A VASA exhibition by
Bruce Jackson

© Bruce Jackson

Exhibition Curator: Roberto Muffoletto

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VASA is presenting the work of Bruce Jackson, an American photographer.  Bruce’s photographic, filmic, and written work over the last 60 years provides windows into prisons (notably Death Row and Killing Time, interactions with poets and creative writers, inquiries into folklore, and other social texts. His films with Diane Christian include Death Row,which is archived on VASA’s platform for viewing (https://vasa-project.com/video/jackson/).  His contributions to the fields of visual anthropology, visual sociology and the humanities is vast and consistent.  

 El Paso is located on the border between Mexico and the United States. It is an entry point to a different life, and a scene of contention and struggle to maintain a culture and history of the people. In his VASA exhibition “El Paso,” Jackson brings to us walls that (in his words) “feel embedded” rather than applied.  The murals are grounded in a history of humanity’s struggles and pride.  They exist in the context of Trump’s Wall, populations fleeing a dangerous and threatened existence and the increased threat of cartels and the American border police. They remind us of time and a collective memory.

To read these images, as Jackson suggests, is not see them as “applied” but as “embedded”.

Note: Bruce Jackson is the editor of a theme for the VASA Journal on images and culture (VJIC) titled "Thoughts On Photography"

>>The Bruce Jackson's exhibition may be accessed through the menu on the left.

© Bruce Jackson

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA, since 2008, has provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko and "Why??" curated by Sandeep Biswas.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.