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ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTS
8th ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL – ACP 8

LECTURE SERIES
The ACP 8 Lecture Series offers the opportunity to learn more about and meet leading photographers, educators, and curators that have either helped define or are breaking new ground in their fields. This year's series includes Ron Haviv, Elliott Erwitt, and Shannon Ebner.

Ron Haviv

Tuesday, October 3, 7:00 p.m.
Ron Haviv Lecture and Discussion with Ellen Fleurov and Kris Torgeson
"On the Front Lines of Today's Wars with Photojournalist Ron Haviv"
Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
www.woodruffcenter.org

Ron Haviv, award-winning photojournalist with the VII Photo Agency, has captured some of the most significant images of war, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Haviv, whose work has regularly appeared in Fortune, TIME, Newsweek, NY Times Magazine, Paris Match and STERN, has received numerous honors, including the Leica Medal of Excellence and an Overseas Press Club Award. His extensive coverage of political and social upheaval includes the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, Nelson Mandela's rise to the South African presidency, and upheaval in Haiti. In 1992, the World Press Photo Foundation granted this American photojournalist an award of excellence for his work in the Balkans in 1991.

Haviv is one of five photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency who traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in order to shed light on the suffering of the Congolese people as they struggle to survive a conflict that remains virtually invisible to the outside world. Their work is presented in the photographic exhibition "Democratic Republic of the Congo: Forgotten War" and in a new book by the same name, published by de.MO. The exhibition has been shown in more than 20 cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States and will be on view at the Atlanta Photography Group Gallery from September 16 through October 7, 2006.

Haviv's lecture will be followed by a discussion with Kris Torgeson of Doctors without Borders (MSF), who established the relationship between MSF and VII Photographers. Ellen Fleurov will moderate this discussion as well as a question and answer session with the audience. This subject is of particular interest to Fleurov, who is the founder of Crossroads Traveling Exhibitions. Fleurov was formerly the Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, and the Museum Director of the California Center for the Arts, San Diego.

Presented with Doctors without Borders (MSF)

Elliott Erwitt

Tuesday, October 17, 8:00 p.m.
Elliot Erwitt Lecture
"Personal Best"
Book Signing of "Personal Best" following lecture
Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
571 South Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
www.carlos.emory.edu

Member of the prestigious Magnum Photo agency, Elliott Erwitt became famous for images that capture life's humorous side. Erwitt's books, journalistic essays, illustrations, and advertisements have been featured in publications around the world for forty years, and Erwitt began making films in the 1970s.

Erwitt began working in photography while still in high school, and early in his career he had the good fortune to meet Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker, who became significant mentors to the young photographer. In 1953, he was invited to join Magnum Photos by Capa, the agency's founder. Erwitt's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, both in NY and Paris, the Smithsonian Institute in D.C., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Kunsthaus in Zurich.

Following this lecture, Erwitt will sign his newly released book, Personal Best. This volume is a stunning assembly of work personally selected by Erwitt, and many of the images have never been previously published. Printed by teNues, this book is available to purchase for $125.00.

Sponsorship for this event is provided by Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University

Shannon Ebner

Tuesday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.
Shannon Ebner Lecture
Hill Auditorium, High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
www.high.org

Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner is one of the art world's rising stars. Ebner's photographs capture transient and sometimes fleeting public art installations in various landscapes. Through her word choice and use of typography, Ebner infuses sharp wit and political undertones. With temporary interventions into the landscape, she photographically explores the ephemeral nature of contemporary existence. Ebner, who teaches at USC and UCLA, was recently recognized in Artforum's February 2006 issue in the annual "Top Ten" list highlighting promising artists.

Ebner’s work, "D.O.I.", was on view in June 2006 at Rockefeller Center in New York as part of ARTrock. Her work will be on view at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria from June 30 through November 12, 2006, and will be included in the High Museum of Art's fall exhibition, "Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography," on view from August 12, 2006 through January 2, 2007.

Presented with Photo Forum, a support group of the High Museum of Art

FESTIVAL GUIDE
As always, the ACP Festival Guide will list all festival-related events and happenings. The guide is ACP's primary resource for Atlanta residents and visitors interested in learning more. The on-line guide can be found at the ACP website, www.acpinfo.org. Look for the printed guide in early September 2006.