Light Work
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse

Since 1980, Lonnie Graham has traveled throughout Asia, Africa and North America interviewing people and recording their opinions and beliefs regarding their culture, heritage and traditions. In 1994, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a PEW Travel Grant, enabling him to expand his travels, broadening the scope of this project. Graham says of "A Conversation with the World": "This is an innovative project in its combination of visual art with elements of socio-anthropology. The project also illustrates basic needs of the human condition with a clear and articulate template … and seeks to delve beneath the superficial patina of cultural differences and explore the essential and fundamental motivations of human beings in order to clearly illustrate the bond that is inherent in our humanity."

Graham is the founder of the African/American Garden Project, a physical and cultural exchange program. He has exhibited his work internationally and was recently awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, one of the largest grants for an individual artist, which supported this project. Graham is a professor of photography at Pennsylvania State University.

For more information regarding this exhibition or any other Light Work/Community Darkroom event, contact Light Work at 443-1300.

Selections from this exhibit can be found in the Multimedia/Gallery section.