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A Photographer's Journey after 9/11 by Kate Brooks
Exhibition Season: September 9 - December 16, 2011Artist's Talk, Book Signing and Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6:00-8:00 pm
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"Being a photojournalist is not a profession, it's a way of life. You have to live it and breathe it and sometimes even risk dying for it." -Kate Brooks |
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition is a collection of photographs and personal essays that chronicle a young photographer's ten-year odyssey since September 11th. Now, on the eve of the tenth anniversary of those fateful events, Kate Brooks' perilous journeys through all of the major conflicts in the world in this past decade is recorded in a series of gripping essays and installations. The exhibition encompasses four major regions and conflicts and draws images into chapters about Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinians. Kate Brooks' images from the past ten years startle us with their immediacy and empathy. |
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"Kate Brooks's remarkable collection of images...shows us the side of the wars in our post-9/11 world that most of us have missed: the humanity amid the rubble, the pain of those who survive, the agony of the displaced, the trauma inflicted upon women. But what makes In the Light of Darkness even more compelling are the words between the pictures." - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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From the Series: Lebanon |
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Kate Brooks' career as a freelance photojournalist began while she was still a Russian studies student at the age of twenty in the former Soviet Union. The project; "Abandoned by the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages" documented the systematic child abuse in Russian state orphanages and was published worldwide in a campaign for orphans' rights by Human Rights Watch. Following September 11th, Brooks moved to Pakistan to photograph the impact of US foreign policy in the region and life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. In 2003, she covered the American invasion of Iraq and the beginning of the insurgency for TIME. Since then she has photographed the impact of political events and violent conflicts and the daily lives of the civilian populations in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon and throughout the greater Middle East. For more information, visit our website. |
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| From the Series: Afghanistan | From the Series: Iraq | From the Series: Palestinians |
