Unshared Sacrifice: Photography By Monica Haller & Teri Fullerton

The exhibit runs October 14 - December 3, 2011 at IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, 2446 University Ave. West, Suite 100, St. Paul. The opening will feature screenings of Deacon Warner's short documentary about Veterans for Peace, Peaceful Warriors, at 6:30 and Eric Howell's award-winning short film about children in war, Ana's Playground, at 7:30. 

In 2002 Simon Norfolk, a photographer and scholar of war said we are entering a period of constant, low intensity war made possible by the fact that the vast majority of people will not be involved in the sacrifice, hence the protest to disengage will not happen as with Vietnam. The opening date of this show coincides with the beginning of 10 years of war in Afghanistan. Unshared Sacrifice presents the stories of those few who are called upon to conduct the business of war.

A panel discussion with the artists will be held at IFP on November 30 at 7:00 pm. 

The Veterans Book Project is a growing library of books authored collaboratively between Monica Haller and veterans, family members, Iraqis, journalists and others with intimate first-hand experiences of the current American wars. All 27 of the books ("objects for deployment") will be in the reading room. Author and designer Philip Studer has created an installation derived from the books for the exhibition.

Teri Fullerton in her enigmatic portrait series titled Falling in Love at the End of the Universe tells the stories of families who have a member deployed. Of this she says, "like the still photograph, these families are on hold.  They, the family members, stand in as witnesses for the traces, the dust, the ash, the scent of what's been lost and what's been endured and what is still happening."