Barbara Trachtenberg: July 2012

7.04.2012

Boston City Hall Exhibit, Photographs and Poetry JULY 9—AUGUST 30, 2012

Here are three photographs from my recent visit from Boston to Morocco. I have taught, met and interviewed Moroccans in our own multicultural city—students, salespeople, bank employees, waiters who are open and culturally rich—expatriates and long-time residents, and newcomers. I recognized the Moroccan character of tolerance a few years ago when I attended a Boston area Mimounah—a Moroccan post-Passover celebration with music, food and friendship between Moslems and Jews. I've read there are at least 23,0000 Moroccans in Boston.

Woman Baking Bread, Morocco, 2012

Brothers, Marrakech, 2012

Friends, Morocco, 2012

Newton Open Studios 2011: On the Streets, Abroad

Juror's Award Newton Open StudiosPhotography, 2011

About

Narration drives Trachtenberg's painting, photographs and writing. She is a mixed media painter, portrait and street photographer and writer who was a writing fellow in her 30s at MacDowell Colony. Her writing has appeared at Boston City Hall and published in Words and Images, Multicultural Review, ArtsEditor, Latin American Anthropology Review, and The NewEnglander magazine. Her earliest writing—a hitchhiker’s travel memoir in early 60s Europe—was pushed by her drive to meet Hungarian relatives who had survived the holocaust. Her work in PEN New England's Prison Writing Program and at Boston’s Writers’ Room is fed by her training as an ethnographer and teacher of handicapped children. Her visual work reflect this story-telling orientation in which her characters are often displaced emotionally or geographically.

Barbara Trachtenberg

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Poetry and Photographs: SEEING

7.04.2012

Boston City Hall Exhibit, Photographs and Poetry JULY 9—AUGUST 30, 2012

Newton Open Studios 2011: On the Streets, Abroad