Wednesday, February 12, 2025
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Maine-based photographer Audrey Gottlieb shares images from her time as official photographer for the United Nations’ 1993 peacekeeping mission to Somalia in her current MJM exhibition, “The Shifting Sands of Somalia.”
In this program, Audrey will be joined by Maine-based refugee and immigrant rights activist and author Abdi Nor Iftin. The two will share their experience of the civil war in Somalia and its resulting mass displacement.
Audrey Gottlieb
January 9 – February 28, 2025
About This Exhibition
“In 1993, the year of the infamous “Blackhawk Down” in Mogadishu, Somalia, I was the official photographer for the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). I traveled via armed vehicle convoys, helicopters, military transport planes and armored personnel carriers. I photographed meetings of dignitaries, grip-and-grin handshakes, Somali warlords and war ladies, multinational peacekeepers and ordinary Somali citizens.”
Audrey Gottlieb, documentary photographer, is best known for her work on American immigration in the borough of Queens, New York. A graduate of Temple University, Gottlieb has worked as a photographer, educator and researcher. She joined the United Nations in 1973, serving in public information, photography, editing and translation positions in New York, Geneva, Nicosia, Nairobi and Mogadishu. She resides in York, Maine.
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