“Home and Homeless” Tales of the Same City Photographs by Bonita Lei
Please join the Highlawn Library as we present photography exhibit entitled:“Home and Homeless: Tales of the Same City” featuring the photography of Bonita Lei who has spent three decades documenting lives in New York City. "It is often difficult for New Yorkers with comfortable lives to remember, or even imagine there is a vast majority of fellow residents whose daily lives are full of danger, disappointments and hopelessness." Bonita Lei comments, "My work does not offer solutions to better this world. But as long as I am alive, I hope to make all of us see the things we have and have not."
On exhibit: November 8, 2021 – February 5, 2022 at the Highlawn Library, 1664 W 13th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223
Visit the Highlawn Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/HighlawnLibrary
for an interview about the exhibit. This will be posted shortly after editing is finished.
About the artist: Bonita Lei is a photojournalist, writer and art curator for over thirty years. Born in Hong Kong, she recieved a BFA and an MFA (photography and printmaking) from the Art Institute of San Francisco, and MA (in art history) from the University of California, Berkley and a PH.D. (art history) from New York University. Bonita was the director of the Great Modern Prints, a gallery that specialized in 19th century lithographs and contemporary photography.
Please join the Highlawn Library as we present photography exhibit entitled:“Home and Homeless: Tales of the Same City” featuring the photography of Bonita Lei who has spent three decades documenting lives in New York City. "It is often difficult for New Yorkers with comfortable lives to remember, or even imagine there is a vast majority of fellow residents whose daily lives are full of danger, disappointments and hopelessness." Bonita Lei comments, "My work does not offer solutions to better this world. But as long as I am alive, I hope to make all of us see the things we have and have not."
On exhibit: November 8, 2021 – February 5, 2022 at the Highlawn Library, 1664 W 13th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223
Visit the Highlawn Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/HighlawnLibrary
for an interview about the exhibit. This will be posted shortly after editing is finished.