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Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President

Name: Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President
Start: 2025-09-08T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-15T10:00:00+00:00
Location: RISE, 58-03 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Far Rockaway, NY 11692

: Sept. 8 – 15, 10 am – 6 pm, except Sept. 13 and 14

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718–327–5919

Marina Berio’s Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President is an indictment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, in the form of an artist’s letter addressed to him six feet under at his final resting place in Hyde Park. Each lesson addresses a different aspect of the photographic record, and its efficacy or failure at relating the truth of the incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

This event is made possible in part with public funds from Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.