Jacob Baynham -
Brothers Near Roadside Bomb - Bharak, Afghanistan

Lee Lee
Fatehpur Sikri Burial Ground, India

Kirsten Baynham
Firelight, Burma
Proceeds will benefit the Lao Women Weavers organization

Artists:

Joseph Amram
Colfax

Jacob Baynham
Eyes of Afghanistan
go to Jacob's blog from Asia

Kirsten Baynham:
Faces of Asia
Laos, India, Burma & Afghanistan

Beth Daniel
Buenos Aires & Cairo

Lee Lee
Tibet, China, India & Bosnia

Izabela Lundberg
Survivors

Victoria Seligman
Portraits of Hmong Women & Children
Sa Pa, Vietnam

Exhibition:
March 1-31, 2008
420 Downing Street, Denver

Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 22nd 2008, 6-9pm

Viewing space open daily from 9-5
303.570.3152
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Colfax Avenue at Logan Street, Denver.
Dashboard pinhole photograph taken on 4/29/2007.
©2007 Joseph Amram - All rights reseved.

Colfax
Joseph Amram

COLFAX
Colfax is the street of nomads. Historically, it has been the street that brought the people that brought change to Denver. Now Colfax itself is shifting in nature because of vast urban planning projects. Although, it is not the first major change Colfax has gone through, it is one we can witness and experience in our lifetime. Colfax changes and the face of Denver changes.

TIN CAN
The two images on display are part of an ongoing series. They are 32 x 80 inches enlargements of 4 x 10 inches paper negatives. The process I use, pinhole photography, is the most primitive form of photography and it does not require a camera per se; rather, I use a tin can with a tiny hole centered in one side, and photosensitive paper wrapped against the inside wall of the can. The exposure times stretch from 2 minutes to 10 minutes, or even longer depending on the amount of light.

IMPROVISED IMAGES
When I looked at the first picture I took with this pinhole tin can, I was immediately struck by how the whole world seem to be "sucked" into it. My education in photography has been one of controlled visions, sophisticated instruments and processes. Pinhole photography is primitive, slow, has no viewfinder, no lens, no preconceived reference. In this process I feel that I allow more than I create.

Izabela Lundberg - Ethiopia

Survivors
Portraits of Torture & War Trauma Survivors who are seeking asylum in Denver

Izabela Lundberg

Proceeds from the sale of Izabela's work will benefit the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center

Rocky Mountain Survivors Center (RMSC) is a nonprofit organization that assists survivors of torture and war trauma, and their families, to heal and rebuild their lives. The center offers asylum legal representation, healthcare and psychosocial services, is actively pursuing building the capacity of other providers to respond to the needs of torture survivors, and is building a community development component to the work. RMSC is profoundly impressed by the dignity, courage and resilience of survivors of torture- ordinary people who suffer extraordinary trauma, yet choose to recover- and seeks to work with the communities and families in which survivors live, to find ways to bring the effects of torture out of the shadows and into the healing light of day.

Trust and hope were destroyed through the human rights abuses perpetrated by a few people. Rebuilding trust and hope takes an entire community.

Hmong Women & Children
Sa Pa, Vietnam

Victoria Seligman

"My life experiences have afforded me unique interactions with people rarely photographed so intimately. As a physician, I have become attuned to nonverbal emotive expression of one's self and consider myself a keep and privileged observer. These photos were taken on a rural trek in the tribal region of Sa Pa, Northern Vietnam. They are glimpses of Hmong women and children whose wisdom surpasses their age."

Proceeds from the sale of Victoria's work will benefit Health for Cambodia, an organization founded to better the education for physicians in Cambodia, and to support micro-credit projects for Cambodian Women with HIV

please visit www.HealthForCambodia.org starting April 2008 for more information

Confined Shrines
Myanmar

Lee Lee

These mixed media works on paper were done incorporating photographic xerox transfers of the cages that envelop the shrines in Myanmar. The caged Buddhist shrines, prevalent throughtout the country, are a poignant reflection of the oppressive regime.

Lee Lee is supporting Clear Path International, who works clearing landmines & unexploded ordinance along the Burma/Thai border as well as in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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