Voices of the Immigrant Experience – Dennis Chamberlin
Thursday, 23 Apr 2009 at 12:00 pm – Multicultural Center, Memorial Union
Dennis Chamberlin will show and discuss images from Marshalltown, Iowa, that were taken as part of the “Voices of the Immigrant Experience” project, a combination of portraits and audio recordings in which people tell their stories about being immigrants in Iowa. Chamberlin has been on the faculty in the Iowa State Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication since 2005, when he received his MFA in photography from Indiana University. He has been a staff photographer for the Denver Post and done work for such publications as National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and Time. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 as a member of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel editorial staff for the paper’s flood coverage. Part of the Latinos in Iowa Series.Cosponsored By:
- Sociology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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