I Witness

Herat, Afghanistan - Masooma, 18, has severe burns on 70 percent of her body from self-immolation. Forced marriages, domestic violence, 
poverty and lack of access to education are some of the main reasons for women to attempt suicide.    
Photo by Paula Bronstein, Getty Images.

Twenty-five internationally celebrated photojournalists have contributed 50 fine-art images, captured during the historical events worldwide, for I Witness, an exhibition at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery at 3550 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida on March 10, 2012 from 2 to 9 p.m.

I Witness explores conflict through the images of these artists, whose work reflects personal, internal, psychosocial, military, cultural or religious experiences, while maintaining the truthful and ethical principles of journalism.

I Witness - Curated by Photojournalist Carl Juste

In this spirit, I Witness – curated by photojournalist Carl Juste and gallerist Bernice Steinbaum – hopes to engage the international art community with images that merge aesthetic principles of composition, texture and color, with elements of photojournalism, like timeliness, objectivity and narration. This exhibition seeks to underwrite the work of artists who are photojournalists and to support the value of freedom of the press and open government.

General Collin Powell with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office by Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

Exhibited Photojournalists Include:

Lynsey Addario

Kursat Bayhan

Paula Bronstein

Jahi Chikwendiu

Michael Chavez

André Chung

Alan Diaz

Hector Emanuel

Colin Finlay

Bill Frakes

C.M. Guerrero

Andrew Innerarity

Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Lichtensten

Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Saikat Mojumder

Tom Pennington

Roger M. Richards

Jeffery A. Salter

Maggie Steber

Les Stone

Charles Trainor, Jr.

Shehab Uddin

Nuri Vallbona

Radio interview with Carl Juste and Bernice Steinbaum as they chat with WLRN-Miami Herald anchor Christine DiMattei about the I Witness show.
http://blog.wlrn.org/index.php/2012/03/miami-gallery-treats-photojournalism-as-fine-art/