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Lucyna Kolendo
Camera Obscura, 2012

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Today we remember the life of a great photojournalist and humanitarian, Tim Hetherington.

Tim Hetherington (1970–2011), an ICP faculty member and guest artist, photographed the experience of war from the perspective of the individual, mostly in West Africa and the Middle East. His film Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger about a platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011. Through his photographs, writing, and films, he gave us new ways to look at and think about human suffering. On April 20, 2011, while covering the conflict in Libya, Hetherington was killed by Libyan forces in a mortar attack on the besieged city of Misrata.

This presentation photo installation of Sleeping Soldiers is sponsored by HBO Documentary Films to accompany Junger’s new film Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington. All images courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

The work will be on view outside the ICP School pavilion through May 13. 

Read more about the documentary at Newsweek and on The New York Times LENS blog.

All images © Doug Sanford 

Represented by us: Photogroup Inc. 

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In her ongoing series of figurative sculptures titled Milky Ways, artist Mihoko Ogaki explores ideas of life, death, and rebirth. The dead or dying human forms are constructed from Fibre-reinforced plastic and embedded with bright LEDs that when lit project fields of light resembling stars in the surrounding space.

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Tsunami by LA based artist Rebeca Méndez. 

To produce the 20,000 sq ft mural, I directed an underwater film shoot, where the muse – a classic Japanese woman – appears to dissolve into waves of imagery. My intention is to enable two-dimensional surfaces to harbor illusions of depth, endowing them with such physical qualities as translucency and tension, transforming images from static, self-contained objects to open, flowing fields for visual experience - RM