This link will take you to a slide show of my images from St Louis’ Northside story I did for St Louis Magazine. I was thrilled to have been given this assignment as I felt it really allowed me to ventute into parts of St Louis I had only skirted around. I met wonderful people while cruising through the streets. Although blighted in some areas, I discover generations of community nestled between vacant lots and ruined brick 19th century row houses.

I even came upon the house of my late great grandfathers. It was the abandon building with the address numbers glued to the toilet seat lid….(I think that had been added recently).

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CARNY DOC screens at the acclaimed St Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF). Virginia, cinematographer/collaborator on CARNY will be on hand for Q and A post screening.

date: November 22nd time: 3:30 pm theater: Tivoli Theater

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Virginia will discuss her work, ‘CARNY:Americana on the Midway’ and ‘Views from a Box Car: Freight Train hopping across America‘ at Photo Midwest.

Virginia has been invited to show work and talk about  her methods of immersion into the lives of carnival workers and train hoppers as part of her photography at the Chazen Museum for Photo Midwest.

date: October 9th time: 7pm location: Chazen Museum more info: http://photomidwest2008.org

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CARNY Doc receives BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Brooklyn International Film Festival June 2008
CARNY Doc has been screening in the following festivals
True/False (3 sold out screenings), Hot Docs (3 sold out screenings), and BIFF.

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CARNY:Americana on the Midway (the book which inspired the documentary), won a Bronze Medal in the POP CULTURE category at the 2008 Independent Book Publisher’s AWARDS(to be shared with good friend Isis Acquarian in her memoir ‘The Source Family’. Hooray for New Age Hippies and Carnies (whom maybe never to be in same category ever again!)

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CARNY: Americana on the Midway images will be on exhibition at Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front Street, Ste 208, DUMBO, Brooklyn , NY from July 3rd to August 14th with opening reception July 10th. Hours- 12 to 5pm, M-F.