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		<title>Advance Copies of A Girl and Her Room Have Arrived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce the arrival of advance copies of A Girl and Her Room. This intimate look at girls from two contrasting places, the United States and Lebanon, is revealed through Rania Matar&#8217;s vivid images and complimented with compelling essays by Anne Tucker and Susan Minot. This book has come to life&#8211;and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Card Stories Featured on CNN&#8217;s In America Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN posts an impassioned interview with author Saundra Amrhein about her experience meeting, and writing about, immigrants for the newly released Green Card Stories. When asked what the narratives from the book convey about the character of people immigrating to America, and about America itself, Saundra notes: &#8220;About the immigrants themselves, it requires a phenomenal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lori Waselchuk&#8217;s Grace Before Dying in Daylight Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daylight magazine features Grace Before Dying with a video feature on their website. Lori Waselchuk discusses her work with the hospice program at Angola prison in Louisiana, accompanied by the portfolio of her photographs. Grace Before Dying, published June 2011 and currently on exhibition at our Gallery, follows the heart-wrenching transformation of one of the most dangerous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/lori-waselchuks-grace-before-dying-in-daylight-magazine/</link>
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		<title>KYOPO Featured on La Lettre de la Photographie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CYJO was recently invited to explore the ideas from KYOPO for La Lettre de la Photographie. She writes &#8221;The project allows the viewer to determine how much a culture or personality can be registered from an individual portrait, their stance or their muscle gestures. Does an individual portrait contain a different message than from a collective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/kyopo-featured-on-la-lettre-de-la-photographie/</link>
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		<title>Green Card Stories on the Leonard Lopate Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, WNYC&#8217;s Leonard Lopate spoke to Green Card Stories author and immigration lawyer Stephen Yale-Loehr and GCS profilees Randolph Sealey (above) and Angela Andrade about the current state of immigration in America and where immigration policy is headed in the 21st century. Randolph Sealey and Angela Andrade&#8217;s fascinating stories illustrate the personal side of immigration policy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/green-card-stories-on-the-leonard-lopate-show/</link>
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		<title>GREEN CARD STORIES Book Launch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the official launch of Green Card Stories! Through dynamic narratives and intimate portraits, this book examines the lives of fifty recent immigrants to the U.S., revealing the breadth and diversity of the immigrant experience. We hope this book will inspire dialogue about the current state of our country&#8217;s immigration law, and generate ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Girl in Her Room&#8217;s Rania Matar Showcased in Photo-Eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo-eye reviews Rania Matar&#8217;s new portfolio, La Femme-Enfant, a work that deals again with times of transition in a girl&#8217;s life. Where A Girl and Her Room captures teenage girls and the spaces that display their unique identities, this portfolio portrays a group of younger girls, contemplating the transitional age between childhood and adulthood. As Photo-eye writes, &#8220;Some are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/a-girl-in-her-rooms-rania-matar-showcased-in-photo-eye/</link>
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		<title>Tent Life: Haiti Reviewed in La Lettre de la Photographie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the two year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, the devastation of which is still evident. According to the International Organization for Migration, approximately 634,000 people remain living in displacement camps. For some insight into this issue, head over the La Lettre de la Photographie to read Sara Rosen&#8217;s latest review of Wyatt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/tent-life-haiti-reviewed-in-la-letter-de-la-photographie/</link>
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		<title>KYOPO Featured in Arts Observer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The style/art/fashion blog took a shine to CYJO&#8217;s project, which explores unity and dissonance in Korean identity. Her work is up at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Portrait Gallery, part of &#8220;Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,&#8221; through Oct. 2012. Don&#8217;t miss this thought-provoking show if you&#8217;re in the D.C. area.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.umbragegallery.com/blog/2012/kyopo-featured-in-arts-observer/</link>
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		<title>A Girl and Her Room at Foster Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember what your room looked like when you were 15? Drop in on the Foster Gallery at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA, where Rania Matar&#8216;s &#8220;A Girl and Her Room&#8221; is on display from January 9 &#8211; February 17, 2012. Matar spent several years photographing teenage girls in their most private spaces [...]]]></description>
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