SMFA photography faculty member Bonnie Donohue presents an exhibition of her recent work, Vieques: A Long Way Home, March 18 through May 18, 2006, at Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Donohue’s large-scale panoramic photographs of the island of Vieques feature stunning landscape views interrupted by abandoned munitions storage bunkers left from US Navy occupation of the site. The exhibition includes a series of recently declassified aerial pre-Navy era photographs of the area from 1941, which Donohue discovered in collaboration with César Ayala, professor of sociology at UCLA. Donohue recently retraced the 1941 aerial survey by re-photographing views of the same land, courtesy of Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines, and with support from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Donohue's work stems from documentary genre, but she utilizes exhibition strategies that extend conventions of documentary practice. This installation includes an audio piece that she designed in collaboration with former SMFA faculty member and acoustic artist Lauren Weinger and a performance that includes former residents of the land that she is photographing. For more information, visit: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/vieques/bdonohue/index.htm.
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