Lucian Perkins and Darcy Courteau journeyed through rural Arkansas, long held in the American consciousness as backward and unsophisticated. Instead it’s a land populated with imaginative dreamers hanging on to self-sufficient country life.
PUBLIC SPHERE ARCHIVE
Land Bound in the Ozarksphotographer |
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The Political Theater Of The Absurdphotographer |
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Lucian Perkins photographs the political theater of the absurd at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this year. |
Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Reform 2012photographer |
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June 28, 2012 On the last day of the Supreme Court’s term for this year, everybody in Washington DC knew that its ruling would be announced on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as the national health care reform law is officially known. So an hour before the Supreme Court [...] |
Occupy May Day 2012photographer |
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Facing Change documents May Day Occupy rallies and marches in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Oakland as tens of thousands of people took to the streets. |
A Mother’s Fight Against Childhood Obesityphotographer |
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Sonya Branch-Johnson remembers a visit to her doctor and watched as he wrote “obese” on her chart. It was a wake-up call. One third of Americans are obese, a dramatic increase over the last twenty years. |
Occupy DC Eviction 2012photographer |
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Early Saturday morning in Washington DC, the police raided the OccupyDC encampment in McPherson Square, two blocks from the White House. |
Facing Change: Documenting America 2011photographer |
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This week we present our final update for 2011, a suite of diverse images taken along our journeys this year on the American road. We feel that these photographs speak to the heart of this moment in our country. |
A Future for Homeless Children 2011photographer |
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Homeless families are increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, with profound effects on millions of American children. One in fifty children experiences homelessness in America each year, according to a recent study by the National Center on Family Homelessness. Nearly half of those children are under the age of six – the most vulnerable group of all. |
Occupy Wall Street – the Growing Movement 2011photographer |
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As Occupy Wall Street” grows daily both nationally and internationally authorities’ patience with the protests is wearing thin. The New York movement narrowly avoid a police stand off on Friday morning but this was not the case in Denver. The hard question is what next? |
Occupy Wall Street 2011photographer |
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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”. The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement (particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution) and from the Spanish Indignants. |
Fourth of July by FCDA photographersphotographer |
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n 1775, people in New England began fighting the British for their independence. On July 2, 1776, the Congress secretly voted for independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was first published two days later on July 4, 1776. |
Memorial Day 2011photographer |
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Memorial Day Weekend from Coney Island and Prospect Park, Brooklyn to the thousands of Rolling Thunder Bikers packing the National Mall Facing Change photographers Lucian Perkins and Anthony Suau document the annual holiday. |
Federal Shutdown Avoided 2011photographer |
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After weeks of contentious negotiations between the House and the Senate, a deal was reached to avert a shutdown of the Federal government within an hour of the midnight deadline on Friday April 8. |
Christmas in Central Texas 2010photographer |
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In December, I photographed the many ways that people decorate their lawns, fences and towns to celebrate the Christmas season. For some it’s a Santa Claus and reindeer; for others, it’s a wreath, a “Peace on Earth” sign, or fireworks; for others still, it’s angels or a crèche. All of this offers a hint to [...] |
Obesity, Washington DC 2010photographer |
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My long-term project on obesity begins here in Washington DC, partly because a manipulation in the country’s original laws and institutions has contributed to the epidemic. |
Remote Area Medical Serves a Rural Virginia Community 2010photographer |
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Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, piloted his DC-3 into Wise, Virginia, to lead a free medical clinic supported by hundreds of volunteer doctors, dentist, nurses, students and other health professionals. Nearly 3,000 people showed up for medical needs at the three-day clinic. “I just look at these people and I hurt,” said volunteer [...] |
Crystal’s Strugglephotographer |
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Washington, DC USA 1992 Born with a disease that destroyed her intestines, one-year-old Crystal needed a liver and intestine transplant in order to survive. But the operation would cost at least $500,000 and her insurance would not pay for it. As her mother, Bridgette, and doctors tried to find ways to pay for the operation, [...] |
