HOLDERNESS, N.H. – Holderness School is hosting “Verses from a Nation in Transition: Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj” beginning on January 24. Mr. Sywenkyj, a two-time Fulbright scholar and recipient of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, is an American photographer of Ukrainian descent.
He specializes in documentary, reportage, portraiture and travel photography. Twenty years ago, he began working in Ukraine, the nation of his ancestors.
The exhibit at Holderness School features approximately 50 photographs from three of Mr. Sywenkyj’s long-term projects from Ukraine. For two decades, he focused his lens on health issues related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and war trauma.
“Verses from a Nation in Transition” will be the first Edwards Art Gallery exhibit to feature virtual reality, allowing visitors to experience moments of the Euro-Maidan Revolution as if they were there.
The exhibit opened will run through April 18. Normal operating hours are 9 am.-5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 9 a.m.-noon on Wednesday and Saturday. The exhibit is closed on Sundays, as well as February 10-11 and March 20-April 1.
Holderness School is an independent boarding high school committed to academics, adventure and athletics in the White Mountains (www.holderness.org).