Barbara Probst

This exhibition is comprised of nineteen groupings from Barbara Probst’s series Exposures (2000-2006). The series dissects the relationship between the photographic “moment” and perceived reality by showing a single action from numerous points of view.

Jeffrey A. Wolin

Jeff Wolin began interviewing and making portraits of Vietnam War veterans in 1992, and resumed his work in early 2003, building a network that gained him access to veterans beyond the Midwest. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, then spearheading the Veterans History Project, wrote a letter on Wolin’s behalf to Vietnam veterans in Indiana, which ultimately allowed him to expand his network nation-wide. As an official partner of the Veterans History Project, Wolin’s videotaped interviews will be archived at the Library of Congress. Inconvenient Stories is exhibiting at MoCP from October 13 to December 17, 2005.

Eirik Johnson

Begun in late 2001, Eirik Johnson’s on-going series Borderlands navigates unclaimed spaces and the various and temporary relationships that develop where human and environmental forces meet. The scope of the project encompasses the frontiers of the American Northwest, ranging from British Columbia down through Nevada, with an emphasis on the outskirts of Seattle and the edges of the San Francisco Bay area. Borderlands is accompanied by a publication and exhibited at MoCP from August 2 to October 1, 2005.

An-My Lê

Though An-My Lê’s petition to be an embedded photographer in Iraq was denied, in 2003 she was granted permission to photograph U.S. military training exercises in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq. The series 29 Palms takes its name from the Marine base in southern California’s Mojave Desert where Lê photographed American soldiers both rehearsing their own roles and playing the parts of their adversaries. 29 Palms is accompanied by Lê’s 1999 to 2002 Small Wars series, a study of Vietnam War reenactments in the United States. This exhibition will be on view at MoCP in the fall of 2006.