Spennemann, an associate professor in Australia, told the Variety in an e-mail that the art exhibit will run until Dec. 31, 2010.
The exhibit Titled “Adak and Kiska: War on the Tundra” is composed of photographs that Spennemann took during his two visits to a remote Artic island —Kiska, one of the Aleutian Islands, between Russia and Alaska in the Bering Strait, in August 2007 and June 2009.
He said the Japanese established a military base on the island during World War II.
Spennemann said the exhibit involved “juggling” different values.
“Essentially it’s an American exhibition but I wanted to balance it by pushing the Japanese envelope as much as possible,” he added.
Last February, Spennemann conducted a photography workshop for 23 high school students in the CNMI as part of the NMI Council for the Humanities’s community photography project.
Spennemann, who lives in Australia, will be back in the CNMI in October.
To see Spennemann’s works, visit http://www.ausphoto.net.
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