Hope 4 Haiti Exhibit at Rosemary Beach opening 4/7/10
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So this is a photo exhibit?
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]We attended opening night and I have meaning to post more info- ahhh- as usual, short on time...[/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif] Such a powerful exhibit, but you do leave with a sense of hope. Empowering the Haitians with providing clean drinking water for themselves helps with the recovery process.....[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]I hope local churches see this exhibit and want to help with the water purification systems. I think Vicki was going to reach out to congregations to come to the exhibit, but if you can, copy this press release and contact info and pass it along to your church office. Even a mention in the weekly service program would be awesome!
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Arix Zalace has put together an amazing exhibit with Dustin Vann's photographs!
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Vacationers Leave Sun And Sand To Experience Post-Earthquake Reality Of Haiti[/FONT]
Rosemary Beach, Florida- April 9, 2010 - On January 12th of this year, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, devastating the capital city of Port au Prince and killing over 150,000 people. Two weeks later a team of men associated with the NGO Global Effect Ministry flew into the Dominican Republic to transport hundreds of portable water filtration systems into Haiti. The team was accompanied by photographer Dustin Vann to document the experience as they responded to this unmatched natural disaster by delivering water filters into the hands of mothers, orphanage directors and physicians. Today, far from the devastation in Haiti, a photography installation next door to Amavida in Rosemary Beach tells the story in searing black and white of excruciating pain and gleaming hope. The h2ope4HAITI exhibit is comprised of a selection of Dustin?s photographs, which paint a gripping tale of the earthquake?s immediate aftermath, the Haitian people?s ongoing resourcefulness and finally the hope in the resilient eyes of the survivors. But the h2ope4HAITI photography show is more than a gallery hanging. The curator, Arix Zalace, has created an experiential environment in which the viewer is transported to a place far from the carefree cobblestone streets of Rosemary Beach.
The viewer travels through the installation by winding through rubble and debris past make-shift housing, fully aware of human suffering and endless loss. Some of the tragic story lines that unfold in Dustin Vann?s telling compositions are that of a crumbled nursing school as bodies were still being recovered from the rubble. The nurse?s lockers still contained uniforms and personal belongings, and textbooks were scattered throughout the rubble. A notebook of personal writings is reduced to a tattered debris left to be trampled upon. What looks like another pile of twisted metal and concrete is actually the final resting place of a person who could not be recovered. Bodies left in the rubble were cleaned to the bones by the many animals that roamed the streets searching for food. Family and friends being dug out like pieces of waste and set along the streets waiting for dump trucks to collect the bodies and take to landfills for disposal. Another haunting image shows the site of smoldering mass graves and final resting place for tens of thousands of Haitian people.
Dustin tells, ?Sleeping in the city of Port au Prince was something we will never forget. Settling down for the night on a bed of gravel and trying to sleep, the sounds of the night were almost mind-bending at times. Our journey played over and over in the mind, but you could not forget the task still at hand; water, water, water, so basic yet?? A recurring theme in h2ope4HAITI is the desperate need for clean drinking water, brought into splendid focus with a simple image of a broken water faucet. In another image you can see water infested with waste and debris, yet used to cook, drink and bathe. Dustin says his life will never be the same and recounts, ?We went into Haiti because of the need for clean water after any natural disaster. Clean water is the most important necessity of Haitian survivors in order to drink, to cook, to clean? and they need it to practice medicine. Water is the sustainer of all life. When we gave a filter to a family, we essentially handed them the power to create clean water from any water source.? By the end of the exhibit, the camera lens has focused on the undeniable element of this well-told pathos-filled story? hope in the midst of despair. For more information about the clean water project visit www.h2ope4haiti.org.
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Contact:
Vicki Steelman
steelmanhouse@hotmail.com
P.O. Box 611635
Rosemary Beach, Florida 32461
Ph: 954-892-9430[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Note: The [FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]h2ope4HAITI[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif] gallery exhibit will be open to the public through May 2010 from 11:00 am ? 9:00 pm Wednesday - Sunday. A small donation is accepted for a walk-through interview between the show curator and the photographer recorded for the viewer on an MP3 player. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif] Such a powerful exhibit, but you do leave with a sense of hope. Empowering the Haitians with providing clean drinking water for themselves helps with the recovery process.....[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]I hope local churches see this exhibit and want to help with the water purification systems. I think Vicki was going to reach out to congregations to come to the exhibit, but if you can, copy this press release and contact info and pass it along to your church office. Even a mention in the weekly service program would be awesome!
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Arix Zalace has put together an amazing exhibit with Dustin Vann's photographs!
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[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Vacationers Leave Sun And Sand To Experience Post-Earthquake Reality Of Haiti[/FONT]
Rosemary Beach, Florida- April 9, 2010 - On January 12th of this year, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, devastating the capital city of Port au Prince and killing over 150,000 people. Two weeks later a team of men associated with the NGO Global Effect Ministry flew into the Dominican Republic to transport hundreds of portable water filtration systems into Haiti. The team was accompanied by photographer Dustin Vann to document the experience as they responded to this unmatched natural disaster by delivering water filters into the hands of mothers, orphanage directors and physicians. Today, far from the devastation in Haiti, a photography installation next door to Amavida in Rosemary Beach tells the story in searing black and white of excruciating pain and gleaming hope. The h2ope4HAITI exhibit is comprised of a selection of Dustin?s photographs, which paint a gripping tale of the earthquake?s immediate aftermath, the Haitian people?s ongoing resourcefulness and finally the hope in the resilient eyes of the survivors. But the h2ope4HAITI photography show is more than a gallery hanging. The curator, Arix Zalace, has created an experiential environment in which the viewer is transported to a place far from the carefree cobblestone streets of Rosemary Beach.
The viewer travels through the installation by winding through rubble and debris past make-shift housing, fully aware of human suffering and endless loss. Some of the tragic story lines that unfold in Dustin Vann?s telling compositions are that of a crumbled nursing school as bodies were still being recovered from the rubble. The nurse?s lockers still contained uniforms and personal belongings, and textbooks were scattered throughout the rubble. A notebook of personal writings is reduced to a tattered debris left to be trampled upon. What looks like another pile of twisted metal and concrete is actually the final resting place of a person who could not be recovered. Bodies left in the rubble were cleaned to the bones by the many animals that roamed the streets searching for food. Family and friends being dug out like pieces of waste and set along the streets waiting for dump trucks to collect the bodies and take to landfills for disposal. Another haunting image shows the site of smoldering mass graves and final resting place for tens of thousands of Haitian people.
Dustin tells, ?Sleeping in the city of Port au Prince was something we will never forget. Settling down for the night on a bed of gravel and trying to sleep, the sounds of the night were almost mind-bending at times. Our journey played over and over in the mind, but you could not forget the task still at hand; water, water, water, so basic yet?? A recurring theme in h2ope4HAITI is the desperate need for clean drinking water, brought into splendid focus with a simple image of a broken water faucet. In another image you can see water infested with waste and debris, yet used to cook, drink and bathe. Dustin says his life will never be the same and recounts, ?We went into Haiti because of the need for clean water after any natural disaster. Clean water is the most important necessity of Haitian survivors in order to drink, to cook, to clean? and they need it to practice medicine. Water is the sustainer of all life. When we gave a filter to a family, we essentially handed them the power to create clean water from any water source.? By the end of the exhibit, the camera lens has focused on the undeniable element of this well-told pathos-filled story? hope in the midst of despair. For more information about the clean water project visit www.h2ope4haiti.org.
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Contact:
Vicki Steelman
steelmanhouse@hotmail.com
P.O. Box 611635
Rosemary Beach, Florida 32461
Ph: 954-892-9430[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]Note: The [FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif]h2ope4HAITI[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, sans-serif] gallery exhibit will be open to the public through May 2010 from 11:00 am ? 9:00 pm Wednesday - Sunday. A small donation is accepted for a walk-through interview between the show curator and the photographer recorded for the viewer on an MP3 player. [/FONT][/FONT]
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