Photojournalist Presents “Eyewitness Gaza” Multi Media Presentation at Brevard College Friday

Photojournalist Skip Schiel will present, “Eyewitness Gaza,” a multi media presentation about his 2008 trip to Gaza on Friday, February 6 at Brevard College.

The presentation will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Room 125 of the McLarty-Goodson Building on Brevard College’s campus. It is free and open to the public.

Schiel, who is from Cambridge Mass., has traveled and photographed in Israel-Palestine over a five-year period, usually three months each year. Using photographs and stories, he will present his experiences from his last journey to Gaza in January, 2008.

Since 1990, Schiel has taught photography through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Harvard University's Landscape Institute. His photography ranges between landscape, abstract, experimental, portraiture and socially engaged. Schiel’s photos have appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and Progressive Magazine, and are in the collections of Harvard University. He has had exhibitions in numerous venues across the country.