July | August 2006 - Boston Photography Focus

Left : Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, An Indian from
India - Feather/Dot, 2004, Archival inkjet print, 12
x 16 inches, Courtesy of Sepia International, New
York, NY, Original photo courtesy The Library of
Congress, Washington, DC
trips with youth from Vermont, the South
Bronx, the Navajo Reservation to share
photography and life stories with Oglala
Lakota youth living on Pine Ridge Reservation
in South Dakota. This program, a
collaboration with The Hall Farm Center
for Arts and Education, has grown out of
the In-Sight Photography Project, another
program he co-founded which is currently
celebrating its fifteenth anniversary teaching
youth photography regardless of their
ability to pay. Willis is currently working
on sabbatical projects throughout the year
while on leave from his tenured job as
Professor of Photography at Marlboro
College (Marlboro, VT). His website is
www.jwillis.net.
2001
2001 prc members’ exhibition
june 22-july 29
her work are also in the book Digital Art
by Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media
Arts at the Whitney Museum. Matthew
is currently finishing a project titled The
Virtual Immigrant that explores the magnified
cultural dislocation and the conflicted
experiences of 1-800 call center workers
in India caused by technology’s effect on
collapsing borders and shrinking distances.
Her website is www.annumatthew.com.
2002
2002 prc members’ exhibition
june 14-july 28
Juror : Diana Gaston, former Associate
Director of SFCamerawork and Curator
at Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego,
now Associate Curator of Fidelity Investments,
Boston, MA
jonathan moller
Left : Jonathan Moller, Ex-members of the Civil
Defense Patrols (known as PAC by their Spanish
acronym) listen to a prayer by the minister of an
evangelical church at the beginning of their meeting
on the outskirts of the town of Nebaj. For over ten
years these former patrollers were obligated to spy on
their neighbors and fight alongside of or in front of the
Army. Though found to be responsible for numerous
massacres and disbanded at the time of the signing of
the Peace Accords in 1996, in 2002 tens of thousands
of former civil patrollers throughout Guatemala began
reorganizing to demand compensation from the government
for what they claim was unpaid service provided
to the state during the war. Quiché, Guatemala,
2002, Toned gelatin silver print, 14 x 14 inches,
edition of 30, Courtesy and copyright the artist
Juror : Deborah Kao, Curator of Photography,
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
annu palakunnathu matthew
Since the PRC’s juried show in 2001,
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has been
exhibiting nationally and internationally,
including the Victoria & Albert Museum
(London, England), Light Work (Syracuse,
NY), RISD Museum (Providence,
RI), DeCordova Museum of Art (Lincoln,
MA), Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
Photo Biennale (Montreal, Canada),
and Moscow’s Museum of Modern Art
(Moscow, Russia). Among the list of
grants recently supporting Matthew’s
work include the John Gutmann Fellowship,
Rhode Island Arts Fellowship and
the American Institute of Indian Studies
Creative Arts fellowship. She was recently
an artist in residence at Yaddo and Mac-
Dowell Colonies. Her work can be found
in the collections of the George Eastman
House (Rochester, NY), Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston (Houston, TX), Center
for Creative Photography (Phoenix, AZ),
and the RISD Museum, among others.
Matthew’s work is included in Phaidon’s
book BLINK, which according to the
publisher celebrates the quality and vision
of today’s 100 most exciting international
contemporary photographers. Images of
Jonathan Moller has continued to focus
on his human rights related Guatemala
work culminating in the publication of
the book, Our Culture is Our Resistance:
Repression, Refuge and Healing in Guatemala
by powerhouse Books (Fall 2004).
Turner Libros (Madrid, Spain and Mexico
City, Mexico) also published the book in
a Spanish language edition. Moller has
received several awards in the past few
years, including the 2005 Center for Photographic
Art Award and the 2003 Golden
Light Award from the Maine Photographic
Workshops. His recent and upcoming
exhibition schedule includes venues such
as the University of the Arts (Philadelphia,
PA), the Mills College Art Museum (Oakland,
CA), the Phillips Museum of Art at
Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster,
PA), the Photographic Center Northwest
(Seattle, WA), Centro de la Imagen (Mexico
City, Mexico), the European Parliament
(Brussels, Belgium), and the World
Cultural Forum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil),
among others. Moller’s work continues
to be collected by museums and other
public institutions. His website is
www.jonathanmoller.org.
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