LIBYA
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Centered around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, the book Libyan Sugar is a road trip through a war zone, detailed through phone camera photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family and colleagues. A record of Michael Christopher Brown’s life both inside and outside Libya during that year, the book is about a young man going to war for the first time and his experience of that age-old desire to get as close as possible to a conflict in order to discover something about war and something about himself—perhaps a certain definition of life and death. A sample of images from the book, caption information coming soon.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGERY BELOW
FILM - ICP INFINITY AWARD
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Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards. The awards ceremony is also ICP’s primary fundraising benefit, with its revenues assisting the center's various programs.
This year’s winner for Artist’s Book is Michael Christopher Brown, a photojournalist who documented the revolution and its aftermath in Libya. His groundbreaking book, Libyan Sugar, serves as a record for Michael’s time in Libya, in which he documents both the tragedies and triumphs of revolution; and the ways that it transformed a young photojournalist struggling to find his voice.
FILM - LIBYAN SUGAR
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A diary of moving imagery, Libyan Sugar follows the journeys of MCB living between China, Libya and his home in the United States.
In China, he leaves on a road trip in search of an experience. In 2011 he spend most of the year in Libya to witness the Arab Spring and Libyan Revolution. While covering the conflict, he sees hundreds of dead bodies and experiences multiple personal injuries, ambushes, a kidnapping, friends and fixers killed in front of him all within a year.
The installation details the outer and inner experience, the destinations and motivations of a man going to war for the first time. It reveals the anatomy of contemporary war coverage and the physical and emotional toll that it takes on storytellers and their communities.
The mixed media installation incorporates video, images, sound and artifacts.
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