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Striking Photographs from Durham Magnet Center Students' Trip to Ghana On Exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies In the summer of 1998, nine students from the Durham Magnet Center journeyed along with adult educators to Ghana as part of a year-long cultural enrichment program called Into Africa. The students were accompanied by the arts outreach coordinator from the Center for Documentary Studies, Lori Ungemah, who helped to coordinate a photography program with the traveling students. The students' work has blossomed into an curated exhibition entitled Ghana: Two Weeks, Nine Students, Many Cameras, which will open at the Center for Documentary Studies on October 18th. Visitors to this exhibition will see this small West African nation as Durham middle and high school students saw it. The photographs are uninhibited and honest, showing both cultural differences and similarities. Accompanying the photographs are thoughts and reflections written by the students. These texts expand upon the visual narrative and supply insights into the preconceptions this group of thirteen to fifteen year-olds took with them to Ghana, and the understanding they came back with.
Ghana: Two Weeks, Nine Students, Many Cameras will open on Sunday, October 18 with a reception from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M., and will run through December 1, 1998. The exhibition is located in the Porch Gallery at the Center for Documentary Studies. Porch Gallery hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9:00 A.M. to 7:30 P.M.; Friday, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.; and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. The Center for Documentary Studies is located at 1317 West Pettigrew Street, across the railroad tracks from Duke's East Campus. For more information, please call: (919) 660-3663. |