Amy Toensing @ Glen Echo Photoworks

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Amy Toensing @ Glen Echo Photoworks

March 12th, 2020 by fstop

VRINDAVAN, INDIA – MARCH 21, 2016: Widows from ashrams around Vrindavan play with color during a Holi celebration event at the Gopinath Temple. The event was organized by Sulabh International, which has been striving to bring widows back to society’s mainstream – traditionally, it is taboo for widows to celebrate holidays. — Photo by Amy Toensing

Two Stories: Photographs by Amy Toensing
until April 26

Opening is on March 27, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m

“Two Stories” will include 25 photographs selected from two documentary projects in Toensing’s extensive portfolio of work, which has been widely published. In “A World of Widows,” a collaboration with writer Cynthia Gorney and videographer Kathryn Carlson, Toensing reports on the extreme hardships facing widows in many parts of the world, where a husband’s death may plunge a woman into circumstances of poverty, powerlessness and abuse. Of the subjects in these photographs, Toensing has said: “The widows themselves are their own eloquent biographers — as are the local social workers, lawyers and charity organizations helping these women find a stronger voice and perhaps a more joyful life.”

Glen Echo Photoworks. 7300 MacArthur Blvd Glen Echo, MD

Location: Maryland, United States Type: Exhibition

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