(from the TCC website)
The Visual Arts Center of Tidewater Community College (VAC) will present Truth With a Camera: Shooting for Good, September 12 through November 4, 2010. The Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, September 18 at 7 p.m.; a Gallery Talk by Josh Meltzer, Photojournalist-in-Residence, Western Kentucky University, will precede the opening at 6 p.m. Events are free and open to the public.
In Truth With a Camera, 29 emerging photographers and three professional photojournalists, Stephen Katz, Norfolk, VA; Josh Meltzer, Bowling Green, KY; and Christopher Tyree, Portsmouth, VA, provide a documentary exhibition that depicts the living conditions and humanitarian work being done in Guadalajara, Mexico and Quito, Ecuador. Professional work will also include a selection of images from Africa and the Philippines.
Representing five countries and 11 U.S. states, all participants in the Guadalajara program (May, 2009) and Quito program (January, 2010) were part of the Truth With a Camera workshop, a highly respected photography program with deep roots in Hampton Roads and specifically Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center. Originally a regional effort, the workshop was reinvented in 2008 to provide direct learning experiences for young photo-graphers in developing countries. This cooperative venture allowed the student photographers to provide compassionate and gripping stories about the humanitarian efforts going on in these places; for the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), it provided images for promotion.
Imagery presented in Truth With a Camera will elicit a wide range of emotional responses from viewers. Educational information will complement the exhibition.
-- Tom