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Exhibits

Cuba Reflections: A Photographic Journey
Photographs by Nestor Hernandez

Lycoming College (February 24 - March 31, 2005)
Snowden Library Gallery
Williamsport, Pennsylvania

"Cuba Reflections" was on display as part of the college's 2005 Symposium, "Americanos: Latino Life in the United States."

Mali, Through the Mist of Time:
Photographs by Malian and American Photographers

International Visions Gallery (December 6, 2005 - January 10, 2006)
2629 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008

This exhibit explored the West African country of Mali with photographs by Malian photographers Alioune Bâ and Amadou Sow, and American photographers Nestor Hernández, Shawn Davis and Sora Devore. These five photographers worked together teaching photography to Malian youth in the "Visual Griots" project.

Our Children, Our World:
Photographs by Children from Washington, DC, Gary, Indiana,
Accra, Ghana and Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Children's National Medical Center (September 22, 2005 - January, 7, 2006)
The Gallery
111 Michigan Avenue, NW.
Washington, D.C. USA

Gary Public Library (on exhibit from July - October, 2006)
Main Library Art Gallery
220 W 5th Ave
Gary, Indiana

Youth Photography Projects

Calidoscopio Cubano: An Exhibit of Photos and Art by Cuban Children was to be on display in July 2006 at the Foteteca de Cuba gallery in Havana Cuba. Because of the current restrictions on travel to Cuba, the exhibit was postponed.

The Kodak company gave Nestor film and photographic paper for the project, and has set up a fantastic Web Site featuring the 2003 workshop.

Visual Griots: A Photography Workshop for Children in Tominian, Mali
Nestor led another youth photography project, this time with young people in Mali. West Africa. more info