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Will you be my<br />
valentine?<br />
BELOW, Students with their love<br />
puppets<br />
VALENTINE’S DAY IN PRESCHOOL:<br />
A Fresh Look at Immigration<br />
In May and June, the Advanced Photography students of SHP presented<br />
an exhibition entitled Documented // Undocumented at SPUR Projects<br />
art gallery in Portola Valley.<br />
The exhibit included 80<br />
hand-printed black and white<br />
photographs from the U.S. /<br />
Mexico Border and Bay Area<br />
Immigrant Communities.<br />
Led by SHP Photography<br />
teacher Lars Howlett, the<br />
seven photography students<br />
(Rebecca Abbe, Molly<br />
Dickinson, Marie Hamilton,<br />
Shannon Hamilton, Pallavi Menon, Anna Paustenbach and Greg Randall) explored the<br />
THINKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD<br />
Above, this photo of an immigrant<br />
was taken by Marie Hamilton (SHP<br />
‘07) on Fifth Avenue in Redwood City<br />
COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE: Right, this<br />
photo of a border-patrol jeep was taken<br />
at the Tijuana border by Rebecca Abbe<br />
(SHP ‘07) THE EXHIBIT: Below, a crowd<br />
gathers for the opening reception and<br />
artists’ talk at SPUR Projects art gallery<br />
issues of immigration and cultural identity through the lenses of their cameras. Working<br />
on film and in black and white, the photographers documented community events, rallies,<br />
and daily life in the Mexican and Central American immigrant communities of the<br />
Bay Area including Fair Oaks and San Rafael.<br />
As part of the project, five of the students traveled to Tijuana to spend five days at<br />
the Casa del Migrante, a Catholic refuge that provides meals and beds each night for<br />
up to 150 migrants and deportees. Students shared dinner with the migrants, hearing<br />
first-hand accounts of the harsh realities of life on either side of the border. Along with<br />
making portraits of the men, the photographers also explored<br />
the communities along the wall, documenting the daily joys<br />
and hardships in neighborhoods under the shadow of the<br />
United States.<br />
Selected images from this series were also exhibited at<br />
the <strong>2007</strong> Forum on Day Laborers held by the Cesar Chavez<br />
Institute at San Francisco State University. Mr. Howlett<br />
continues to plan more exhibits, a website, and a book to be<br />
shared within the Bay Area Mexican-American community<br />
and throughout San Francisco and the Peninsula.<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 5<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 5
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