Photography Exhibition
July 29 and July 31 at CCA
Preceding and following screenings
Peter Svarzbein, Photographer
A project of Vanessa Paloma and Peter Svarzbein.

No charge

In 2008, photographer Peter Svarzbein was invited by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Senior Fulbright Scholar in Tangier, to delve into the world she had been a part of that year: the Jewish Community of Northern Morocco. In March and June they zig zagged the country interviewing and photographing people from the Jewish community as well as their neighbors in cities where there are no Jews anymore. The result of those photography and interview sessions yielded photographs as well as texts/sound of the voices of the members of this community. Their desires, memories, anxieties and the celebration of their life as Sephardic Jews in Morocco, combining Moroccan, Spanish and Jewish identities into their own. The photographs were originally exhibited at the American Legation in Tangier and will be on display at CCA preceding and following the screenings on July 29 and 31.

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Meet Peter Svarzbein

Peter Svarzbein is a lens based artist, urban interventionist, curator and professor of photographic arts. A recipient of Photo District News' Merit Award and graduate of the renowned Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop, Svarzbein earned his MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Svarzbein has exhibited work both nationally and internationally including a video installation in the Guggenheim’s “Still-Spotting NYC” exhibition and at UTEP’s Rubin Gallery in El Paso and at the INBA Museum of Fine Art in Cd. Juarez, Mex. Svarzbein has also been a featured artist and Pop-Up Gallery curator for the city of El Paso’s "Chalk the Block” festival, the premier public art showcase on the USA/Mex. border and was awarded an Artist Incubator Grant for an upcoming installation planned for the summer of 2013.