Leslie Thomas and Art Works Projects

Turning Art Into Activism

A photograph from a crisis half a world away enraged Leslie Thomas. Then she took action.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/turning-art-into-activism/?pagewanted=all

Ms. Thomas,  an architect turned activist,  is the founder of Art Works Projects, which uses photography to raise awareness of human rights concerns and spur action. Over the last five years it has mounted exhibitions and presented large-scale public slide projections on various themes. It has now published a book of images with accompanying posters and curriculums on the lives of women in Afghanistan. A wide-ranging retrospective opens in Slovenia on Tuesday.