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| This photo from Jim Hubbard's "Homeless Women Gone Wild" project shows one of its 10 homeless female photographers, Charlotte Bell (foreground), passing time while waiting for a bus in Venice. The shot was taken by another participant, Susan Ekland. Waiting on and riding buses is an integral part of these homeless women's lives, not only for transportation, but also to pass time, according to some of the participants. |
April 16, 2009
Jim Hubbard, an acclaimed social documentary photographer, nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of more than 100 photography awards, will participate in the Palisades Reads program on April 22 at 7 p.m. in the library of Corpus Christi School, 890 Toyopa Dr.
The program, 'Empowering People Through Photography,' describes Hubbard's experiences giving cameras to homeless youth in Washington, D.C. (collected in a book, 'American Refugees'), and to mentally ill women in Santa Monica to let them tell their stories.
Hubbard began his career in Detroit during the tumultuous 1960s, when the 1967 Detroit riots became one of the first major international stories he had photographed. He has covered many major stories, including the 1972 Munich Olympics and massacre, the 1979 Cambodian genocide by the Pol Pot regime, and 1973's Wounded Knee siege. His photographs have been published in many of the world's leading publications, and he served with the White House Press Corps, traveling with the President during his 16-year staff position with United Press International. Hubbard has photographed five U.S. presidents and numerous presidential campaigns, including Robert Kennedy's shortly before the senator's assassination in 1968. His work has also been featured on television shows and feature films.
Hubbard is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at USC and creative director at Venice Arts, which sponsors photography, art and filmmaking classes for people who live in low-income or underrepresented communities. Currently, he is working with the clients of Daybreak Shelter through a grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Daybreak is the only program on the Westside which works with women who suffer from long-term mental illness.
Please RSVP to info@palisadescares.org. Attendees are asked to bring new socks or toiletries, which will be donated to the homeless.
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