November 20, 2008
VII gallery puts photojournalist focus on Georgian War
Top-shelf photo agency VII opened their own gallery in Dumbo almost a year ago, but the current work is the first time they’re showing an exhibition designed specifically for this space with their own team’s pictures.
It also unusual as it has a very ripped-from-the headlines feel as the topic is the maybe-it’s-over-maybe-it’s-not war in Georgia.
“Georgia: The August War” showcases of the work of three VII photographers sent to cover the fighting for three different purposes. Ron Haviv was on assignment for Dispatches magazine, Marcus Bleasdale shot for Human Rights Watch, and Donald Weber was working for Newsweek.
In case there’s any doubt which Georgia, one of the portraits is of a giant Stalin mural still displayed in one of the schools damaged in this past summer’s attacks. The powerful images capture not just the brutality but the deep worry on everyone’s faces, even the children. Mixed among the destruction is a darkly comic moment on video as the photo team realizes the unexploded cluster bombs a few feet away will explode if any one of the chickens milling about merely steps on one.
The Georgia exhibition will be on display through January 5 when it comes down to make way for a series of exhibitions on war crimes in Bosnia and Iraq that will ultimately coincide with the New York Photo Festival from May 14 through 24.
The VII gallery and bookshop is located at 28 Jay Street in Brooklyn, map. Admission is free.
Picture credit: Georgian families flee their homes from around the town of Gori as Russian soldiers move deeper inside Georgian territory. © 2008 Ron Haviv.
Provided to NewYorkology by VII.
Earlier: ‘Children of Darfur’ photographs at United Nations
November 20, 2008 3:11 PM in Cheap Stuff, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology
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