Crossroads Gallery @ Downtown South Bend

The Institute for Latino Studies presents:

“Nicaragua”
Grant Ramsey, featured artist
Monday, September 15 - Friday, November 14, 2008
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Crossroads Gallery, Downtown South Bend
Open Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

The Institute for Latino Studies is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition “Grant Ramsey: Nicaragua” on display in the Crossroads Gallery for the 2008 fall season. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 5:00–7:00 pm at the Notre Dame Downtown Crossroads Gallery.

Grant Ramsey is a self-trained photographer and assistant professor of philosophy at Notre Dame whose images of post-revolutionary Nicaragua pulse with an inner rhythm and vitality. He first traveled to Central America as a student and solidarity activist in the mid-1990s. He later accompanied his wife, an anthropologist, during her field research in Nicaragua. His photographs are rooted in the tradition of documentary street photography, and blur the boundaries between photojournalism and fine art photography.

The images in his exhibit are candid, reflecting fleeting public encounters on urban sidewalks, at the market, political rallies, or popular and religious festivals. Ramsey focuses his photographic eye on the forms of labor and leisure in Nicaragua: images ostensibly of play also expose violence, pain, loneliness, and sadness. And what on the surface are the most mundane forms of work—laying bricks, washing laundry by hand—are, at times, graceful, wistful or even comical. His work reveals the paradoxical beauty and rich humanity of daily life in one of the hemisphere’s most impoverished countries.

This exhibition will run from September 15 to November 14, 2008.

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