This past Saturday afternoon I went to the Denver Art Museum's member preview of Common Ground, a new exhibit featuring documentary photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographs of what the curator calls "displaced and marginalized communities throughout the world." I had never heard of Sheikh, and wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the photos were very good and very powerful. And the stories attached to these photographs were both moving and shocking - life in the Third World can be very harsh indeed.. The photos are mostly of refugees and oppressed people in Africa and Asia, and his work reminds me a lot of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Like Salgado, the New York born and raised Sheikh spends a lot of time with his subjects, getting to know them and the reality of their lives. His portraits are great, and I advise anyone who can to see this exhibit.
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