On Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Chris Ayzoukian [pronounced uh-ZOOK-ee-an] and Karen De Benedetti of the Reser Center in Beaverton about the exhibit “Exposed Transmissions: A Photographic memoir from Issam Abdallah’s lens,” about the work of Reuters’s Middle East photojournalist Issam Abdallah, who was killed in 2023.
They talk about how Abdallah captured human emotions in places of hardship, such as Ukraine, Türkiye after the 2023 earthquake and his hometown Beirut after the 2020 port explosion, his eye for color and shadow, and his love of pets.
From the press release:
https://thereser.org/gallery/exposed-transmissions/
August 02 – 17, 2024
Issam Abdallah was a remarkable visuals journalist with a gift of capturing a person’s soul in a single image. From reporting on the war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, or the protests in Egypt and his native Lebanon, Issam told powerful visual stories of people’s pain and strength, sometimes being the first on the scene to break or transmit the news for the world to see. Leading every day with courage and compassion, Issam carried a camera wherever he went, becoming the eyes and ears of the world at that moment. His images in Exposed Transmissions depict stories of resistance and struggle, beauty and resilience, while offering the opportunity to come together as a community to share a sense of the world in which we all live.
Photo by: REUTERS / Ueslei Marcelino
Please note the exhibition Exposed Transmissions is located next door to The Reser at 12695 SW Crescent St. Ste. 120, Beaverton, OR 97005
This show was recorded on an iPhone 14 on Aug 7, 2024 and edited by Joseph Gallivan.
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Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune and for Axios Portland.
He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com