The Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture presents Fazal Sheikh

"The Image Before You"

Fazal Sheikh’s lecture will center upon a series of images drawn from his work around the world with vulnerable communities, and the collaborative portraits that evince solidarity during moments of conflict and upheaval. The artist will speak about the complexities of balancing the imperatives of empowerment, protest, and protection in a conversation that culminates in his newest body of work, Exposure, set in the American Southwest—a work conducted in close collaboration with the Utah Diné Bikéyah Native American grassroots organization to examine the human and environmental costs of the exploitation of public lands.

Fazal Sheikh is an artist who has spent his career photographing individuals and communities displaced by conflict and environmental change. His principal form is the portrait, although his projects also encompass personal narratives, found photographs, sound recordings, archival material, and academic essays, as well as his own written texts. Sheikh is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Fulbright Foundations, and he has exhibited his work internationally at venues that include the Tate Modern, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York City and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He is currently working on a series of projects in the Exposure series that confront environmental racism in the American Southwest and the impacts of extractive industries upon public lands and local communities. 

Sponsored by the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture Fund.
For more information, contact Jenn Berube Lord at jberube@bowdoin.edu or 207-725-3928. 
Open to the public free of charge.

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Co-hosted with: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Sociology, Africana Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Environmental Studies, Art History, Anthropology, Visual Arts, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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