RICHARD BUTLER
Tasmanian Photographers have work submitted in New York City.
While the fallout from the worldwide financial crisis continues to reverberate, there is a unique opportunity to challenge the pre-existing concepts of wealth, consumerism, and capitalism in building a new economy, one that is based on sustainability and social justice.
In conjunction with Trinity Institute’s annual theological conference, which will address Building an Ethical Economy: Theology and the Marketplace in January 2010, Trinity Church Museum will present an international documentary photography exhibition that will capture this moment of economic, social, and spiritual change.
To date, Photographers Robert Blakers, Richard Butler and Dave Groves have images describing various Tasmanian issues submitted to the competition, based in New York City.
The exhibition asks photographers to consider in images:
• what is the current state of capitalism and its consequences?
• what signs of alternative thinking about economics are visible?
• are there examples of ethical economies currently operating in the world?
Submissions are open to professional and serious amateur photographers from the U.S. and around the world.
Images will be judged by Bob Shamis, independent curator and former curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York.
The exhibit will be on display at the Trinity Church Museum, Broadway at Wall Street, New York City, and online at trinitywallstreet.org from January 25 through April 5, 2010.
