Serina Matsas, at home, Ioannina, Greece, 1980 by Morrie Camhi
An Eye Towards Justice, an exhibit on display in MTSU’s Baldwin Photographic Gallery, captures the work of documentarian Morrie Camhi through excerpts from two of his thought-provoking photo collections: “The Prison Experience” and “Faces and Facets: The Jews of Greece.”
Guests can view An Eye Towards Justice on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Thursday, April 15, in Room 269 of the university’s Bragg Media and Entertainment Building.
The gelatin silver prints in Cahmi’s Baldwin Gallery exhibit include images of individual Jewish people living in various places in Greece and the lives and concerns of prisoners in the California State Prison at Vacaville.
Camhi was born in New York City in 1928, a descendant of Greek Sephardic Jews. He majored in English literature at UCLA, working his way through school as a lab technician before commencing a self-taught career in commercial photography in Petaluma, California.
In 1969 he sold his business and began focusing on documentary work, later teaching photography at City College of San Francisco. Camhi traveled extensively, shot and exhibited photos, taught and mentored other photographers and was a respected member of the Petaluma business and art communities until his death in 1999.
For more information about the MTSU Baldwin Photographic Gallery, located on the second floor of the Bragg Building, contact shannon.randol@mtsu.edu or visit baldwinphotogallery.com. A campus parking map is available at tinyurl.com/mtsuparking2020. Guests may obtain a special one-day permit from MTSU’s Office of Parking and Transportation.
