On the occasion of the exhibition “Welcome to Camp America”, Debi Cornwall will present her new book in exclusivity and sign it in Café Babel.
In collaboration with the Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva (FIFDH).
Saturday March 18 – 4 to 5:30 pm
Café Babel – Central venue of FIFDH
Espace Pitoëff
Rue de Carouge 52
The FIFDH and the CPG are glad to present in exclusivity Debi Cornwall's new book "Welcome to Camp America" (release in Fall 2017). The book juxtaposes photographs with once-classified archival material and first-person texts, provoke questions about compromises made in the West between our humanity and our fears in the "War on Terror" era.
A selection of prints will be presented during the Festival in its central venue "Café Babel".
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Debi Cornwall is a visual artist working in conceptual documentary photography, who returned to creative expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Her values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as her background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform her visual work. Her series marry empathy and dark humor with structural critique.
She trained in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) while completing a Bachelor’s d [...]
Debi Cornwall is a visual artist working in conceptual documentary photography, who returned to creative expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Her values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as her background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform her visual work. Her series marry empathy and dark humor with structural critique.
She trained in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) while completing a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. After working for photographers Mary Ellen Mark and Sylvia Plachy, as an AP stringer, and as an investigator for the federal public defender’s office, she attended Harvard Law School and practiced for more than a decade as a civil rights attorney.