Mississippi Images: An Exhibit for Katrina Hurricane Relief December 9, 2005

MISSISSIPPI IMAGES
Recent photographs by Michael A. Lang
An Exhibit for Katrina Hurricane Relief

In THE Annex at Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 202-347-2787
December 7, 2005 - January 8, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, 2005, 6-8:30 PM
3rd Thursday Gallery Walk: December 15, 6-8 PM
Proceeds benefit:

The Mississippi Center for Justice www.mscenterforjustice.org and

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law www.lawyerscommittee.org
Michael Lang presents a series of ?street images? recorded during several trips to Mississippi while helping to document the work of the Mississippi Center for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, along with the Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, that provides legal advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged and low-income people and communities. This exhibit features three aspects of Mississippi life: 1) post hurricane images of East Biloxi and Ocean Springs, 2) images related to the long term projects that the MCJ has been involved with ? elderly and disabled people denied Medicaid benefits, juveniles caught up in the path from school house to jail house, local and immigrant poultry workers, etc. - and now the post- hurricane legal problems that people face such as evictions, insurance claims and mortgage liability, 3) a portrait of the Farish Street core of historic Black Jackson - Peaches Café and decayed housing, some with people living there, hoping for the promised restoration.