Hamilton Library hosts Australian Exhibition of Wartime Photos of South Pacific

February 1, 2007-February 28, 2007
Location: Bridge Gallery

"Paradise Lost and Saved: Wartime Photographs of the South Pacific," an exhibition documenting American WWII and contemporary Australian involvement in the South Pacific.

Opens February 5, 2007 runs through February 27, 2007 on the UH Manoa Campus, Hamilton Library Bridge Gallery, 1st Floor

Dr. Prudence Ahrens, art historian from the University of Queensland, curated the first of this two-part exhibit: Tour of Paradise: An American Soldier in the South Pacific, which features the work of Corporal Elmer J. Williams, an American assigned to New Caledonia in World War II. Tour lends historical depth to the combined exhibition, and the "tourist" nature of his photos strikingly contrasts the contemporary photos by Australian photographers. Dr. Ahrens will be on hand to open the exhibit, and lecture.

Australian photographers Ben Bohane and Jon Lewis captured recent crises in East Timor, the Solomon Islands, and Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea for the second portion of the exhibit, Contemporary Photographs of the South Pacific.

Ben Bohane, former editor of Pacific Weekly and a freelance journalist has been featured TIME, Asiaweek, The Guardian (UK), the Bulletin and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Jon Lewis first exhibited in 1974, was a member of Sydney's "Yellow House" in the early 70's, and started Greenpeace Australia.

Courtesy Australian Consulate General, sponsored by JetStar Airlines and Outrigger Hotels & Resorts.

Admission is free and open to the public. Campus parking $3.

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