Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith

An exhibit featuring photographer Jason Eskenazi's photo essay Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith will open on UC Berkeley's campus September 28th, 2007. Jason spent much of the 1990's photographing the former Soviet Union and during that time was the recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant in 1996 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999. Wonderland: Fairytale of the Soviet Monolith, "is a photographic exploration that portrays both the reality beneath the veneer of a utopian USSR and the affirmation of hope that should never be abandoned. And like all fairy tales try to teach us: the hard lessons of self-reliance."

There will be a lecture and exhibition opening September 28th, 2007 6:00-9:00 pm located in North Gate Hall room 105, on UC Berkeley's campus. For more information you can visit http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/.