The Media Gallery publishes catalogue for Darren Ell’s Haiti: Holdup.

The Media Gallery publishes catalogue for Darren Ell’s Haiti: Holdup.

The Media Gallery in the Department of Communication Studies is proud to announce the publication of Haiti: Holdup, a catalogue for Darren Ell’s 2010 exhibition, curated by Rae Staseson. Ell is an artist, activist and journalist and he produces photographic work dedicated to human rights and social justice issues. Ell’s commitment to the responsibility of bearing witness and using art as a tool for social transformation is evident in this provocative publication. In Ell’s words “Since all of my projects focus on victimized groups of people, I involve myself in their struggle as an artist-citizen.” Darren Ell works primarily in portraiture and documentary reportage. The documentary project as shown in the catalogue explores the development of a social program in Haiti. His documentary coverage of the impact of the 2004 coup d’état in Haiti was published in a full online dossier with the National Film Board of Canada’s CitizenShift and with the Haiti Information Project, where it was the winner of a 2008 Project Censored Award for its coverage of one of the most important under-reported stories in the world. His stories on Haiti were picked up by independent news sites around the world, including Rabble.ca, Global Policy Forum, Pacific Free Press, Open Salon and many others.

Haiti: Holdup, the catalogue, is edited by Rae Staseson and includes essays by Dr. Lisa Lynch and Dr. Joseph Rosen.