Spring 2019
April 17 – Mayday
University of Mount Union – Alliance, Ohio
Langelle will be a Featured Artist and Lecturer
Earth Month Exhibit: Extreme Weather – Portraits of Struggle
April 17th to May 1st, 2019
Hoover-Price Campus Center
420 W Simpson St, Alliance, OH
Free and Open to the Campus Community and the Public
Artist Reception and Presentation
April 25th, 2019 – 4 p.m. to 6 pm.
Hoover-Price Campus Center Alumni Room
420 W Simpson St, Alliance, OH
Free and Open to the Campus Community and the Public
Press Release:
For Immediate Release April 9, 2019
Available for interviews: Orin Langelle <Langellephoto@Photolangelle.com>
Photojournalist Known for Documenting Environmental
Justice Struggles Presents Images of Climate Change
University of Mount Union Showing
Buffalo, NY— Award-winning documentary photographer Orin Langelle shows his exhibit, Extreme Weather – Portraits of Struggle, this month at the University of Mount Union. The exhibit opens on April 17 and runs to May 1 in the Hoover-Price Campus Center, 420 W Simpson St, Alliance, OH.
Langelle’s body of work spanning over five decades specializes in social and environmental justice struggles. He was recently interviewed on WBDX in Southern Illinois about this exhibit at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The interview can be found here.
There will be an Artist Reception and Presentation on April 25, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hoover-Price Campus Center’s Alumni Room. Langelle will speak on the many social and political reasons why the Earth is facing climate catastrophe.
Langelle stated, “My photographs are united by the intertwined threads of social, economic or ecological injustice and peoples’ resilience or resistance to them. Showing how these issues are intrinsically linked is crucial to understanding the whole–to seeing the big picture–instead of compartmentalizing each separately. I believe we must understand that everything is interconnected. The root causes of these problems are often one and the same.”
Langelle is the Director of Langelle Photography which is a component of the Global Justice Media Program of Global Justice Ecology Project with offices in New York State and Florida.
Jeff Conant, Director, Friends of the Earth’s international forests program said, “Orin Langelle is one of the great documentarians of the last several decades…You look at his photos and you cannot forget that power concedes nothing without a struggle…and that this struggle takes place somewhere, somehow, everyday and everywhere”
Both events are free and open to the campus community and the public.