EUGENE RICHARDS
Exhibition: March 14 - April 27, 2014
Lecture: March 14, 4 pm in the UK Student Center's Worsham Theater
A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, Eugene Richards
joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) in 1968 and found
himself working in a community service organization in eastern
Arkansas. Running afoul of the Ku Klux Klan earned him a serious
beating and numerous threats, but he left Arkansas with a series of
haunting photographs of rural poverty that launched his career. For
seventeen years, he traveled the world as a photojournalist for the
agency Magnum and now focuses on his own projects. Intensely personal
and deeply felt, his work also reflects a lifelong commitment to social
activism, whether he is photographing the ravages of cocaine
addiction, his first wife’s struggle with breast cancer, or the
emotional aftermath of 9/11.
Image credit: EUGENE RICHARDS, After the Birth, 2008 gelatin silver print photograph ©Eugene Richards, All Rights Reserved
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