The Last Gorillas of the Congo By Brent Stirton. Artist's talk + reception Sat May 9, 4-8pm Open Fridays through Sundays 12-6pm On view May 9th through August 2nd 2009. Fovea Exhibitions 143 Main Street Beacon New York 12508 845 765 2199 www.FoveaExhibitions.org Join acclaimed photojournalist Brent Stirton at Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon from 4-8pm Saturday May 9th for an artist talk and the opening of his multi-year reportage ‘The Last Gorillas of the Congo‘. 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. Last autumn a peace treaty was signed, and rangers discovered 5 babies gorillas have been born. 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. The local illegal charcoal industry clashes with conservation efforts in this very poor area and park rangers have been killed in their efforts to protect the Mountain Gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species. Jamie Wellford, International Photo Editor at Newsweek magazine, who is both the assigning editor of this story and an original founder of Fovea, curates this exhibition. The non-profit charity Fovea Exhibitions will host Stirton's internationally award-winning photo essay through August, documenting the story of the tragedy and the renewal of some of the last mountain gorillas on the planet. The reception will celebrate both Fovea’s second year anniversary and the 2009 Year of the Gorilla, with a free list of ‘Things You Can Do to Help Endangered Species’. To schedule interviews with Brent Stirton or Jamie Wellford call 845 765 2199. FOVEA mounts exhibitions by the world’s most talented photojournalists and hosts events where the public, students and community can engage them in discussions about the current events they cover. Educators or groups that are interested in arranging a tour of the exhibition should contact Stephanie Heimann at 845 765 2199 or via email at Stephanie@foveaeditions.org. FOVEA is a not-for-profit educational charity founded to educate through photojournalism, founded by three Newsweek photo editors, and began operations in May 2007.

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CLICK HERE FOR 8 HI RES IMAGES released for exhibit promotion only; all photo credits MUST be credited COURTESY FOVEA otherwise the press photographers retain rights and may bill you for usage! PRESS RELEASE COPY: Fovea Exhibitions is pleased to present "American Youth" by the photographers of Redux Pictures Opening Saturday August 8th from 4-8pm On display August 8th - November 9th 2009 143 Main Street Beacon NY 12508 845 765 2199 info@foveaexhibitions.org Fovea opens “American Youth”, an group photography exhibition that examines the newest generation of 18 to 24-year-olds, looking at young couples and missionaries, debutante balls and drunken tailgate stupors, Iraq war widows and wannabe models, street kids and lobstermen. How are they different, and how are they the same as the generations that came before them? Poignant in their ability to reveal the strength of rebellion alongside the inevitable vulnerability of adolescent existence, the photographs stand in both contrast and correspondence to each other. The lives of teens are shown with an edgy empathy. Moments from our youth's love, life, work and play are all addressed through the documentary images of 24 photographers. “American Youth” presents stories by an acclaimed group of photographers belonging to the agency Redux Pictures of New York City, and will open Saturday August 8th at Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main St. Beacon, New York. The exhibition features photographs by national and regional photographers 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, Kevin J. Miyazaki, Darcy Padilla, Mark Peterson, Michael Rubenstein, Greg Ruffing, Q. Sakamaki, Erin Siegal, Angie Smith, Ben Stechschulte, Brad Swonetz, Nathaniel Welch, and David Yellen. An accompanying book of the same name published by Contrasto will be available in conjunction with the exhibition. Fovea is happy to announce that Chateau Routas of France is our exclusive wine sponsor for the 2009-2010 season beginning with the August 8th event. FOVEA is 501(c)3 educational charity based in Beacon, NY, dedicated to bringing attention to domestic and international stories through the works of photojournalism. It opened in May 2007, is 100% volunteer run and founded by magazine photo editors based both in NYC and Beacon, NY.

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IMAGE CREDIT MUST READ: EMILY SCHIFFER /Courtesy of FOVEA. PHOTOGRAPHS MAY ONLY BE USED FOR PROMOTION OF THIS EXHIBIT. July 23 through September 4th Opening reception Saturday July 16thth, 5-9pm Schiffer’s subjects are her students-- young residents from six to 20 years old—of the Cheyenne River Reservation in rural South Dakota. This exhibit is comprised of medium format black & white photographs of the children, accompanied by a narrative text that explores Schiffer’s perspective on her evolving relationship with them, as well as photographs and text from her students.

CLICK ON TITLE ABOVE FOR ACCESS TO HI RES IMAGES PRESS RELEASE COPY: Saturday Nov 14th 4-8pm OPENING EXHIBITION AND ARTIST TALK Presenting ‘FAITH’ by Christopher Churchill At 6pm Christopher Churchill will be presenting an exclusive artist’s talk, along with Guest Curator Michael Itkoff of Daylight Magazine to the public. ON VIEW NOV 14th THROUGH JAN 10th Fri-Sunday noon-6pm Fovea Exhibitions 143 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508 Photograph left: “Elvis” by Christopher Churchill/Courtesy of Fovea Exhibitions Photographer Christopher Churchill shares his exploration into the different perspectives of faith in America photographed in beautiful 8” x10” black and white format. Every flavor and manifestation of faith is examined in this 5-year project, from mainstream religions, cult beliefs and culture, to aliens, Elvis, and nature. In producing this work Boston-based photographer 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. I began this project because of a genuine curiosity about religious faith from a personal and societal perspective. I have always had a deep faith in the interconnectivity of the world, a faith instilled in me from an early age and one validated, at least for me, many times over the course of my life. Sometimes this faith was validated in tragedy, as it was with the death of my father and in the tearful memories of a Hutterite great-grandmother remembering the premature death of her son; sometimes in joy, as it was with the birth of my daughter and in a dying Mississippi woman’s long-delayed and finally fulfilled wish to see a white Christmas, and at other times in subtle observations of people and nature. There seems to be an order in life, an order beyond our control, but I’ve never felt that organized religion was the way for me to manifest my belief in this order. The intense faith organized religion fosters in its adherents has always intrigued me, however, and I knew that there must be a middle ground, a place where, through the stories of others, I could gain a better understanding of the universal human need to be part of something greater than oneself. Early on I realized that I needed to set some basic guidelines for this project. The first principle was to plan nothing. Every trip would be to a particular region, but there would be no itinerary, no planned stops. This project was not an academic study, but rather the record of one person’s experiences and encounters with faith in America. Second, I would record the stories of the people I met along the way, allowing them to create the book’s content. Third, I would travel with faith. Not faith in a conventional religious sense, not faith as it is usually understood, but faith that this random sample would, in the end, make sense, that at the end of the project I would understand something that I did not understand at the beginning. I traveled with nothing but this faith and the kindness of others to guide me, a faith that connected me to others in a way I would never have achieved on my own. Along the way I met with crimson-robed monks in Wisconsin, a Mennonite pastor in Pennsylvania, and learned of the tragic death of a good friend in Maine. Through it all, I learned that faith helps us endure and understand the long perspective of time, helps us understand why the innocent suffer, and how events in the short term, however painful they are, may be the outward manifestation of something greater redirecting the course of our lives. When my grandfather died, my father taught me that a person’s soul lives on even after the physical body has moldered away, that our lives are part of a greater chain of being whether we choose to acknowledge this or not. This, I think, is the essence of the human experience, this knowledge that we are all connected, every person to every other person. To experience this connection is something we all seek.

VINCE CIANNI/Courtesy of FOVEA . PHOTOGRAPHS MAY ONLYNovember 12th through February 11th 2012 Opening & Artists Talk Saturday November 12th, 5-9pm Panel Discussion January 14th 2012 at 5pm. Although “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) has been repealed, there have been considerabl effects from the ban on gays in the military over the years. Service members from World War 2 veterans to active duty personnel share their stories of their experiences in the military and the effects on their careers and lives.

“I cannot really tell you how many men came to rape me, but four months later, I was pregnant. I felt so bad, I tried committing suicide twice. I now live with HIV, which is a legacy of genocide.” —Sylvina In February of 2006, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik traveled to East Africa to report on a story for Newsweek coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. While in Rwanda, he heard the testimony of Margret Mukacyaka, a survivor who was raped during the Rwandan genocide and as a result of the rape had a child and contracted HIV/AIDS. Over the course of the next three years, Torgovnik made repeated visits to photograph these women and their children, and allow them to tell him their stories. Fovea is honored to host an exhibition of Torgovnik’s work and to have him speak in Beacon about his experiences this Saturday at the opening reception, scheduled from 5pm-9pm. The exhibit will be on view weekends through August 8th 2010. The exhibition is comprised of 13 portraits stunning individual portraits of the women with their children accompanied by their testimonies – intensely personal accounts of the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. A book of the same name has been published by Aperture, and brings together Torgovnik’s powerful stories of these women.

IMAGE CREDIT MUST READ: SHIHO FUKADA/Courtesy of FOVEA . PHOTOGRAPHS MAY ONLY BE USED FOR PROMOTION OF THIS EXHIBIT. The tragedy in Japan unfolds in news and documentary images by photographers from the Associated Press and Christoph Bangert/Redux, Peter Blakely/Redux, Paula Bronstein/Getty, David Butow/Redux, Adam Dean/Panos, James Whitlow Delano /Redux, Digital Globe, Shiho Fukada, GeoEye, David Guttenfelder/AP, Kyodo News, Chris McGrath/Getty, Dominic Nahr/Magnum, Mainichi Shimbun Daily, Q Sakamaki/Redux, Reuters, Ko Sasaki, & Donald Weber/VII. Donations will be collected for the Japan Society’s Earthquake Relief Fund. This exhibit also marks Fovea’s 4-year anniversary.

required photo credit Dave Anderson/Courtesy Fovea Exhibitions

IMAGE CREDIT MUST READ: HALE GURLAND/CONTACT PRESS IMAGES/Courtesy of FOVEA. PHOTOGRAPHS MAY ONLY BE USED FOR PROMOTION OF THIS EXHIBIT. September 10th through November 6th Opening reception Saturday September 10th, 5-9pm. Never-before-seen photographs from Ground Zero will be on exhibit to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Hale Gurland is a sculptor, photographer welder, and Tribeca neighbor who was called upon to help the rescue and recover mission that night. His black and white images recall Brueghel’s inferno, shot on 5 rolls of film the next few nights, before the media were granted access. Co-presented with Contact Press Images.