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Rick Nahmias is an acclaimed photographer and writer best known for documenting the struggles of California's agricultural workforce in his traveling exhibit and book The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers,and the lives of the marginalized at prayer with Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited.His work, a unique hybrid of art, humanities and education, has been presented at over three dozen national museums, universities, and cultural centers. His work has been profiled and published in newspapers, magazines, journals and national and international weeklies, as well as presented on the floor of the U.S. Congress. They are part of numerous private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.
In 1978, nearly 100 Polish, Russian and Hungarian Holocaust survivors bought 44 acres in the Catskill Mountains of New York where they created a unique refuge called The Four Seasons Lodge. With images, sound recordings, interviews, and text, documentarian Rick Nahmias tells the counter intuitive story of a tight-knit group of vivacious Holocaust survivors who rediscovered family, community and created a sense of place all their own at The Four Seasons Lodge. It became a haven where they rekindled old friendships, rediscovered love, aged without growing old, and safely swapped stories of their harrowing pasts.
For nearly thirty years, The Four Seasons Lodge was the only bungalow colony of its kind: a community built by and for survivors. But in 2008, with their numbers dwindling and the condition of their property decaying, the lodgers voted to sell the colony and disband. Capturing their final summers, Nahmias places the lodgers zest for life in direct counterpoint to the incredible loss in their youth and sensitively preserves thse character, color pallet, textures, and traditions of this iconic place where shared experience engendered for a deep and lasting bond.
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Space requirements: Approximately 225 linear feet
Security: Moderate
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© 2010 Forma Projects 21, Venice, CA
