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Children of La Mosca: Photo exhibit benefit
A photo exhibit of the street children of the Dominican Republic by local photographer Chip Hoffman aims to raise funds to benefit Florida Gulf Coast University professor Ingrid Martinez-Rico, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in February.
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A photo exhibit of the street children of the Dominican Republic by local photographer Chip Hoffman aims to raise funds to benefit Florida Gulf Coast University professor Ingrid Martinez-Rico, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in February.
The Arts for ACT gallery on First Street in downtown Fort Myers will host the sale and exhibition of documentary photographs taken during Martinez-Rico’s service learning project to Santiago, Dominican Republic, in March 2007. The exhibit opening and reception is July 18, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Martinez-Rico and her husband, Craig Heller, have organized spring-break service learning trips with FGCU students and faculty to the Dominican Republic for the last eight years. The purpose of the trip is to work with children who work and live in the streets.
Hoffman joined the FGCU group on the 2007 trip in an effort to introduce photography to the community’s children, while documenting the experience. His photos portraying the conditions and surroundings in La Mosca, Spanish for "the fly," a trash dump where these children live, comprise the exhibit.
On her way to work at FGCU on the morning of Feb. 5, Martinez-Rico was severely injured in an automobile accident. She is currently undergoing intensive neurological rehabilitation.
This project is an effort by her friends and family to alleviate some of the financial burden associated with her recovery. A portion of all photographic sales will go to a fund established for Martinez-Rico. Contributions may also be made independent of purchases of Hoffman’s photography, which will be on display and available July 18-30. Arts for ACT is reducing its fee for this special two-week engagement.
Arts for ACT is owned and operated by Abuse Counseling and Treatment Inc. (ACT), the domestic-violence and sexual-assault center serving Lee, Hendry and Glades counties.
For more information, contact Craig Heller at (239) 226-0817 or craigwheller@gmail.com; or Chip Hoffman at (239) 872-3335 or chip@cleanpix.com.
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