Exhibition dates: November 22 - December 31, 2011.

Opening Reception: November 25, 2011, from 6pm-10pm. The artist will be in attendance.

Artist statement:

There are over 200 independent countries of the world with an estimated 6800 different spoken languages, creating many language barriers, lost translations and hand signals. However within this mass of confusion, pictures and photography can still be universally understood. Pictures can speak a thousand words to a thousand different people. This global understanding has been the main reason that I have been documenting various cultures around the world. Over the past 15 years I have concentrated on photographing people and their various ways of life that seem to have been left behind by the world’s rush to modernize. Certain aspects of these various cultures seem to be in a time warp, many within their own country. The photographs presented in this show are part of a long-term project photographing some of these people that live and work in challenging environments that time seems to have forgotten and whose way of life may never be seen again. Maynard Switzer