Part I: Winter. Part II: Ties. Part III: Spring
Credits
Choreography, Concept: Dagmar Spain. Camera: Alexis Gibson and Dagmar Spain. Original Music: Fernando Otero and Adrienne Ramm. Aria: Rusalka "Měsicku" by Dvořák (singer: Leandra Ramm). Dancers: Maxine Steinman and Dagmar Spain.
Audism Monologues/Dialogues is a photography installation and documentary series I conceived, shot and constructed. Audism Monologues is a play written and produced within the Deaf community in Washington, DC and modelled after Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues; directed by Alison Aubrecht and produced by LightKitchen. I followed the entire process with my camera, from auditions through final performances, then invited the participants to engage in a dialogue with me by sitting for portraits and responding to a set list of questions.
Paradise Found
One of the signature images from the documentary photo series I shot in Sarajevo March-August 1997. The series evolved into the film 888 days x 2 when I realized that still images alone were incapable of conveying the message.
Dedication
For Rade and Zdravka Jevtic and the entire cast behind Radio Zid Sarajevo, who made it the inspiration that it was.