Displaying items by tag: The Bridges to Understanding Program
Global Storytelling: The Bridges to Understanding Program
27 June 2004
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Travel Photography
An ambitious program encourages children from around the world to share their cultural heritage with one another.
The work of photographer Phil Borges is instantly recognizable: selectively toned, medium-format portraits of people in indigenous and tribal cultures set against sweeping black-and-white landscapes. These photographs are remarkable because they clearly are collaborative works; his subjects engage the viewer with gazes so direct that the images appear to be authored just as much by...