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URL:https://www.clevelandphoto.org/events/steve-cagan/
SUMMARY:ACTIVIST PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELLING THE STORY -Zoom presentation Clubh
 ouse will be open
DESCRIPTION:\n\n&nbsp\;\nACTIVIST PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELLING THE STORY\n\n\n\n
 Over more than 40 years\, I have had the great privilege to work as a phot
 ographer in close collaboration with varied communities and organizations 
 in Latin America\, especially in El Salvador\, Honduras\, Nicaragua\, Cuba
  and Colombia. In this work\, I’ve had to learn about and deal with some
  ethical and social issues that arose for me as a photographer from the Un
 ited States who crossed cultural boundaries to do this work.\n\nMy talk wi
 ll be a presentation of some of the projects I’ve worked in\, in order t
 o explore some of those issues. We’ll talk about how photography’s his
 torical and very strong claim to be telling the truth (though that’s pro
 bably changing these days) is one of the things that makes these issues im
 portant.\n\nWe’ll look a lot of pictures\, a few historical\, but almost
  all of them from various projects of mine.\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Cagan has bee
 n practicing activist photography since the mid-1970s. He’s most concern
 ed with exploring strength and dignity in everyday struggles of grassroots
  people resisting their pressures and problems.\n\nMajor projects include:
   factory closings in Ohio\; Indochina\; Nicaragua\; El Salvador\; and Cu
 ba\; and “Working Ohio\,” an extended portrait of working people. Cu
 rrent major project\, since 2003: “El Chocó\, Colombia: Struggle for C
 ultural and Environmental Survival\,” on the threatened rain forest and
  human cultures there.\n\nHe’s exhibited and published on four continent
 s. Awards include two Fulbright Fellowships\, and followships from Nationa
 l Endowment for the Arts\, Ohio Arts Council Fellowships\, and New Jersey 
 Arts Council. Taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Rutgers Universit
 y\, 1985-1993.\n\nCo-author of This Promised Land\, El Salvador\, (1991 B
 ook of the Year Award of Association for Humanist Sociology). In 1991\, n
 amed “Teacher of the Year” at Rutgers University. The third major eve
 nt that spring was being denied tenure at Rutgers.\n\nCo-author of El Pre
 cio del Oro/The Price of Gold (Colombia\, 2021) Also available as e-books
  in English or Spanish.\n\n\n\nwww.stevecagan.com\n http://socialdocument
 ary.net/photographer/stevecagan\nhttps://stevecagan.smugmug.com\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n
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