Alan Pogue
(United States)
Sad Woman of Basra, Iraq, July 1998
Selenium Toned Silver Gelatin Print, Printed by Artist

$300 SOLD

Signed on front

The print was given to FotoFest by the artist in 2005.

Alan Pogue is a long-time documentary photographer whose politically committed work reaches from farm workers in south Texas to Iraq and the Palestinian Territories.  In 1968, when he came home from his tour of duty as a battlefield medic in Vietnam, Pogue began using photography to look into the possibility of cultural healing. Pogue's first large body of work emerged from living and marching with Texas migrant farm workers as they struggled for better working conditions. Some of those images were widely circulated as posters and became movement icons.  His photos have appeared in many national and international publications including the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, The Austin American Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, Kyodo News and Asahi Shimbun in Japan, and Texas Monthly. He has also served as staff photographer for the Texas Observer since 1971.  Pogue made several trips to Iraq with Veterans For Peace and he helped found the Austin, Texas chapter of a campaign to repair water treatment facilities and raise international awareness of the suffering caused by U.S./U.N. sanctions. An exhibit of his Iraq work has circulated nationally.  He was commissioned by a Japanese peace group to travel to Peshawar, Pakistan to document conditions among refugees displaced by the Afghanistan war.