Donna DeCesare and Eli Reed’s Work on Display at the HRC
The Harry Ransom Center will present “Adentro Hacia Fuera de El Salvador Inside Out,” a photographic exhibition of images taken by School of Journalism associate professor of photography Donna DeCesare. Exhibition dates: April 17 - August 3, 2008.
A continuation of the Harry Ransom Center’s “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition, “Adentro Hacia Fuera de El Salvador Inside Out,” features a selection of over 30 images by Donna, an award-winning documentary photographer, and numerous press clippings showing journalistic publication of her images. The exhibit starts by covering the end of El Salvador’s civil war, notably the murder of six Jesuit priests and the guerilla offensive in San Salvador in 1989 — events that increased international pressure for the peace accords. Donna’s images then form two narratives that trace the tragedy of youth violence from its origins in Los Angeles, where the Salvadoran diaspora community forms the second largest Salvadoran “city” in the world, and back to El Salvador. The first story follows Jessica Diaz (pictured above with her mom and son) as she attempts to break the vicious circle of violence trapping her family. The second story follows Edgar Bolaños, whose mother sends him back to El Salvador, naively believing he will be safe from the world of gangs that killed his brother in Los Angeles.
Professor Eli Reed is one of the photographers in the historical show “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera.” Eli has one image in the show and a large special report done by the San Francisco Examiner where he was working at the time.
The exhibit’s opening will take place in coordination with the conference “Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace: 15 Years after the El Salvador Peace Accords.” The conference, which brings together a multidisciplinary group of academics, activists, artists and policy-makers to explore the relationship between the local and the global, as well as the economic and the political, takes place April 17th and 18th on UT’s campus. Click on image to right for more information.
Visit Donna’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
Visit Eli’s Doc Ctr faculty page.
More about the conference “Image, Memory, and the Paradox of Peace.”
More about the Harry Ransom Center and the “Inside El Salvador Por Fuera” exhibition.
