Loren Anderson Photo Exhibition
Date: Monday, January 31 @ 14:24:34 MST
Topic: Photography and Photographic Imagry
For this solo exhibition at the Phx. Public Library off of Central, Loren Anderson will exhibit photographs showing the progress of the lost boys of Sudan and where they now live. There will be a selection from the 2,000 photographs that she has photographed for the public to view free at the Phoenix Public Library starting February 2, 2005 - Feb. 27.
If your interested please check out the reception on Friday February 4, from 7-10 p.m. for the free ArtLink First Friday reception. For more info. please check out our calendar of events for February.
The Phx.Library website writes.
"This collection of photographs by Phoenix based photographer Anderson is the culmination of a two-year project documenting the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan, currently resettled in Phoenix. After working for a year with the Lost Boys Center in Phoenix, photographing these young refugees as they transitioned to their new lives in Arizona,  an anonymous donor made it possible for Anderson to travel to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. In Kenya Anderson continued this labor of love, chronicling life there."
"As a photographer I document people in their own element, reacting to my subjects rather than them reacting to me. I am there to freeze a part of their lives and try to convey to the viewer my subject’s lives, whether it be a lifestyle or a moment. I am there to tell a story on film." - Loren Anderson
If you like African ceramics and art check out their art gallery.
ZUVA GALLERY
The Contemporary Art of Africa
34505 N. Scottsdale Rd.
# 480-488-6000
for more info. http://www.zuvagallery.com/directions.htm
Who are the lost boys? You ask.
From the Az.Lost Boys website here is their story. "Since the mid-1980's, Sudan (in East Africa) has experienced brutal civil war fueled by religious, ethnic and regional strife. Fleeing the violence and bloodshed of Sudan's internal conflict, thousands of innocent children have experienced mind-numbing horrors and intense hardship. Orphaned as young as four years old, they fled into the jungle and began walking to Ethiopia. They stayed in refugee camps in Ethiopia until the government overthrew the Communists in 1991 and forced the young boys to leave at gunpoint. When they returned to Sudan, they were again met with hostility.
Thus began another long walk—this time to a United Nations refugee camp in Kenya. They lived in Kakuma since 1992. Although hungry, frightened, and weakened, their spirit of hope remained strong through their unyielding faith in God, and their intense desire to become educated. Intolerable living conditions in the camp gave the United States government reason to resettle some 4,000 of these, now, young men in America. In 2001, some 300 “Lost Boys” have “found” Arizona and have made it their new home. They are bright with hope, full of smiles, and ready to become contributing members of their new communities.
http://www.azlostboyscenter.org/
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