Photography
De Anza Exhibit
This series, exhibited at De Anza College, examines the often painful combination of exclusion in the midst of participation.
Being inside and outside at the same time might be horses in Kyrgyzstan who had been part of a collective farm and now roam free, though unattended. It may be children living in a residential institution in Romania who do not have their own toothbrush. It may be homeless Ethiopians living under a poster of the Prime Minister that hails democracy but all they receive is the protection of the poster. At times, however, we see participation be satisfying, such as a child living in a foster home in South Africa.
During Soviet times these horses belonged to a collective farm. They now roam the countryside, their stables in the background, destroyed with the collapse of the Soviet system.
During the transition from the Soviet system, garbage was not collected at a housing project on the outskirts of Dushanbe, the capital. This young man was walking his bicycle through the garbage dump.
In the bathroom of an institution for children with moderate disabilities. The children did not have their own toothbrushes.
A U.S. donor provided wood chips to be used to heat an orphanage after the earthquake that occurred in Armenia in 1987. The wood chips, which could not be burned in the orphanage's furnace, sat for years.
This child participates in a program for street children which teaches them to read, write and survive, and if possible, to reunite with their families. The program is at the main bus station where the children lived and worked on the street.
This child participates in a program for street children which teaches them to read, write and survive, and if possible, to reunite with their families. The program is at the main bus station where the children lived and worked on the street.
This man was at the bus station, looking in ominously at the street children. It is not uncommon for men to exploit children at bus stations in Bangladesh.
A mother is signing papers authorizing her brother and his wife to foster her child while she travels out of the country to work.
People living under posters: People were living under posters of the then Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi.
Sar Habakkuk is an Igbo Jew. He and the members of his congregation are not accepted as Jews by parts of the Jewish hierarchy in Israel.
Fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo caused thousands of people to cross the border at Gombe into Rwanda where they were temporarily resettled in a transit camp for thousands of people who after weeks or months would be transferred to longer-term resettlement camps.
This young girl is living in the foster home of the woman next to her. Although the woman had been a stranger to her and she is not with her own family she found a safe and nurturing home.
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