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By and About Women Show Catalog
December 2010
Hardcover Catalog
By and About Women is a special, limited edition, portfolio of art and poetry by women artists from around the world and the creative writing group of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter, situated in the heart of the historic African American district of Overtown, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami.
Lotus House serves approximately 130 women and infants annually, with a holistic, gender specific and innovative format designed to empower women to improve the quality of their lives on every level, achieve greater self sufficiency and transition to permanent homes off the streets. The By and About Women project was created to both raise awareness of the Lotus House as a prototype, women’s resource center and shelter serving the gender-specific needs of homeless women and infants, and build an endowment fund to ensure that the shelter will serve as a resource for generations of women and infants to come.
Touching, soulful and beautiful, the By and About Women portfolio resonates deeply with the concept and cause underlying the Lotus House, and in so many ways gives voice to the dreams and aspirations of all women to be safe, free and truly who they were meant to be. In both, we transform the isolation of poverty and homelessness into a message of hope, social inclusion and heightened awareness of what each of us can do to make a difference.
Contributing artists include: Peggy Nolan, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Carrie Mae Weems, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Jackie Nickerson, Justine Kurland and Natasha Duwin. By and About Women is a project of the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc., sponsored by Sotheby’s and Martin Z. Margulies. Proceeds from the sale of the portfolio go to the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc.
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The Secret Collaborators
by Sean Hemmerle
April 2005
Paperback, 68pp
Secret Collaborators represents the culmination of more than three years of work by the photographer Sean Hemmerle. It is the catalogue from the exhibition at the Front Room gallery in Brooklyn. With photographs from CENTCOM (Tampa), Baghdad, Kabul, and the American media, Hemmerle explores the relation between the war on the ground and the way it is being sold to the public.
Hemmerle’s photos appear regularly in national and international publications. His photos have twice been selected for Time's Photos of the Year. His work from Iraq was recently shown at The Open Society Institute as part of Moving Walls 9. Hemmerle was born in Tempe, AZ, in 1966. He earned his B.A. at the University of Miami and his M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts. He served in the United States Army from 1984 to 1988, receiving an honorable discharge with the rank of sergeant.
by Brenda Ann Kenneally (Author), Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (Foreword)
December 2005
Hardcover, 100pp
Money, Power, Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood chronicles pregnancies and births, institutions and streets, drugs and rehab, showing the community of inner-city families at once full of life and also institutionalized by the welfare system. Through it all, Kenneally evokes their dreams for a better life, tempered with the awareness that they may be caught in the cyclic lifestyle of limited opportunites. The photographs are in the best sense fully present, alive to what, rather than searching for what is not. Her images draw us to hope for their survival and compel us to experience the depths and complexities of family life in the American social and justice systems. Money, Power, Respect details a crucial historical moment in our nation's nearly total abandonment of the poor. This book makes it impossible to turn away from the yearning towards life, to detach the economics of the situation from the machinery of the heart.