2010 Shows
STORIES: 1/22 - 2/26
 Friday January 22nd at 7pm marks the opening at Honfleur Gallery of Stories, an exhibit of photographic stories created by three artists to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations. Stories features documentary photography created by Antoine Sanfuentes in a 2008 visit to East Goma with NBC’s Ann Curry covering topics such as children soldiers of Africa, education and rape. Works by Ann Curry will be presented from the same trip, alongside Deborah Terry’s images of Sudanese and Ugandan refugees and conflict victims as well as multimedia presentations of the grassroots work done by International Lifeline Fund. Proceeds from this exhibition and the opening night fundraiser will go to support International Lifeline Fund.
About the Artists:
Antoine Sanfuentes is an Emmy award wining producer and the Deputy Bureau Chief for NBC news in Washington, DC. He has traveled extensively with Today show's Ann Curry in Africa, several times to Darfur. In February 2008, Sanfuentes and Curry traveled to war-torn Eastern Congo to report on the situation there. Over the course of a week in and around Goma, Congo the team covered the atrocities and the perpetrators of a conflict that has claimed more lives than in World War II. Sanfuentes’ pictures document that journey including a visit to a so called "rape hospital" where entire wards are dedicated to survivors of brutal rapes. An interview with Rebel commander General Nkunda who now sits in a jail cell in Rwanda for crimes his forces committed against the Congolese and finally, the youngest casualties of this conflict, the children. The team visited UNICEF's secluded child soldier rehabilitation center.
Deborah Terry is the Vice President and Creative Director of International Lifeline Fund, based in Washington DC. In 2005, she helped found ILF with her partner Daniel Wolf in memory of his father, the late Professor George Wolf. Rising from humble beginnings in Washington DC, Terry started shooting photography in the late 1980’s. She moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion photography. From fashion, she expanded her creative ability to music photography, working for various records labels in NYC.
More recently she has turned to a more personally fulfilling undertaking, focusing on the challenge of uncovering the desperate plight of refugees and other impoverished peoples while capturing the simplicity and grace of their everyday life. Her development work
dovetails with her photography as she sheds light on some of the least known issues and
challenges of these conflict zones.
International Lifeline Fund is a not for profit international relief and development organization dedicated to water & sanitation issues, microenterprise and fuel efficient technologies. The International Lifeline Fund seeks to reduce human misery and environmental destruction in the lesser developed world through programs and activities that generate the greatest possible impact at the lowest possible cost.
Photo Credit: Antoine Sanfuentes, NBC
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