Photographers Alec Soth, Jeffrey Wolin, An-My Lê, and Deborah Luster have been selected for the 2008-09 Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series.

Each photographer will present an exhibition of their work in the Art Museum’s gallery along with a lecture and presentation at the UK Student Center’s Worsham Theatre.

All exhibitions and lectures are free.

ALEC SOTH
   Lecture: Friday, October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: September 26 - October 26, 2008
                     Art Museum Gallery

JEFFREY WOLIN
   Lecture: Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: October 31 - December 7, 2008 
                     Art Museum Gallery

AN-MY LÊ
   Lecture: Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center  
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: December 12, 2008 - February 15, 2009
                     Art Museum Gallery

DEBORAH LUSTER
    Lecture: Friday, April 3, 2009, 4:00 pm
                  Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                  Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
    Exhibition: February 20 - April 12, 2009
                      Art Museum Gallery

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ALEC SOTH

Lecture: Friday, October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
Exhibition: September 26 to October 26, 2008
                     Art Museum Gallery

Alec Soth shares his photographic journeys from the shores of one of America’s great rivers in Sleeping by the Mississippi, to the legendary waterfall and honeymoon haven in Niagara, to the birthplace of his daughter in Dog Days, Bogotá. He offers not only portraits of the people he finds along the way but lyrical images of the landscapes they inhabit and sometimes snippets of their dreams.

Image Credit: ALEC SOTH, Saint Genevieve, 2002, C-Print, courtesy of Alec Soth/Magnum Photos.

JEFFREY WOLIN

Lecture: Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:00 pm
                Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
Exhibition: October 31, to December 7, 2008 
                    Art Museum Gallery

Wolin, a professor of photography at Indiana University examines the Vietnam War and the continuing effect on its veterans by combining images and texts to create narrative portraits. Collected in the book Inconvenient Stories: Portraits of Vietnam War Veterans, his work tells the often harrowing stories of lives still disrupted by post traumatic stress disorder. Since the book was published in 2005, he has continued the project with Vietnamese veterans, whose perspectives, not surprisingly, are quite different than their American counterparts.

Image Credit:JEFFREY WOLIN, Ngo Huy Phat, Vietnam People’s Army Major Colonel, 2008, archival digital print. ©Jeffrey A. Wolin, courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery.

AN-MY LÊ

Lecture: Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
Exhibition: December 12, 2008 to February 15, 2009
                     Art Museum Gallery


An-My Lê was born in Vietnam in 1960 and came to this country as a political refugee in 1975, the final year of the war. Her photographs not only reveal her deeply rooted personal history but also raise larger questions about our perceptions of and relationship to war. For the series Small Wars, she spent four summers with Vietnam War reenactors in North Carolina, both as a photographer and as a reenactment participant. More recently she has photographed military training maneuvers for the Iraq War in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Her large-scale photographs reflect a sanitized version of military conflict, literally a theater of war.

Image Credit:AN-MY LÊ, M-246 Semi Automatic Weapon, Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal, Iraq, 2007, archival pigment print, courtesy Murray Guy Gallery, New York.

DEBORAH LUSTER

Lecture: Friday, April 3, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
Exhibition: February 20 to April 12, 2009
                    Art Museum Gallery

Deborah Luster is best known for her project One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, which was the result of more than three years spent photographing inmates at three Louisiana including the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Violent crime—and society’s response to it—is a subject that fascinates Luster, whose mother was a murder victim. Her portraits of prisoners introduce a remarkably diverse group of people, who reveal themselves on their own terms, sometimes wearing costumes designed for Halloween and Mardi Gras.

Image Credit:DEBORAH LUSTER, LCIW #89930, 2001, silver emulsion on aluminum, courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery and Catherine Edelman Gallery.