YMCA’s new Oval Gallery, Newton
West Suburban YMCA, 276 Church St., Newton, MA
July 8, 2014 – March 31, 2015
Public opening reception – Friday September 12th
Curated by John Quatrale »
Unbound Visual Arts, Inc., Nurturing Minds, Inc. Northeast Chapter and the West Suburban YMCA, Inc. in Newton are pleased to present the opening of Educating the SEGA Girls of Tanzania. This exhibition was previously on exhibition at the Athan’s Café Art Gallery in Brighton, MA.
This exhibition features photographs by Warren Zelman portraying academic and social life at the Sega Girls School, a secondary boarding school in Tanzania for vulnerable girls. The photographs capture the serious and joyful times in and out of the classroom where friendships, bodies and minds are developed. Warren’s black and white and color photographs vividly reflect the realities of growing up in Tanzania. The acronym SEGA stands for Secondary Education for Girls Advancement.
Warren Zelman is a Montreal-based photographer who traveled to the SEGA school in 2011. He does a wide range of advertising, corporate, editorial and documentary photography. He was born and raised in Montreal and studied Commercial Photography at Dawson College. The photographs in the exhibition are part of a larger series which included the girls’ school portraits and class photos. The photos of laughing girls won the Applied Arts magazine 2012 First Place Award for Pro-Bono Series. Based on the entire group of photos, Warren was also awarded a 2013 Photography Fellowship in Africa by Management Sciences for Health and SocialDocumentary.net.
His Facebook page is www.facebook.com/warrenzelmanphotography.