XXI: Conflicts in a New Century           

                                        Lisa Barnard  Head Gear. Used by a soldier receiving treatment for PTSD. 2008. Copyright Lisa Barnard

                                      April 15 - June 3, 2011    Oak Cliff Cultural Center

                                      Reception: 6:30 to 9pm, Friday, April 15th, 2011

                                     Contemporary photography exhibition co-curated by Cynthia Mulcahy and arts writer and curator Charles Dee Mitchell

                                      The City of Dallas' newly built OC3 space (Oak Cliff Cultural Center). 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, TX 75208 214 670 3777

                             The exhibition XXI: Conflicts in a New Century, co-curated by Charles Dee Mitchell and Cynthia Mulcahy, examines conflicts in the first decade

                             of the 21st century including wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Congo, and Ivory Coast through photographs by many of the most notable artists,

                             documentary photographers and photojournalists working today including American photographers Stephanie Sinclair, James Nachtwey, Christopher

                             Anderson, Jamel Shabazz, Eugene Richards, Christopher Morris, Lori Grinker, Alex Majoli, Rania Matar and Oak Cliff-based independent photographers

                             Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson; British photographers Lisa Barnard, Tim Hetherington and Gary Knight; Dutch photographer Teun Voeten, Middle

                             East photojournalist Natan Dvir; and African photographers Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Fatagoma Silue (Ivory Coast).

                             On May 11 we will also be hosting a free screening of Restrepo at the newly-restored Texas Theatre, located directly next door to the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.

                             Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Restrepo won the

                             Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Tim Hetherington will be in attendance and his portraits of soldiers

                             stationed at Restrepo are also included in XXI: Conflicts in a New Century.

                             Nota Bene: A screening of the documentary film Restrepo was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition in honor of Tim Hetherington and his extraordinary

                                                 work as a filmmaker, photographer and humanitarian. Tim was originally scheduled to give a talk after the screening of his film on May 11; he was

                                                 killed April 20th, 2011, covering the war in Libya.