Table Quiz Anti War Photography Exhibition Fundraiser

national | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday September 04, 2008 11:06 by Michael Gallagher - Photographer libertypics at yahoo dot ie 086 4048249

Funds Desparately Needed

Anti War Photography Exhibition Fundraiser
'Images of Resistance -inside and outside of Iraq.

'Table Quiz, The Auld Triangle pub, corner Dorset St/Gardiner St, Dublin 1.
10 mins from Luas and Dart.
Friday, 19th September, 8-11pm...late bar....prizes, music, raffle and craic. €6 pp - max 5 per team.
Can you bring a prize for the raffle? Envelopes of any colour welcome.

Bank of Ireland, Talbot Street Dublin 1.

Account no: 90747246 Sort Code:900711

www.flickr.com/photos/libertypics

Gravestones (c) Michael Gallagher

Hello,
My name is Michael Gallagher, a photojournalist from Dublin.
'Images of Resistance -inside and outside of Iraq', is the title of an anti war photography exhibition that will be shown in the lead up to the American presidential election from October 1st - November 4th 2008, in the Gallery 1199, Manhattan, New York.
This gallery is owned by the SE1199 trade union which represents over a million service and health workers (most of them immigrants or descendants of immigrants) in the USA. Recently that union has pledged its support to Barack Obama for the US presidential election.

The main purposes of the exhibition -through the medium of print and slide/dvd photography with audio commentary- is to help raise consciousness and awareness in the public of the opposition to wars, the plight of the people in war torn countries, the real reasons behind wars, to show the collateral damage and the situations soldiers find themselves in.
The work is from the efforts of mainly four photographers from their travels in Europe, the USA and conflict areas such as Palestine and Lebanon etc. Soldiers serving or who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc, have supplied images also.

Dennis Halliday the former UN Assistant Secretary-General and ex-UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq (who resigned because of the lies from the Bush administration during 'the weapons of mass destruction' controversy), and/or former US Attorney General, (under the LBJ administration) Ramsay Clarke (who is now an anti war and anti Bush campaigner), will be giving of their time to open the exhibition. We also hope to show this exhibition in other countries that have any involvement in any wars or the arms industry.

Initially, we had hoped to raise at least €7,000, this would have covered all the costs, including travel expenses to get four photographers to New York, but we have had to pare this back. To stage the work in New York including printing, framing, etc, will be at least €2,500. The photos have been printed at a cost of almost €700, we now need roughly another €1,500 to pay for frames, freight and posters etc.
If you can help out in any way with sponsorship, names of potential sponsors or a donation, we would be very grateful. A detailed list of costs can be had on request.

Some of the 50-70 images under consideration can be seen through the links on the sites below, which includes some powerful and very graphic images (discretion advised) recently taken in Iraq by Zoriah Millar, who recently -just through good fortune- escaped death near a suicide bombing.
Link to Herald Tribune article, Saturday 26th July. 'A Sanitised View of the War'.

www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/26/africa/embed.php

Many thanks for your time and support. Kind regards.

Michael.

Phone: (00353) 086 4048249 Email: libertypics@yahoo.ie

www.flickr.com/photos/libertypics www.zoriah.net

All images are copyright of the photographers.

Photographers: Michael Gallagher, Paul Mattsson, Guy Smallman and Zoriah.