Photographers Jahi Chikwendiu, Mike Smith, Lili Almog, and Sarah Hoskins have been selected for the 2009-10 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.

JAHI CHIKWENDIU
   Lecture: Friday, October 23, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: October 3 - November 1, 2009
                     Art Museum Gallery

MIKE SMITH
   Lecture: Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: November 7 - December 13, 2009 
                     Art Museum Gallery

LILY ALMOG
   Lecture: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center  
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: January 5 - February 28, 2010
                     Art Museum Gallery

SARAH HOSKINS
   Lecture: Friday, March 26, 2010, 4:00 pm
                  Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                  Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
    Exhibition: March 6 - April 11, 2010
                      Art Museum Gallery

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JAHI CHIKWENDIU
   Lecture: Friday, October 23, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: October 3 - November 1, 2009
                     Art Museum Gallery


Award-winning photojournalist and Lexington native Jahi Chikwendiu travels the world for the Washington Post. Chikwendiu, a University of Kentucky graduate who began his career at the Lexington Herald Leader, was named 2008 Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. His work has taken him to Iran, Kurdistan, Uganda, and many other trouble spots.

Image Credit: JAHI CHIKWENDIU, Sally Sami, A Blogger Who Left Her Home Country of Egypt (reflected), 2007, Digital print, courtesy of the artist and The Washington Post.

MIKE SMITH
   Lecture: Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: November 7 - December 13, 2009 
                     Art Museum Gallery



Mike Smith's photographs of rural Tennessee embrace the lush beauty of the land, even as he reveals the suburban encroachment that threatens much of rural Appalachia. In his large-format color photographs, Smith unearths telling signs of human impact on the landscape, from aged, weather-beaten farm buildings that seem an organic part of the landscape to the jarring reality of bright, new multi-pump gas stations.

Image Credit:MIKE SMITH, Unicoi, TN, 1998, Chromogenic print, courtesy of the artist.

LILI ALMOG
   Lecture: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00 pm
                 Worsham Theater, UK Student Center  
                 Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
   Exhibition: January 5 - February 28, 2010
                     Art Museum Gallery


Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog has worked recently on two series that focused on women who, for various reasons, are living in isolation from the world. Perfect Intimacy, reflects on the cloistered life of Carmelite nuns in monasteries in Palestine, Israel, and Maryland. In The Other Half of the Sky, Almog photographs the matriarchal society of Muslim women in China.

Image Credit:LILI ALMOG, Flying Nun (Perfect Intimacy series), 2005, Dicital C. print, courtesy of the artist.

SARAH HOSKINS
   Lecture: Friday, March 26, 2010, 4:00 pm
                  Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
                  Limestone St. & Euclid Ave.
    Exhibition: March 6 - April 11, 2010
                      Art Museum Gallery

Chicago-based photographer Sarah Hoskins will conclude this year's lecture series by speaking about her project The Homeplace. For nine years, she has documented the inhabitants and settings of historic African-American hamlets in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Many of the settlements were founded by freed slaves in the decade after the Civil War and are now inhabited by the fifth generation of those families. Hoskins has been racing against time to preserve this important aspect of African-American history before it succumbs to development

Image Credit:SARAH HOSKINS, The Benevolent Sisters, Their 99th Year, 2004, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist.