Tent Life: Haiti

Photography by Wyatt Gallery

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October 13, 2011 – November 25, 2011

OAS | AMA F Street Gallery
1889 F St., NW (Corner of 18th Street)
Washington, DC 20006

Hours MON-FRI 9 AM-5 PM

THE EXHIBITION
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS presents Tent Life: Haiti, an exhibition of photographs by Wyatt Gallery and Young Haitians with Disability: 28 Winning Drawings.

Wyatt Gallery- the name of a person, not a place- visited Haiti following the devastating 2010 earthquake, using his camera to chronicle the lives of displaced Haitians living in tent communities.  The resulting photo series highlights uprooted people working independently to improve their conditions.  These images are collected in a book, Tent Life: Haiti, which depicts scenes of people living with undeterred resilience in the face of daunting circumstances, employing resourcefulness rather than waiting for outside aid.  

Wyatt Gallery is a Fulbright Fellow, PDN 30 rising star, past professor at University of Pennsylvania, and has been published in the New York Times, Geo Saison, Esquire, Mother Jones, Newsweek, and more.   He studied photography at the Tisch School of The Arts at New York University where he received his BFA In 1997.  In 1998, Wyatt began traveling the Caribbean photographing Spiritual Sites through a Rosenberg grant.  He spent two years in Trinidad on a Fulbright Fellowship, photographing its religious places, landscapes, people, and homes.

Also on display will be “Young Haitians with Disability,” which is made up of drawings by young Haitians resulting from an initiative of the Haitian Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities.  Haitian youth participated in a drawing contest based on the importance of building an inclusive society and incorporating the concept of universal accessibility as a fundamental aspect of the rebuilding effort in the country after the earthquake.

The OAS Department of Social Development and Employment sponsored an exhibition of 28 drawings at AMA’s Photo Gallery as a means of highlighting the talent of the young Haitian artists involved, the powerful message their works portray, and raising awareness about the challenges and opportunities for persons with disabilities in a post-earthquake Haiti.

Copies of Tent Life: Haiti will be available during the opening reception and through the run of the exhibition for $40. 100% royalties from this book go to Haitian charities J/P Haitian Relief Organization, Healing Haiti, and the Global Syndicate.  Tent Life: Haiti has contributed to raising over $30,000 for Haitian relief.  For more information on the book, please contact [email protected].  The J/P Haitian Relief Organization is dedicated to providing long term support for the people of Haiti. More information can be found at www.jphro.org.

FEATURED ARTIST
Wyatt Gallery is an award-winning photographer, Fulbright Fellow, PDN 30 rising star, past professor at University of Pennsylvania, and has been published in the New York Times, Geo Saison, Esquire, Mother Jones, Newsweek, and more. His recent book Tent Life: Haiti has contributed to raising over $30,000 for Haitian relief.

Wyatt Gallery (b.1975) received his BFA from the Tisch School of The Arts at New York University and has since received numerous awards such as the Fulbright Fellowship, the PDN 30, PDN Annual, American Photography, and 25 Under 25 Up-and-Coming American Photographers by Duke University.  Wyatt’s photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S.A. and are in major private and public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman House, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and American Express amongst others.  He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has been published in the New York Times, Geo Saison, Esquire, Mother Jones, and Newsweek in addition to other international publications.  Wyatt has photographed multiple books on Art and Architecture and published his first monograph Tent Life: Haiti with Umbrage Editions in 2011. Wyatt is a self-proclaimed nomad who loves photographing spiritual sites throughout the world.