“Soldier, at Ease” at the Houston Center for Photography
Soldier, At Ease, at the Houston Center for Photography, runs concurrently with the extensive WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. Both exhibitions include works by Tim Hetherington, Louie Palu and Erin Trieb. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY focuses on an exploration of the role of photography in documenting various aspects of conflict, including the periods between fighting. Soldier, [...]
XXI: Conflicts in a New Century: Images of a First Decade Fraught with Violence
The other day I heard a montage of sound bites on NPR of the recent uprisings in the Middle East. The momentary inundation of frantic sounds from Libya, Syria, Egypt and all those other conflicted places, and the journalists voices that steadily and resolutely fed the world the information coming out of them, suddenly made me keenly aware [...]
Conflicts in a New Century Friday
Dallas’ newest cultural space, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center is hosting XXI: Conflicts in a New Century, co-curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy. The opening’s Friday, April 15. In conjunction with the show, British filmmaker and war photogrpher Tim Hetherington will be on hand May 11 for a free screening of Restrepo, a [...]