Photographic Exhibit: Jan 23-25, Living on The Border,
Reception, Friday January 23, 6:00–7:00pm
Music 7:00–9:00pm
Kick off the conference with your friends and colleagues. Light
hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided. The Eddie Resto
Latin Jazz Quartet will perform a lively mix of salsa and Latin jazz.
Hilton Hotel San Diego/Del Mar
15575 Jimmy Durante Blvd
Del Mar, CA 92014
Press Release promotional photos and interviews are available on request.
Karl has been extensively been covering both sides the American/ Mexican border for the past four years, on horseback, foot and 4x4, alone, interacting with the local environment has given him a very unique and different view of the intense collateral damage of the tightening of the border. As a freelance photographer for many major publications and most recently for the Dutch magazine Nieuwe Revu (similar to our News Week magazine) and the Tucson Weekly, he has compiled a personal collection that has been on tour. This moving exhibit began as a generous collaboration with the Tubac Center for the Arts and its first solo show.
Karl’s video documentary and lectures, Have gained international recognition and are used as teaching aids at several major American universities that have large departments dedicated to international immigration and border studies and the Queens University in Belfast. It is also a permanent inclusion to the New Mexico University Library.
“This project is my gift back to humanity for the life I have experienced as an artist and is a documentation for future generations so they will know what happened here on the border at the turn of this century. When the word unimaginable comes to mind I must ask where we would be without photojournalism and how we could fully understand beyond the government numbers the true horrors of the holocaust”. KWH
Living on the Border is an insight to an area in our country that so few Americans could even imagine exists. Where living day to day requires coexisting along side the anguish and brutality of illegal immigration, were it is commonplace for the presence of armed military units under the sound of patrolling black hawks the stillness of a starry night can be broken at any time by the sounds of unrest
A once peaceful border town, with cattle roaming the main street, a place attractive to artist, free thinkers, and elderly is now being invaded by government occupation, building physical walls, steel barriers, immoveable strong and self-righteous, highly technical surveillance systems, gates and fences, making the illegal trade in people an drug smuggling more desperate and causing them to boldly push back.
The Indypendent, New York
"Karl W. Hoffman has captured the raw moments along the Arizona-Mexico border that challenge the human tendency to draw invisible
lines through the landscape and people's lives. His work is of international significance, from the Sonoran Desert to New York City." Jessica Lee
Yale University Press, London
"Living on the Border is a fascinating physical, social and psychological state".
Robert Baldock, Editor & Managing Director
Photographer's Forum Magazine
Award for Excellence in Photojournalism is granted to Karl W. Hoffman for his photograph of the "Beggar Boy" from the documentary "Living on the Border"
US News and World Report
“your photos are awesome” Stephen Rountree Graphics Director, Published in the June 25th 2007 issue
BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS, London, Honors fine art photographer, Karl W. Hoffman for outstanding achievements in photojournalism, January 3, 2007
Tucson Weekly “As an eyewitness to the continuing tragedies, that's where Hoffman brings his camera”. Margaret Regan
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