MISSISSIPPI IMAGES
Recent photographs by Michael A. Lang
An Exhibit for Katrina Hurricane Relief
In THE Annex at Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 202-347-2787
December 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 2005, 6-8:30 PM
3rd Thursday Gallery Walk: December 15, 6-8 PM
Proceeds benefit:
The Mississippi Center for Justice www.mscenterforjustice.org and
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law www.lawyerscommittee.org
Michael Lang presents a series of ?street images? recorded during several trips to Mississippi while helping to document the work of the Mississippi Center for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, along with the Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, that provides legal advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged and low-income people and communities. This exhibit features three aspects of Mississippi life: 1) post hurricane images of East Biloxi and Ocean Springs, 2) images related to the long term projects that the MCJ has been involved with ? elderly and disabled people denied Medicaid benefits, juveniles caught up in the path from school house to jail house, local and immigrant poultry workers, etc. - and now the post- hurricane legal problems that people face such as evictions, insurance claims and mortgage liability, 3) a portrait of the Farish Street core of historic Black Jackson - Peaches Café and decayed housing, some with people living there, hoping for the promised restoration.
Added by Authentic Art Visions on November 19, 2005