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Featured Exhibit /October 4, 2009 Your Country
The Missoula Food Bank by Anna M Weaver
Ralph and Mialeina Luciano put away food from the Missoula Food Bank. Photo by Anna M Weaver
Anna M Weaver's philosophy is:
A record. An aesthetic work. A call to action.
Whether she is photographing a Sudanese refugee in Maine, a recovering crack user and her reintegration into society after serving a prison sentence, or Ralph and Mialeina Luciano and their four children in Missoula, Montana, Anna has an eye for telling a story about social conditions, and a need to call us to action. Her exhibit on SocialDocumentary.net documents the Lucianos and their reliance on the services of a community food bank to help them through new hard times. When Weaver took these photos, Mialeina was pregnant with her fifth child and her family's primary residence had been their van for most of the summer. They were staying at a relative's home for the last few weeks of her pregnancy.
Like many social documentary photographers, Weaver highlights the strengths and dignity of the Lucianos as they work to keep their strong family ties together. She also documents the workers at the Food Bank, such as volunteer Maxine Rice, who repackages food donated by local restaurants.
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Call for Entries Update
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to be awarded to The People's Choice Award winners of Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession
Thanks to generous support from Adobe, SDN has created a new prize category, The People's Choice Award, based on total number of visits to an entry's exhibit. Click here for complete details on the Call for Entries and new winner category.
Call for Entries and Exhibition Sponsors
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New! SDN Now Has Archives of All Past Spotlights
You can now view and link to previous SDN Spotlights by visiting our Spotlight Archives. If you have been featured in an archive, or want to link to it from your website or FaceBook page, you can now find all past Spotlights and copy the URL to paste into your website or send in an email.
OSI Documentary Project
Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 17 Documentary Photography Exhibition
The Open Society Institute invites photographers to submit a body of
work for consideration in the Moving Walls 17 group exhibition. Moving Walls
is an exhibition series that features in-depth and nuanced explorations
of human rights and social issues. Thematically linked to OSI's
mission, Moving Walls is exhibited at OSI's offices in New York and
Washington, DC and includes seven discrete bodies of work.
Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
For more information, please see the Moving Walls guidelines.
New Definitive Biography of Dorothea Lange
DOROTHEA LANGE: A Life Beyond Limits
by Linda Gordon
W. W. Norton & Company. $35.00 cloth
 The first definitive biography of Dorothea Lange, this book is the sweeping account of the life and work of the woman widely regarded as the most influential American female photographer of the twentieth century. Lange's consummate images of the Great Depression have renewed meaning in our distressed times. While her photograph known as Migrant Mother is one of the world's most recognized images, few people know anything about the artist herself.
In DOROTHEA LANGE, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child living in the Lower East Side to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, and to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. From the Dust Bowl to Japanese interment camps to the civil rights movement, Lange's life and work touched on most of the important social issues of twentieth-century America.
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About SocialDocumentary.net
SocialDocumentary.net is a new website for photographers, NGOs, journalists, editors, and students to create and explore documentary websites investigating critical issues facing the world today. Recent exhibits have explored oil workers in the Niger River Delta, male sex workers in India, Central American immigrant women during their journey north, and Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Greece. Click here to view all of the exhibits. |
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