{"id":19243,"date":"2014-02-10T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=19243"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:53:49","slug":"acclaimed-photojournalists-explore-optimism-and-ingenuity-of-brazilians-in-exhibit-opening-feb-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/acclaimed-photojournalists-explore-optimism-and-ingenuity-of-brazilians-in-exhibit-opening-feb-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed photojournalists explore “optimism and ingenuity” of Brazilians in exhibit opening Feb. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSonhos e Saudades\u201d<\/em> \u2013 the Portuguese title of an exhibit by acclaimed photojournalists Tyrone Turner and Susan Sterner \u2013 means \u201cdreams and longings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrazilians are big dreamers, incredibly optimistic,\u201d Sterner explained in a recent telephone interview, reflecting on the time, 1998-’00, when she and Turner, her professional partner and husband, worked in Northeastern Brazil. A two-year fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs Time enabled them to document, in still photography, the human side of issues there, including land rights, literacy, public health and women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

An exhibit of this work opens Feb. 14 in Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Margaret Martin Gehman Gallery in the University Commons.\"unnamed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Paulette Moore<\/a>, associate professor in EMU’s visual and communication arts department<\/a>, characterizes the couple as \u201csome of my oldest and dearest friends,” whom she met when they were neighbors in Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been amazing for me to watch them grow and change,\u201d Moore adds. \u201cEverything they do has a deeply human element.\u201d She views their creativity as never \u201cmerely aesthetic. They\u2019re deeply concerned with every story. They are not patronizing, but walk with the people they photograph.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple will speak at both the exhibit opening and a performance of the play Time Stands Stil<\/em>l<\/em> on the evening of Feb. 14.<\/p>\n

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Susan Sterner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sterner was touched by the Brazilians\u2019 \u201coptimism and ingenuity \u2013 how they went about solving problems. It\u2019s a country of survivors.\u201d Northeastern Brazil\u2019s sert\u00e3o<\/em> (backcountry) is a semi-arid, often-mythologized area that entails \u201chard lives.\u201d Droughts and famines require frequent migrations, reminiscent of America\u2019s Depression-era Dust Bowl, Sterner explained. She and Turner primarily worked in the provinces Bahia and Pernambuco and the city Recife.<\/p>\n

Sterner is director of photojournalism programs at D.C.\u2019s Corcoran College of Art and Design. Prior to the Brazil project, she documented immigration and poverty in the United States and life in Haiti for the Associated Press. From 2001 to 2006, she was a White House photographer.<\/p>\n

Sterner\u2019s work was previously featured in a 2011 exhibit at EMU, titled \u201cWomen\u2019s Apron Stories,\u201d which centered on women in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

\"Tyrone.pic\"<\/a>
Tyrone Turner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Turner, a New Orleans native and adjunct professor at the Corcoran, has worked with the Times Picayune<\/em> and Los Angeles Times<\/em> newspapers. His work has appeared in National Geographic<\/em> on subjects including Katrina, the Gulf Oil Spill and quilombos<\/em> (descendants of runaway slaves who settled on the Brazilian frontier).<\/p>\n

The couple will speak at 4 p.m. at the Feb. 14 opening of \u201cSonhos e Saudades: Tracing Northeastern Brazil.\u201d That evening they will participate in a talk-back following a production of\u00a0Time Stands Still,\u00a0 <\/em>a Tony nominated play written by Pulitzer Prize winning Donald Margulies, at 7:30 pm in the Eshleman Studio Theater. The play is about a photojournalist who has returned home from covering war-torn Iraq, where she was injured; she must deal with personal issues, including her relationship to her reporter-boyfriend,\u00a0 a fellow war correspondent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSonhos e Saudades\u201d \u2013 the Portuguese title of an exhibit by acclaimed photojournalists Tyrone Turner and Susan Sterner \u2013 means \u201cdreams and longings.\u201d \u201cBrazilians are big dreamers, incredibly optimistic,\u201d Sterner ... read more about Acclaimed photojournalists explore “optimism and ingenuity” of Brazilians in exhibit opening Feb. 14<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":19252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7931,5583,14184],"tags":[13839,13890,15317,15307,15316],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-19243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","tag-margaret-martin-gehman-art-gallery","tag-paulette-moore","tag-susan-sterner","tag-time-stands-still","tag-tyrone-turner"],"yoast_head":"\nAcclaimed photojournalists explore "optimism and ingenuity" of Brazilians in exhibit opening Feb. 14 - 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