UT Documentary Center welcomes Donna DeCesare March 31, 2009

On Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00 PM
at CMB Studio 4D (UT campus)

Donna DeCesare will show a short illustrated autobiographical piece about her work in Latin American and will give examples from different bodies of work of her process of collaboration, earning trust and ethical issues that emerge when documenting children and communities that are stigmatized or at risk.

Donna is widely known for her groundbreaking coverage of the spread of Los Angeles gangs to Central America. Her photographs and testimonies from children in Guatemala and Colombia who are former child soldiers, survivors of sexual abuse, or who live with the stigma of HIV helped UNICEF to develop protocols for photographing children at risk.

News and arts publications have featured her award-winning photographs including: The New York Times Magazine, Life, Mother Jones, DoubleTake and Aperture. She is recipient of an Emmy award, the Dorothea Lange Prize, The Alicia Patterson Fellowship, the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award, the Soros Independent Project fellowship and most recently a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia.

For more information on Donna DeCesare’s work View her Web site

http://utdoccenter.org/faculty/decesare/

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