Exhibition: Fading Lives (July 15 - August 31, 2011)

The Fading Lives exhibition is the inaugural exhibition at the Louie Photography Gallery. This exhibition consists of three series of black and white documentary photographs by local Edmonton photographers: Larry Louie, Jonathan Luckhurst and Gerald Yaum.

International humanitarian documentary photography Larry Louie will be exhibiting his series, A Working Day in Dhaka. It is an ongoing series composed of photos of the daily lives of regular people living a in country that has been unable to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world with an estimated 80% of its population living below poverty levels.

With recent exhibitions in France and Italy and publications in numerous photography magazines, Jonathan Luckhurst comes with an exhibition of his work of photographs from the Mass Hindu Pilgrimages in North India. All the photographs were taken with film cameras and hand printed in a traditional analog darkroom.

Accepted into the Alberta Foundation for the Art’s permanent collections, Gerald Yaum’s exhibition are of photographs taken in the Klong Toey Slum of Bangkok. It is a series documenting the short and difficult lives of people living there; the girls in the brothels who are likely to die young from AIDS; the children growing up in the streets without an education; people’s who’s stories and faces needs to be told and remembered.

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