Understanding Poverty: Photo Exhibit opening Tonight
Posted under: Yep, Ike tried to knock this one out last week, but Ike can’t keep Ben Tecumseh DeSoto down. So Diverseworks declared, “On with the show!” And so it is.
Looking to get out of your no AC abode tonight? Stop by Diverseworks from 6-8pm for a seaon opening reception.
Understanding Poverty
Photography by Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Light Installation by Sarah Whatley Ayers
Sept. 19 – Nov. 1, 2008
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 19, 2008
6-8pm
DiverseWorks Main Gallery
Houston-based photojournalist Ben Tecumseh DeSoto opens the 2008-2009 season with Understanding Poverty, a multimedia exhibition that sheds light on poverty and homelessness in America by encompassing a 20-year investigation into life on the streets. DiverseWorks partners with the Houston Endowment to bring DeSoto’s incredibly moving work to the Main Gallery.
Check out the latest issue of the Free Press featuring Ben’s image of Barry on the cover. Plus, it includes a great piece on Understanding Poverty from Editor, Omar Afra.
7pm
Saddi Khali is a poet, performer and photographer from New Orleans. Khali’s work has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies, including Dark Eros, and has been used on several album and book covers, most notably, Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap by Nik Cohn.
He was featured on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO, Apollo Theater Salon Series and Uprooted: The Katrina Project. Khali leads an organization that creates and promotes healthy images of people of color in the media.
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