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About. I am a multimedia documentary artist who returned to visual expression after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. My work explores the performance of power and citizenship, illuminating invisible systems through still and moving images, sound, testimony, and archival material.
BY Lyle Rexer, September 2, 2023. Debi Cornwall is a different kind of witness for a media age in which photography is in danger of losing its capacity to make us feel and think. She has evolved from photojournalist to civil-rights attorney to new-style documentarian and, in the process, has perfected an approach that encourages us to question ...
Nov 6, 2017 · Kiddie Pool Debi Cornwall. American documentary photographer Debi Cornwall approached her latest subject, U.S. Naval Station Gauntánamo Bay, with one question. What does it look like in a...
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Feb 15, 2022 · Her work is on view as part of the ongoing photo festival in Sharjah. Debi Cornwall's project on Guantanamo Bay comprises three photo series, which are all on show at the Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah. All photos: Debi Cornwall. Guantanamo Bay is a nowhere place. Situated on a naval base on the coast of Cuba, it is most ...
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Mar 19, 2017 · About Debi Cornwall Debi Cornwall is a conceptual documentary artist who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a twelve-year career as a civil rights lawyer. She is a 2016 nominee for the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, winner of the Duke University Collection Award for Women Documentarians, and an alumna of Brown ...
Aug 28, 2023 · Debi Cornwall (US, 1973), winner of the Prix Elysée 2023, one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world, presents Model Citizens. In this series, which is still in progress, she explores how staging, performance and role-playing feed into the idea of citizenship in our Western societies.
