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Date: Thursday, April 08, 2010 At 06:30 pm
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List Auditorium, Brown University
64 College St., Providence Fazal Sheikh has collaborated with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. His books of photographs include "Ladli", "Moksha", "A Sense of Common Ground", "The Victor Weeps", "A Camel for the Son", and "Ramadan Moon". In 2005 Sheikh was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. He has also received the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photograph, the Prix d'Arles, and the Leica Medal of Excellence, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Art. In 1994 he was named by The New York Times as one of thirty artists, thirty and under, most likely to change the culture for the next thirty years. Co-sponsored by RISD Photography Department and the Bell Gallery |