Annenberg Space for Photography (Venue Partner)
2000 Avenue of the Stars
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Art: Photography
Iris Nights: Sara Terry and Louie Palu, War is Only Half the Story: A Conversation with Sara Terry and Louie Palu
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Sara Terry, Courtesy of the artist and the Annenberg Space for Photography
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Thursday Oct 29, 2009 (6:30pm)
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Sara's long-term project about the aftermath of war in Bosnia -- "Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace" -- was published in September 2005 by Channel Photographics. Her work has been widely exhibited, at such venues as the United Nations, the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, and the Moving Walls exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and in many private collections. In 2005, she received a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her work in Bosnia. She is also the founder of The Aftermath Project (www.theaftermathproject.org), a non-profit grant program which helps photographers cover the aftermath of conflict. She is represented by Polaris Images. She resides in Los Angeles and is currently working on her next long-term project, "Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa."
Louie Palu has worked as a photojournalist for 20-years, focusing on the human condition and subjects frequently ignored by the popular media. Louie has been covering the war in Afghanistan from 2006-09 and has made several trips to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for a long-term project on the prison. His worked has been published worldwide including in The New York Times, TIME, NEWSWEEK, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and has appeared in numerous books, catalogues, festivals and exhibitions internationally, including being selected for the photojournalism festival Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France five times, George Eastman House, Ping Yao Festival in China, Fotografia International Festival of Rome, and the New York Photo Festival. His 15-year project on hard rock miners in Canada won the Critical Mass Book Award in 2005 and was also a recipient of a Hasselblad Master Award, NPPA Best of Photojournalism Award, several awards from the White House News Photographers Association and was selected as the 2008 Canadian Photojournalist of the Year by the News Photographers Association of Canada.
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