Opening: Stories and Migrations:  Concurrent Exhibitions Raise Awareness and Funds

Stories and Migrations:  Concurrent Exhibitions Raise Awareness and Funds
Photography by  Antoine Sanfuentes and Ann Curry of NBC and Deborah Terry of International Lifeline Fund

Stories and Migrations:  Concurrent Exhibitions Raise Awareness and Funds
Photography by  Antoine Sanfuentes and Ann Curry of NBC and Deborah Terry of International Lifeline Fund

Friday January 22nd at 7pm marks the opening at Honfleur Gallery of Stories, an exhibit of photographic stories created by three artists to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in  African nations.  Stories features documentary photography created by Antoine Sanfuentes in a 2008 visit to East Goma with NBC’s Ann Curry covering topics such as children soldiers of Africa, education and rape.  Works by Ann Curry will be presented from the same trip, alongside Deborah Terry’s images of Sudanese and Ugandan refugees and conflict victims as well as multimedia presentations of the grassroots work done by International Lifeline Fund.  Proceeds from this exhibition and the opening night fundraiser will go to support International Lifeline Fund.  

Concurrently, Terry will be exhibiting at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, also in Historic Anacostia, with a solo exhibition entitled Migrations, illuminating the lives of two disparate groups at odds in the Darfur conflict;  nomadic herders known as Janjaweed, and the refugees displaced by them.  

About the Artists: 
Antoine Sanfuentes is an Emmy award wining producer and the Deputy Bureau Chief for NBC news in Washington, DC.  He has traveled extensively with Today show's Ann Curry in Africa, several times to Darfur.  In February 2008, Sanfuentes and Curry traveled to war-torn Eastern Congo to report on the situation there. Over the course of a week in and around Goma, Congo the team covered the atrocities and the perpetrators of a conflict that has claimed more lives than in World War II.  Sanfuentes’ pictures document that journey including a visit to a so called "rape hospital" where entire wards are dedicated to survivors of brutal rapes. An interview with Rebel commander General Nkunda who now sits in a jail cell in Rwanda for crimes his forces committed against the Congolese and finally, the youngest casualties of this conflict, the children. The team visited UNICEF's secluded child soldier rehabilitation center.

Deborah Terry is the Vice President and Creative Director of International Lifeline Fund, based in Washington DC. In 2005, she helped found ILF with her partner Daniel Wolf in memory of his father, the late Professor George Wolff.  Rising from humble beginnings in Washington DC, Terry started shooting photography in the late 1980’s. She moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion photography. From fashion, she expanded her creative ability to music photography, working for various records labels in NYC. More recently she has turned to a more personally fulfilling undertaking, focusing on the challenge of uncovering the desperate plight of refugees and other impoverished peoples while capturing the simplicity and grace of their everyday life.  Her development work dovetails with her photography as she sheds light on some of the least known issues and challenges of these conflict zones.  

The International Lifeline Fund is a not for profit international relief and development organization dedicated to water & sanitation issues, microenterprise and fuel efficient technologies.  “The International Lifeline Fund seeks to reduce human misery and environmental destruction in the lesser developed world through programs and activities that generate the greatest possible impact at the lowest possible cost.” 

Honfleur Gallery is a contemporary art space located in the Historic Anacostia. Opened in 2007, it maintains a rigorous schedule of exhibitions and programming that focuses on cutting edge contemporary exhibitions by living artists from the USA and abroad. 

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions is a photography and digital arts exhibition space that is dedicated to showcasing and supporting established contemporary artists as well as aspiring local Washington, D.C. talents.  

ARCH Development Corporation 
Both galleries are projects of the ARCH Development Corporation whose mission is to act as a catalyst for cultural revitalization, primarily in the historic Anacostia neighborhood by creating a home for arts & artists, cultural organizations, and compatible businesses as a means to fulfill its objectives of community-based economic development and sustainable living neighborhoods.

For further inquiries, please contact Briony Evans Hynson, Creative Director at 202-536-8994 or arts@archdc.org. 

Honfleur Gallery
1227 Good Hope Road SE
Washington DC 20020
www.honfleurgallery.com

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
2208 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE
Washington DC 20020
www.vividsolutionsdc.com