Guantánamo Bay and The Library at Camp Delta
Davis Library Gallery
Through Fall 2016
Two exhibitions of photographs by award-winning photographer Christopher Sims will be on view in the Davis Library gallery at UNC–Chapel Hill through Fall 2016.
Guantánamo Bay and The Library at Camp Delta depict rarely-seen built environments through photographs that the Washington Post called “an important visual chronicle… [shot] with a dispassionate eye.”
On September 30, 2015, Sims delivered an artist lecture about the photographs, making use of the immersive Liquid Galaxy Google Earth display in the Research Hub of Davis Library. The free public talk was followed by a reception and exhibition viewing.
“[Guantánamo Bay] holds a certain meaning to us,” Sims told NPR in 2012, “but we don’t really know what the place looks like.” In the end, it took Sims more than two years of writing letters and submitting applications before he was allowed to visit the site and take photographs of environments and objects, but not of people.
Sims is the Undergraduate Education Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He received the Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer in 2010; was named one of the “new Superstars of Southern Art” by the Oxford American magazine in 2012; and is a 2015 recipient of the Arte Laguna Prize, one of Italy’s most prestigious photography awards. He is available to visit with classes about his photography projects based at Guantánamo Bay.
Sims is represented by Ann Stewart Fine Art, which organized the exhibitions in the Davis Library gallery.
See more at: http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/news/index.php/2015/09/sims/#sthash.CFSCsf0y.dpuf