HOME
Home. Is it a place? Is it a feeling? Home is where and how you live and at the heart of everything. It’s your house, your neighborhood and your community.
Renowned Colorado Springs based documentary photographer Chuck Bigger has had the privilege to visit and be invited to photograph in homes in nearly forty countries around the world.
A selection of works centered on the theme of HOME will be on exhibit at GO-SEE Art Exhibition Venue (located at Godec's Photo Supply).
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HOME
Home. Is it a place? Is it a feeling? Home is where and how you live and at the heart of everything. It’s your house, your neighborhood and your community.
Renowned Colorado Springs based documentary photographer Chuck Bigger has had the privilege to visit and be invited to photograph in homes in nearly forty countries around the world.
A selection of works centered on the theme of HOME will be on exhibit at GO-SEE Art Exhibition Venue (located at Godec's Photo Supply).
Bigger recently visited Haiti for a series of magazine articles on the five year anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake that claimed 250,000 lives, injured another 300,000 and displaced countless others creating an internal refugee crisis.
“I was surprised to learn that five years on there are still some 85,000 displaced people living in various tent cities around the capitol. I visited several of the camps and the homes of people still living in the patched together tents that they were given in the weeks after the quake,” said Bigger.
After witnessing the despair of those people first-hand he made a decision to try and do something for at least some of those he met. So the exhibit will be in the format of a fundraiser to build at least one home. A simple, but solid structure home, can be built in Haiti for $800.00-1000.00 The first one will be built for Guny Raphael and his family of eight,(at left) in which the funds for the construction will be administered through Compassion International’s Haiti office.
Bigger said, “Guny’s head and shoulders sank and he cast his gaze downward as he told me that after five years of living in the tent he had given up hope of ever having a solid roof over his head again. That kind of stuck with me and is the impetus for this show.”
The images on display will offer an intimate look into the homes and lives of the poor around the world. “I hope people will look upon them with some empathy and perhaps even see a bit of themselves among the subjects of the photographs.”
The exhibition will be on display at GO-SEE Art Exhibition Venue through the end of May. Opening reception, Friday May 1st, 2015. 5:30-9:30pm
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