015. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia College in Chicago since 1984.

Jeffrey Wolin's new book, "Pigeon Hill: Then & Now" documents a Bloomington, IN community across three decades. Sparked by the death of Hill resident and IU graduate student Ellen Marks in 1986, Wolin became interested in the low-income neighboorhood and began to make portraits of the residents, a practice which he continued for four years. Decades later, a second murder brought Wolin back to Pigeon Hill. Crystal Grubb, a wife and mother whom Wolin had photographed as a young girl.

"Pigeon Hill: Then and Now" is an epic exploration of the ways in which experiences in life – good and bad – are written into the faces of this community. Please join us to celebrate with Jeff Wolin. The book will be on sale at Pictura.

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to parents of Chinese descent, Chee Wang Ng lives and works in New York City. Ng earned his BFA in Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. His work has been featured in film festivals and included in group exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Asian American Arts Centre, Museum of Chinese in America,and 22.dokumentART in Szczecin, Poland. Ng's work including large-scale conceptual photography, video, and installation work will be on view at the Eskenazi Museum of Art from March 11–May 7, 2017.

Faye Gleisser is a curator, poet, and art historian, based in Bloomington, Indiana where she is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art. She has worked in a number of art institutions, including but not limited to the Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.​ Gleisser completed her Ph.D. in Art History at Northwestern University. Her doctoral research focused on U.S.-based performance artists’ appropriation and deployment of guerrilla tactics in urban centers throughout the 1970s. More broadly, her research considers articulations of race and gender in contemporary art and the violence of the photographic archive. Her art criticism has appeared in Artforum, Aperture, and NewCriticals. Image credit: Fazal Sheikh, from "The Victor Weeps."

Mariko Takeuchi is a photography critic, independent curator and associate professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design. She has been a visiting researcher of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Takeuchi was also guest curator for the Spotlight on Japan of Paris Photo 2008, and received a Fulbright Grant for her research on photography education in the US. In 2016 she was curator of the Japan section at the Dubai Photo Exhibition. Takeuchi is based in Kyoto, Japan, and has a M.A. in Arts from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Image credit: Lieko Shiga, "Wedding Veil." This lecture is a part of the McKinney Lecture series.

Elijah Gowin uses photography to speak about landscape and the human experience in moments of spiritual and physical transition.

Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 Gowin received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. His photographs are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Center for Creative Photography, among others. Gowin founded Tin Roof Press to publish his books on art and photography including “Maggie” in 2009 and his monograph "Of Falling and Floating" in 2011. He is a Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he directs photographic studies. Gowin was awarded the John S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. Originally trained as an architect at the American University of Beirut and at Cornell University, she studied photography at the New England School of Photography and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Matar started teaching photography in 2009 and offered summer photography workshops to teenage girls in Lebanon's refugee camps with the assistance of non-governmental organizations.

Matar's work focuses on girls and women. She documents her life through the lives of those around her, focusing on the personal and the mundane in an attempt to portray the universal within the personal. Her work has won several awards, has been featured in numerous publications, and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. Her images are in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide. She teaches Personal Documentary Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Walker Pickering will be visiting us this Wednesday from Lincoln, Nebraska. His work was recently featured in the Pictura Gallery show, New Americana.

Walker's photographs range from marching bands to his ancestral homeland in the American Deep South. A native Texan, he lives in the Midwest where he teaches photography, video, and bookmaking at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and is included in a number of private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography. He is the recipient of the 2013 Clarence John Laughlin Award.

We hope to see you there.

Purcell's incredible body of work, which includes three collaborations with the late Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and award-winning books such as Egg & Nest and Owl's Head: On the Nature of Lost Things, was recently celebrated in Molly Bernstein's outstanding documentary An Art That Nature Makes. Purcell's installation Museum Wormianum, a recreation of the "wonder cabinet" of 17th century Danish naturalist Ole Worm, was seen at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum in Denmark. According to Jonathan Safran Foer, Purcell's originality "defies category." Her visit to IU will begin with a conversation with author Christoph Irmscher on Thursday, October 13 at noon in the library of Harlos House 1331 East 10th Street, right across from the Tenth Street entrance of the Herman B Wells Library.