Photo Show Opening at the Brecht Forum

["Urania Mylonas" <urania@email.women.com>]

Photography opening:  Mark your calendar
April 2, 6pm, The Brecht Forum, 122 W. 27th St. New York, 212 242-4201
La Lucha Continua
> We Resist, We Re-act
>
> 2 Photographers: Celia Escudero-Espadas and Diane Greene Lent
>
> Two women with different artistic styles but very similar political
> views present La Lucha Continua; We Resist, We Re-Act.  This exibit
> portrays the people in struggle from Chiapas to Brooklyn.  The role of

> the activist photographer is to give vision to the people's message.
> Throughout the world the people fight back, but the media often
chooses
> to ignor the protests.  If they do see the light of print or
broadcast,
> all too often the action is characterized as "shades of the sixties".
> La Lucha Continua shows what the people have to say.  Celia
> Escudero-Espadas of Spanish origin travels and photographs in Mexico
and
> Central America.  As an activist, her photos are an attempt to foster
> social justice and develop understanding between different cultures by

> elictiing viewer solidarity with her subjects. Included are images
from
> Chiapas of the indiginous people and the Zapitistas where they live
and
> struggle. Diane Greene Lent is a New York based photographer who gets
> out in the streets to make her images. Greene has also done some
> traveling and brings images from Chile, Mexico, El Salvdor and
Northern
> Ireland.
>
> Celia Escudero-Espadas was born in Seville, Sapin and studied
> photography in Madrid,  Spain and in Maryland.  She has been actively
> involved with the solidarity movement in Nicaragua, El Salvdador,
> Chiapas(Mexico) and the US.  As a photographer committed to social
> isues, Ms Escudero has published photos and articles about AIDS,
people
> of color in the U.S. and indigenous people in numerous publications
> including the New York Times and Z magazine.
>
> Diane Greene Lent is a New York activist and photographer.  She works
> with the Brecht Forum and CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the

> People of El Salvador) and provides photographs and is the web
designer
> for both organizations.  Greene studied photography at the ICP
> (International Center of Photography) in New York. She has published
> photographs in numerous publications including the Village Voice and
New
> York Magazine.

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