Award-winning photographer René Clement to visit Dordt

Liberty ©2015 René Clement
Photomontage/collage

New York City-based and award-winning freelance photographer René Clement is giving a presentation and showcasing some of his work in the Ribbens Academic Complex Classroom Building  at Dordt College this semester. The public is invited to attend the presentation on Wednesday, September 28, at 3:30 p.m. in SB 1641 in the Science Building.

One of Clement’s current fine art photographic projects is called “Seasoned”, which is making complex montages of trees and the atmosphere created from in NYC environs. Another intricate and highly imaginative montage/collage project are called “Timescapes” and “4Sight”. Recent editorial photographic projects feature Egypt, Guantanamo Bay Prison, and Syrian refugees at the Health Care Center of Amel Association in Tyre, South Lebanon.

His honors include Zilveren Camera awards for Foreign Documentary and News Pictures, and publication in Time Magazine’s Pictures of the Year in 2003. He has published seven books of photography including Promising Land (Land vol Beloften in Dutch) about Dutch Americans living in Iowa.

Clement will be on campus as a visiting artist. The Dordt community is invited to view Rene Clement’s photographs before and after the public presentation. The photos will remain on display throughout the semester.

Read More......

“After Sandy” a photographic essay by René Clement is on display at Dordt College

Nov 1, 2012, New York—After hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United States. High winds and spring tide devastated the coastal community Breezy Point on Jamaica Bay, Queens. In addition to the flooding a huge fire broke out and destroyed 110 houses. Image and text © 2012 René Clement — all rights reserved

Currently on display at Dordt College in Sioux Center Iowa is a photo essay by New York based photographer and Dutch photo journalist René Clement. The show, which comprises 26 images of the terribly destructive effects of hurricane Sandy is on view in the Ribbens Academic Complex (Classroom Building).



Nov 12, 2012, Staten Island, New York—After hurricane Sandy. The top of a house drifted onto a neighbor's property. Images and text © 2012 René Clement — all rights reserved



A photo essay by René Clement titled “After Sandy” is on view in the main lobby of the Ribbens Academic Complex at Dordt College.

Read More......

Commemorating the Freedom Rides

We’re posting this piece as a tribute to the Fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Rides of 1961. The “Freedom Rides” were an important part of the non-violent protest against racial segregation; many of the Freedom Riders were college students.

Illustrated is a digital capture of the abbreviated version of “I Wonder Why…” —a photographic essay by Shirley Carter Burden, which appeared in Reader's Digest in February 1964. From a private collection. © 1964 Reader’s Digest, all rights reserved.

Not surprisingly Mr. Burden received several letters from very offended reader’s criticizing the piece. As Jeffery Dallas Parisi writes: “All letters of this sort were from prejudiced and racist readers across the country and their content is quite shocking and gives clear evidence of the extremely prejudiced sentiments people harbored during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.” [1]

1. Parisi, Jeffery Dallas. “Shirley Carter Burden Papers, 1947-1989.” The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library, Mar. 1993. Web. 15 May 2011.

Following the introductory title page (shown above) the essay begins as follows:

Read More......