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In late 1979, Essex County Newspapers ran a full-page article on a young woman named Roberta (Robey) Benson, a photography student at Goddard College who was working on a photo essay towards her degree.
Benson had a desire to “find out more about fishing and fishermen, especially what makes them keep on going out, day after day after day, despite the constant danger, the drudgery and the high cost of maintaining a boat.” That desire led Benson to Gloucester in the summer of 1979 in search of a fishing vessel to take her out to sea so she could capture and document what a day’s work entailed.
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Bag of Tears The other creation, Bag of Tears, appears to the casual glance like a lady s purse with strands of clear plastic spilling out of it. The object loses its innocence with a closer look. Using a transfer technique, Gabriel imprinted the tea-dyed muslin purse with photographs that are dark in every sense of the word: images from the Holocaust and other 20th-century genocides. Gallery text explains that Gabriel was descended from European Jews and grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y. She claimed to have a complex relationship with her faith and cultural identity.
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Since the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, thousands of acts of anti-Asian hate incidents have been reported throughout the United States alone. Acts of physical violence and racism on Asians and people of Asian descent have spread globally as the virus itself spreads. These incidents connect to a long history of anti-Asian racism that has been supported by laws, institutions and representations, along with a long history of resistance by Asian Americans in solidarity with other communities of color.
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