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OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday, September 11, 2011, 3 - 6 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
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The Silver Eye Center for Photography announces HomeFrontLine: Reflections on Ten Years of War Since 9/11, running September 13 through December 10, 2011. Please join us, along with featured photographer Baptiste Giroudon, for the opening reception on
Sunday, September 11, from 3 - 6 p.m.
This exhibition explores the far-reaching impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- both on and away from the combat zones -- through the words and images of eleven leading documentary photographers and photojournalists. The co-curators of the exhibition are Ellen Fleurov, Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photography and Leo Hsu, Independent Curator, Pittsburgh, PA.
The exhibition features images and multimedia projects by eleven international documentary photographers and photojournalists -- Claire Beckett, Nina Berman, Kevin Bubriski, Gabriela Bulisova, Ashley Gilbertson, Baptiste Giroudon, Michael Kamber, Benjamin Lowy, Alfonso Moral, Eugene Richards and Peter van Agtmael.
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Image Credits:
Baptiste Giroudon, Afghan woman, searching bags at the entrance of a school used as a polling station for women, Kabul, Afghanistan, August, 2009. From the series Portraits of Democracy. Courtesy of the artist.
Nina Berman, Al Qaeda Sign, "The Box," Joint Readiness Training Center, Ft. Polk, Louisiana, 2008. From the series Homeland. Courtesy of the artist and Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY.
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Silver Eye Center for Photography is generously supported by our members and individual donors and by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, A.W. Mellon Education and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Fine Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, The Hillman Foundation, The Laurel Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Epson America. Broadcast sponsorship is provided by WYEP/91.3 FM.
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silvereye center for photography
1015 e carson street / pittsburgh, pa 15203
412.431.1810 / www.silvererye.org / info@silvereye.org
gallery hours: tuesday - saturday / noon - 6 p.m.
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Silver Eye Center for Photography | 1015 East Carson Street | Pittsburgh | PA | 15203
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