This Side of Hope

06 July - 30 August 2007

Opening Reception:

Friday, 06 July 2007

6-9 pm

Michael Genovese

Carlos J. Ortiz

Jon Lowenstein

Multi Media Exhibition

Michael Genovese
Emerging from Chicago's inner-city, Michael's journey is colored by the vibrant diversity of culture and self discovery. He incorporates various skills and materials, learned from his visual progress, to communicate a socially conscious agenda. Michael builds bridges with his work, producing subject matter that speaks to the contemplation of art and industry, differences between cultures, and the value of process.

Carlos J Ortiz
Born in San Juan Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago. Ortiz is a photojournalist who worked on City 2000, a year long project documenting Chicago and its inhabitants. He travels to capture "Street Photography" and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Tribune Magazine, Parade, Philidelphia Publications, and others.

Jon Lowenstein
Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary photographic projects that question the status quo. He has completed work on his first book, which explores the lives of developmentally disabled people in Illinois and is now working on several book projects and helped publish "Our Streets" a community newspaper about the nearby South Side Chicago community that he is documenting. He has won many awards, including being recently named a 2007 World Press Photo Award, a 2007 USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism Racial Justice Fellow, and many more.

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