Photographer Emily Schiffer, recipient of the inaugural Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture will lecture about her ongoing Cheyenne River project. She developed this body of work while teaching with My Viewpoint, a youth photography program she founded in 2005 on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. When teaching, she and her students photograph alongside each other, creating images that “explore ‘play’ as a vehicle through which youth reveal and negotiate their emotions, traumas and desires”. The prize was offered through the 2009 Photo Annual competition of Photo District News and is sponsored by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation with support from Maine Media Workshops, the American Society of Media Photographers, Photo District News, and the Farnsworth Art Museum.

 

Location: Farnsworth auditorium

Seating: limited to 70 people

Cost: $5 members; $8 nonmembers