In producing this work Christopher Churchill traveled throughout the country without any specific route. He shot black and white film with an 8"x10" field camera. His reliance on unrelated events was his guide to different destinations and encounters, placing faith in this process. Mr. Churchill says, “during these trips, randomly driving around the country, events occurred all the time that made me feel a part of something larger. As I began to release control and trust in these seemingly random occurrences amazing things would happen. I began to accept these sequences of events as a manifestation of my own faith and deeper understanding of my place in the world.” The photographs, stories, and audio recordings were made throughout the United States from 2004-2009 and show the diversity of our nation and the ways in which we manifest a human need, and faith as a way that we understand our place in the world. Click on images for lager size; for prices for print sales contact SABINE MEYER at SABINEANNEMEYERatGMAIL.COM

A group exhibit featuring the photographers of Redux Pictures. featuring photographs by Marc Asnin, Ben Baker, Nina Berman, David Butow, Peter Frank Edwards, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Eros Hoagland, John Keatley, Andy Kropa, Erika Larsen, Gina LeVay, Joshua Lutz, Preston Mack, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Darcy Padilla, Mark Peterson, Michael Rubenstein, Greg Ruffing, Q. Sakamaki, Erin Siegal, Angie Smith, Ben Stechschulte, Brad Swonetz, Nathaniel Welch, & David Yellen

On view at Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon May 9th through August 2nd 2009. The mountain gorillas of the Virunga National Park live surrounded by violence. Heavily armed soldiers of guerilla warfare, poachers, illegal charcoal makers, all roam the forest poised to destroy what gets in their way. Still a village and the world were outraged when a family of the gentle primates was murdered in cold blood in July 2007. Just over 200 of the extremely rare mountain gorillas, of which there are only 680 in the world, live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, virtually the epicenter of humanitarian crisis and civil wars that have left almost 6 million people dead in the last 15 years.

On view February 14th through May 3rd 2009 at Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon. Anthony Suau's Pulitzer Prize-winning work includes coverage of the famine in Ethiopia, the war in Chechnya, and a decade spent in the former Soviet bloc for Time Magazine. His observations while covering the world's conflicts during the the last 25 years informs his view on how events escalate into war, and how both media and politicians influence the creation of history. CLICK ON THE IMAGES FOR A LARGER VIEW

On view October 25th through January 25th 2009 at Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon. In photographing America's prisons, Andrew Lichtenstein set out to put a human face to wasted lives. What he captured were the realities of a failing system rife with violence, where the powerful rule over the weak. In the Fovea's presentation "Behind Bars," Lichtenstein raises questions about the real cost of America's correctional system. As a documentary photographer, Lichtenstein has spent the last decade photographing stories of social concern. He has been published in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek and more. While photographing America's correctional facilities his intentions were challenged and his film seized, but he simply continued to seek the realities of prison life.

With photographs by Julien Chatelin • Alan Chin • Justin Guariglia On view August 9th through October 18th 2008 at Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon. The longtang of Shanghai are quickly disappearing, thanks in part to land development and the desire to flatten blocks of centuries-old neighborhood housing to build modern office and residential towers—monuments to the “progress” and “forward thinking” of the new republic.

On view June 14th through August 3rd 2008 at Fovea Exhibitions. Stories from photojournalists Lynsey Addario, Kael Alford, Samantha Appleton, Nina Berman, Paula Bronstein, Rina Castelnuovo, Denise DeVore, Jessica Dimmock, Ronnie Farley, Evelyn Hockstein, Mona Reeder, Lana Slezic, & Anastasia Taylor-Lind

June 7 & 8, 2008 • "Dia:BEACON HIGH” is a collaboration with Dia:BEACON and the Beacon High School photography class. Students were given the theme of “movement” and explore painting in light both in still photographs and video on site at the DIA:BEACON. Visiting Artist Kathleen Sweeney contributed on this project with Beacon High School photography instructor Mark Lyon

Palani Mohan's “Vanishing Giants - Elephants of Asia”. On view March 8th through June 1st 2008 at Fovea Exhibitions. The photographs document these great animals and the people who care for them. The images in this exhibition have been taken over six years, in 11 Asian nations – from the streets of Bangkok to the logging camps of the Andaman Islands. The book stands as a record of an amazing species which is ever more imperiled by the loss of habitat and by human neglect.

by Paolo Pellegrin • While on assignment in southern Lebanon in 2006 for The New York Times, Pellegrin captured the grief of the Lebanese population in the face of the Israeli air strikes. His images reveal the despair of families and friends witnessing the deaths of their loved ones while around them their homes are destroyed. While covering this story, Pellegrin was injured by shrapnel and suffered a concussion during a missile attack. In 2007 he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for this work, which recognizes international reporting “requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” These photographs also earned him a first place prize from the World Press Photo competition, based in Amsterdam

by Ziyah Gafic • Ziyah Gafic was a young boy growing up in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War started, and as a teenager turned to photography as a means to explore his identity as a European Muslim in a world of conflict.

by Ron Haviv • Since 2003 the continuing conflict in Darfur has torn apart the lives of over 2.5 million people. Haviv gives viewers a haunting look at life among the civilian children of this desert region, who have endured years of hardship and brutal civil conflict. Young girls and women risk their safety daily while performing acts of survival such as gathering water and firewood. The photograph of the teenager in the red scarf who is shown with two of her friends was terrified every day, reports Haviv. Yet she felt it was her responsibility to leave the camps in search of food for her family, despite having been attacked and raped in previous excursions.

by Todd Heisler, Chris Hondros & Suzanne Opton

Lori Grinker and Fovea's premiere exhibition, May-June 2007 Lori Grinker began her photographic career in 1981 while a student at Parsons School of Design when her photo-essay about a young boxer was published as a cover story by Inside Sports. During that time she met another young boxer, thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson, whose life she documented for the following decade. Since then in addition to her reportage of events such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, she has delved into long-term book projects including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 7 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, March 2005), her fifteen-year project on veterans of the last century.