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Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection at the Southeast Museum of Photography
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 - FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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Myriam Abdelaziz
Portrait of a Genocide
The war in Rwanda is one of the worst genocides in recent world history. These pictures and the accounts are of survivors photographed by Abdelaziz.
image to the left:
Portrait of a Genocide #1
Inkjet Print
SMP# 2009.6.1
Gift of the artist |
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Jane Fulton Alt
Treatment Room
In the series "Treatment Room", the Psychiatrist’s office, as a site for many dramas, functions as an empty stage waiting for its players.
Look and Leave:
Photographs and stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth
Look and Leave was the result of two weeks Alt spent as a social worker providing care to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
image to the left:
Mardi Gras Warehouse
from the series "Look and Leave"
Pigment print
SMP# 2009.9.2
Gift of the artist |
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Susan S. Bank
Cuba: Campo Adentro
This deeply poetic body of work depicts the lives of a group of tobacco farmers in central Cuba who grow their own food, have no electricity or telephone, and live a life firmly anchored in family, their animals, and their remote valley.
image to the left:
Julio Sifting Rice, 2002-2007
Silver gelatin print
SMP# 2009.17.2
Gift of the artist |
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Susan Berger
Private Memories in Public Places
The roadside memorials that dot our highways and city streets are a recent addition to the landscape. Although the practice of building these memorials was introduced by the Spaniards when they first settled New Mexico, it has evolved into a folk art that is not limited to a particular ethnicity or region.
image to the left:
US 60-84, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 2009
From the series: "The Side of the Road"
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
SMP# 2009.26.5
Museum purchase
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Lorna Bieber
Bieber’s closely cropped and unique silver gelatin prints emphasize a remote and contemplative interior world and leave the viewer with the sensation that reality is a temporary and fragile apparition.
image to the left:
White Tree/Mountain, 2005
Silver gelatin print
SMP# 2009.3.1
Gift of the artist |
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Ernie Button
Back and Forth
Changes in society aren't always obvious. Sometimes they can be very subtle. The grocery store rides that many of us enjoyed as children are slowly disappearing from the urban landscape.
image to the left:
Alien, 2002-2007
Lightjet print
SMP# 2009.10.1
Gift of the artist |
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John Fago
Cuba
John Fago is a traveler and photographer with a particular interest in culture.
image to the left:
Untitled, Havana, Cuba, 1992
Silver Gelatin Print
SMP# 2009.19.2
Gift of the artist |
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José Miguel Ferreira is a Portugese photographer whose work emphasizes use of the platinum printing process. Ferreira's
works are in private collections and institutions on five continents. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland. Images donated are represented in the following bodies of work: The Port Wine Route,The Tua Line, Naturalia, Norte, Study to a Journey, Romania: Transition, Geneva in Solitary, King's Cemetery,
image to the left:
Six Pierres, Cimitiere des Rois, Geneve, 2004
From the series: King's Cemetery
Platinum print
SMP# 2009.27.1
Gift of the artist
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Virgilio Ferreira
Daily Pilgrims
City dwellers are portrayed as blurry, anonymous ephemeral phantoms photographed against backdrops of sparkling cityscapes of towering steel and glass and multicolored glowing lights.
image to the left:
Untitled, #2006-7-151
Digital Print
SMP# 2009.25.1
Gift of the artist |
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Kelly Flynn
The Housing Project - Miami
This project captures for the viewer a segment of a lifestyle that is frozen and framed to create stories about the way we live.
image to the left:
House #53
Inkjet print
SMP# 2008.10.6
Gift of the artist |
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Richard Gilles
Almost Home-Less
There is a phenomenon in our society that for the most part goes unnoticed: down a side-road, to a dead-end in a decaying industrial section of the city is but one of the places you will discover, often hidden, the almost home-less.
image to the left:
23rd St. & Tennessee St., 2006
Pigment Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.16.2
Gift of the artist |
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Judy Haberl
Clutch Secrets
In Clutch Secrets the sculptures are translucent cast rubber purses that contain inexplicable objects.
Iced Fictions
In Iced Fictions Haberl creates elaborate frozen sculptures, intended principally as content for a subsequent series of still-life photographs.
image to the left:
Implication #16, 2008
From the series:" Iced Fictions"
Pigment Print
SMP# 2009.22.2
Gift of the artist |
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Lauren Henkin
Displaced: Part II
“I think a big part of what I hope to do is pay homage to things we see everyday — toys we leave on the floor, dresses hanging in a closet, or trees growing besides dumpsters. The fun for me in taking pictures is when I am able to look closer, recognize the beauty that is present everywhere and then share that vision with others.” - Lauren Henkin
image to the left:
Untitled #10
Pigment Print
SMP# 2009.11.2
Gift of the artist |
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Dina Kantor
Finnish and Jewish
Today’s society is increasingly complex and multi-cultural. As our heritages blend, our identities are no longer definable by a generic social stereotype of community, but by our unique experiences and backgrounds. With these pictures, Kantor investigates the ways photography contributes to the construction of identity and community.
image to the left:
Isabella Holm, Helsinki, 2006
Pigment print
SMP# 2009.23.1
Gift of the artist |
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Jessica M. Kaufman
Panopticon
“When I came up with this project-- making images of the landscapes on the grounds of Nazi concentration camps-- I thought of the natural world bearing witness to the atrocities committed, and the ugliness that we wish we would find in those landscapes, as though they could herald the horror of what happened there.” Jessica M. Kaufman
image to the left:
Untitled, 2006, from the series: "Panopticon"
Silver gelatin print
SMP# 2009.15.2
Gift of the artist |
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Malcolm Lightner
Mile O’ Mud
Malcolm Lightner’s pictures portray a specific vernacular Floridian culture with a level of respect and an acute sense of purpose rarely seen in photography
image to the left:
National Anthem, 2006
Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.29.3
Gift of the artist |
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Rania Matar
Ordinary Lives
Rania Matar’s work focuses on the Middle East, mainly women and children, and her recent projects—which examine the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the recent spread veil and its meanings, and the aftermath of war—intend to give a voice to people who have been forgotten or misunderstood.
image to the left:
Juggling, Aita El Chaab, Lebanon, 2006
Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.12.3
Gift of the artist |
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Daniel Michiut
La Vida de Oscar
A journey into the life of Oscar, an unemployed man who withdraws into seclusion, living with stray dogs in an abandoned car.
image to the left:
Untitled, 1998-2010
Silver gelatin print
SMP# 2009.18.3
Gift of the artist |
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Katharina Mouratidi
Sarayacu-a Village in Resistance to Oil Drilling
The community of Sarayacu is located on the banks of river Bobonaza in the Amazon rain-forest of southwest Ecuador, one of the few remaining unviolated regions of the Amazon Basin. Mouratidi’s interest is in individuals, groups and movements engaged- globally or locally-for positive social change and a more just and sustainable future.
image to the left:
Children Playing in a River Next to the Community, Sarayacu, Equador, 2007
Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.32.3
Gift of the artist |
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Pam Moxley
Photography graces me with the momentary freedom to leave the responsibilities of life behind, and view the majesty of life as though I am, again, six years old.
image to the left:
The Chase, 2008
Mixed Media
SMP# 2008.2
Gift of Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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Liz Murphy Thomas
Uniformity
The Uniformity series deals with the psychological impact uniforms have on both projected and perceived identity.
image to the left:
Jessika Ross/Sergeant
Digital print
SMP# 2009.14.5
Gift of the artist |
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Colleen Mullins
Elysium
After Katrina, the urban forest of New Orleans lay decimated. But it is not that damage on which her photographs gaze, but on the damage at the hands of man.
image to the left:
Untitled 08, 2008
From the series: "Elysium"
Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.24.5
Gift of the artist |
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Kate Orne
Brothels and Fundamentalism:
Uncovering the victims of Pakistan's little known sex trade
Since 2001, Kate Orne has documented the complex cultural and social issues related to women and children in Pakistan. The resulting project, Brothels and Fundamentalism, is an extensive, intimate and powerful exploration of human dignity and perseverance in the face of formidable adversity.
image to the left:
16 year old sex worker with nephews. Her sister is her madame. The bed they share as a familly is also where customers are serviced.
Pigment print
SMP# 2009.8.2
Gift of the artist |
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Ara Oshagan
Traces of Identity/Juvies
The themes that run through most of Oshagan’s work are the exploration of a layered and complex cultural identity and the construction of place and community. Traces of Identity captures the synthesis of the ethnic Armenian culture and its interaction with the mainstream culture.
image to the left:
St. Zoravar Armenian Church, Yerevan, Armenia, 1999
From the series: "Traces of Identity"
Digital print
SMP# 2009.30.4
Gift of the artist
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Jane Paradise
Private Moments. Public Spaces
For the past few years Jane has been photographing people in public places throughout the world; often catching them in unguarded private moments.
image to the left:
At Home in Soweto, South Africa, 2005
Digital print
SMP# 2009.7.1
Gift of the artist |
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Colleen Plumb
Animals are Outside Today
“I began this project looking at fake nature, wondering what substitutions for nature can satisfy in people. Looking deeper I began photographing real animals and how they can be a link to a world far from the reality and pace of contemporary life, as well as providing an intangible link to a deeper world of instinct and rawness.” - Colleen Plumb
image to the left:
Audubon Swan
Pigment print
SMP# 2009.28.1
Gift of the artist |
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Rachel Raab
SCAD Portraits
Rachel Raab completed a BFA at Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in photography and a minor in Graphic Design. During this time, she completed a series of portraits of students at SCAD.
image to the left:
Joey
Digital print
SMP# 2009.5.3
Gift of the artist |
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Cynthia Roelle
Baghdad
Cynthia Roelle served in the United States Army and was deployed for one year in Baghdad. These images are a small selection of the pictures she produced about that time and about that place.
image to the left:
Former Seat of Power, Ba'ath Party Headquarters, Baghdad, Iraq, 2006
Inkjet print
SMP# 2009.31.3
Gift of the artist |
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Stephen Strom
Earth Forms
Stephen Strom brings to the landscape the sensibilities of an astronomer who has lived in the desert for almost two decades. He captures a land shaped both by the millennial forces of prehistory and also by yesterday's cloudburst.
image to the left:
Hillside,Winter, Priest Valley, CA, 2007
Pigment print
SMP# 2009.8.3
Gift of the artist |
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John Willis and Tom Young
Recycled Realities
Photographers John Willis and Tom Young spent nearly four years documenting one site, as they captured the subtle yet powerful narratives hidden within the paper waste bales at a mill in western Massachusetts.
image to the left:
top:
John Willis
#27, 1999
Silver gelatin print
2009.20.1
Gift of Richard S. Press
bottom:
Tom Young
Dark Openings
Ink jet print
2009.21.3
Gift of Richard S. Press
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