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1/10/05

NY TIMES PHOTOJOURNALIST'S WORK EXHIBITED AT SLU GALLERY

CANTON – From Monday, January 17, though Saturday, February 19, the Richard 
F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University will present an exhibition 
by New York Times photojournalist Tyler Hicks entitled "Histories Are Mirrors: 
The Path of Conflict Through Afghanistan and Iraq."  Hicks will present a 
slide lecture on Tuesday, February 1, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths 
Arts Center; it is open to the public, free of charge. 
	Hicks was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and graduated with a degree in 
journalism from Boston University. After working for a number of years as a 
news photographer, he traveled to Kosovo in 1999 and Kenya in 2000-2001 on 
contract for the New York Times. Hicks traveled to Afghanistan after September 
11, 2001, to document the war against the Taliban for the Times and Getty 
Images. The recipient of the 2001 International Center for Photography 
Infinity Award for Photojournalism for his coverage in Afghanistan, he has 
also received awards for World Press and Pictures of the Year. As a Times 
staff photographer since 2002, Hicks has traveled to Iraq on several 
occasions to document the ongoing conflict.
	He states, "Before 9/11, I had never photographed an American war of 
the magnitude we've seen in Afghanistan and Iraq. The conflicts I had covered 
were other people's wars, far from home, in unfamiliar cultures and countries. 
Although it was the United States that bombed the Milosevic regime, where we 
photographed the peacekeeping mission that followed into Kosovo, the stakes 
there were ultimately European. Afghanistan and Iraq were about us, and I 
can't pretend the stakes didn't matter to me. Emotions were higher and more 
immediate, and the pictures and stories that came out of the war reflect 
that feeling."
	"Histories Are Mirrors" is a traveling exhibition organized and 
circulated by Umbrage Editions (see www.umbragebooks.com for more 
information).
	For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, 
contact the gallery at 315-229-5174.


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