High and Dry VIII
One hundred and forty–one photographers from across the United States and Canada submitted a total of 499 images to High and Dry: A Photographic Exhibition of Peoples and Places of the World’s Dry Lands. Now in its eighth year, the annual juried photo competition at Texas Tech University’s International Cultural Center is sponsored by The CH Foundation as well as by Texas Tech’s Office of International Affairs (OIA) and International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies (ICASALS). This year’s juror was D. Clarke Evans, President of the Texas Photographic Society. Subjects in the eighty-image exhibition range from the desert oases of Egypt to workers in China’s semiarid cotton-growing region to the people, animals, and landscapes of the American Southwest. The exhibition will be on view at Texas Tech’s International Cultural Center, 601 Indiana, from November 21 through January 15, 2009 (M-F, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.—closed during TTU holidays). The opening reception will take place at the International Cultural Center on December 5 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. During the reception, internationally-known photographer and educator Keith Carter will give a talk in the auditorium at 6:00 p.m., after which he will sign copies of his latest book, A Certain Alchemy (TTU Press). For more information, call (806) 742-2974.
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