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Burnsville Honors Public Safety Personnel with “Homage” Bronze Sculptures at City Hall
Burnsville honors public safety workers with a bronze sculpture, “Homage”, created by Mary Pat Lutz and temporarily installed at City Hall.
Missing Wedding Photographer Found Dead
Visakhapatnam: Potina Sai Vijay, a photographer from Bakkannapalem village within Maduravada police station limits, who had gone missing on February 26 while on his way to a wedding shoot in Ravulapalem of East Godavari district, has been found dead. Police have arrested a suspect in the case.
Sai Vijay’s parents Srinu, an auto driver, and Ramanamma, who runs a store, filed a complaint with police on February 29 after their son’s phone had gone unanswered.
Investigations revealed that the photographer had come in contact with a person named Shanmukh through social media. Shanmukh, on coming to know about Sai Vijay’s high-end cameras worth around ₹15 lakh, convinced the photographer to come to Ravulapalem for a wedding event.
Following this, on February 26, Sai Vijay boarded a bus from Car Shed Junction with his cameras and reached Visakhapatnam railway station. He took a train to Rajahmundry, where he met Shanmukh. They hired a car and drove to Alamuru near Ravulapalem.
Suspecting foul play, Sai Vijay sent a photo of the car he was travelling in to his mother, along with Shanmukh’s phone number, expressing his apprehension about being with unknown people.
Subsequently, Sai Vijay’s phone had been switched off. Shanmukh’s number also turned out to be unreachable.
The photographer’s parents then filed a complaint with PM Palem police, who registered a case and started investigation. They collected evidence and traced Shanmukh as being in Ravulapalem. But when police reached there, he had absconded.
PM Palem inspector told Deccan Chronicle that they lured Shanmukh on Facebook by posing as a girl from Kancharapalem with whom Shanmukh had been in contact. They then arrested him.
Shanmukh’s interrogation revealed that he had killed photographer Sai Vijay in a room that he had hired. He had hidden both the body and the cameras in the room when police lured him out.
Police have arrested Shanmukh and are investigating the case further.
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2 Men Kill Photographer, Steal His Expensive Cameras In Andhra, Arrested
DCP said the police recovered victim’s body and handed it over to his parents. (Representational)
Two persons were arrested for allegedly murdering a photographer and stealing his expensive cameras, police said on Sunday.
According to the police, Shanmukha Teja (19) from Ravulapalem in Konaseema district got in touch with P Sai Vijay Pawankalyan (23), a photographer from Bakkannapalem area of the port city, for an assignment.
Teja informed Pawankalayan that both would work together on the ‘Ravulapalem assignment’ but he was actually planning to steal Pawankalyan’s high-end cameras, estimated to be worth around Rs 15 lakh, Visakhapatnam Police said in a release.
On February 26, Pawankalyan took a train to Rajamahendravaram, where he was picked by Teja in a hired car and proceeded to Alamuru mandal near Ravulapalem.
Police said Pawankalyan sensed that he was in trouble and messaged a picture of the car’s rear view and Teja’s phone number to his mother P Ramanamma, saying that he was with strangers and if his phone didn’t connect she could call Teja.
Ramanamma started worrying when she could not reach Pawankalyan on the phone, prompting her to approach P M Palem police station in Visakhapatnam and lodged a missing case.
Visakhapatnam Zone-1 Deputy Commissioner of Police Manikanta Chandolu told PTI that Teja and his friend Vinod (20) had strangled Pawankalyan to death with a leather belt and buried him on the banks of river Godavari near Alamuru.
When police landed at Teja’s home on March 1 at Mulasthana Agraharam near Alamuru, he was already on the run. However, they questioned Teja’s parents and confirmed the murder and also recovered the cameras hidden in a room in the house.
As Teja went incommunicado, police lured him by making a girl from Kancharapalem, with whom he was friendly, to text him and laid a trap following which Teja and Vinod were arrested.
The DCP said the police recovered Pawankalyan’s body and handed it over to his parents.
Teja and Vinod have been arrested for murder under IPC Section 302, police said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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Mid-Hudson people ‘on the move’ for the week of March 4, 2024
Qiana Mestrich has joined the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Advisory Board.
Mestrich is an interdisciplinary artist, photo historian, writer, and mother of two based in Brooklyn and Saugerties. In 2007, she founded Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History, an arts initiative that aims to diversify the medium’s history by advocating for photographers of color. Mestrich is an adjunct faculty in photography and social media at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) and is represented in New York by sepiaEYE gallery. In 2022, Mestrich was awarded the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories grant for her @WorkingWOC Instagram archive project on women of color in the corporate workplace. Mestrich’s forthcoming book based on past interviews for Dodge and Burn will be published by Routledge.
Mestrich is one of the five artists in the upcoming exhibition, “Counter Histories: Tamara Abdul Hadi, Alan Chin, Naomieh Jovin, Billy H.C. Kwok, Qiana Mestrich,” on view at CPW’s Broadway gallery in Kingston from March 23 to May 26.
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Arts Mid-Hudson welcomes two new board members beginning their first three year term in 2024, Malia K. Du Mont and Caitlinn Mahar-Daniels
Du Mont is currently serving as the Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College. Du Mont has an educational background in Chinese from Bard College and her Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Du Mont is an Army Reserve officer and Afghanistan veteran, and chair of the NY-18 Veterans and Military Families Advisory Board for U.S. Pat Ryan. she has served on several advisory boards, including the American University of Afghanistan and the World Affairs Council Mid-Hudson Valley. Additionally, Du Mont is a longtime choral singer and volunteers as a pianist at her church.
Mahar-Daniels is a SUNY New Paltz alumna and majored in Fine Art Photography with a minor in Art History. She has established herself as a prominent figure in the local and international photography scene, specializing in weddings and embracing the human form with an artistic touch. Beyond her professional endeavors, Mahar-Daniels is an avid hiker, motorcyclist, and traveler.
The new board members were elected at the 2024 annual meeting of Arts Mid-Hudson. In addition to the election of new board members.
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New Mexico Museum of Art Unveils ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exhibit, Encompa…
From vivid road trip memories to tranquil portraits, the New Mexico Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, ‘Ways of Seeing: Four Photography Collections’, spans a rich timeline from 1903 to 2013, featuring works by Gertrude Käsebier and Anthony O’Brien among others. This exhibit, running until June 16, offers a unique insight into the varying tastes and preferences of its collectors, providing a broad spectrum of photography styles for enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Historical to Contemporary: A Photographic Journey
The exhibition showcases an eclectic mix of photography, starting with a 1903 photogravure by Gertrude Käsebier, moving through the color-soaked lenses of mid-century adventures, and culminating with a 2013 pigment print by local talent Anthony O’Brien. This journey through time not only highlights the evolution of photographic techniques but also reflects the changing landscapes and societal norms captured through the eyes of the photographers.
Collector’s Vision: The Personal Touch
What sets ‘Ways of Seeing’ apart is its focus on the personal tastes and preferences of the collectors who have promised these works to the museum. This approach provides visitors with a unique perspective on art collection and the stories that individual pieces can tell. The exhibition thus becomes a narrative not just of the artists and their works, but also of the individuals who felt compelled to preserve and share these visual stories.
Implications and Future Directions
The ‘Ways of Seeing’ exhibit is more than a retrospective; it’s a dialogue between the past and the present, inviting viewers to reflect on the role of photography in shaping our understanding of the world. As the exhibit runs its course, it’s poised to inspire both seasoned photographers and newcomers to the art form, potentially influencing future trends in both creation and collection. The New Mexico Museum of Art, through this exhibition, reinforces its commitment to celebrating photographic art and its impact on society.
Grabbing moments: ‘Ways of Seeing’ showcases a gamut of photography styles through four collections
MIA exhibit explores work of Gordon Parks, who started his photography career in Twin Cities
MINNEAPOLIS — A new exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art features work from a photographer that started his career in the Twin Cities back in the 1930s.
It’s called American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson. Many will recognize the title photo, a portrait of Watson standing in front of an American flag with a broom and mop.
National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection); © The Gordon Parks Foundation
“I want them to understand, too, the very special alchemy that happens when a Black photographer enters into Black homes and Black lives and tells the story from a place of deep experience and empathy and knowing,” MIA Curator of Photography and New Media Casey Riley said.
Riley was the curator behind the series. She also is the Chair of Global Contemporary Art at MIA. She wants those walking through vibrantly painted walls to see and feel everything.
In a series of nearly 60 photos, Parks captures Watson in different landscapes of her life: her job as a government custodial worker, a mother and a deaconess at her church.
“What I hope people take away from this is that everybody’s work, everybody’s contributions matters and that from the kind of organization and labor that we do every day we can build something profound and change society for the better,” Riley said.
MIA visitors Malik Mitchell and Azania Tripp were touched by Watson’s humanity captured on film.
“I feel like that’s really important, especially for workers that tend to be very invisible and made invisible, but that their labor is very important to how we function in society and make us be able to work very efficiently,” Mitchell said.
As a social worker, and artist herself, Tripp sees how her story plays into present day society.
“I think just the importance of giving people space to share their experience, and that it’s valid and that what is happening to you is real,” she said. “Because it feels very minimizing when you’re navigating racism.”
American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson runs at the MIA until June 23.
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