“Unbroken” photography exhibit curated by George Carrano.
This nonprofit exhibit was widely promoted in local borough media, an important outreach to New Yorkers rarely attending exhibits in commercial galleries. The New York Times called the show poignant.
- The exhibit opened with the support of a community arts group (Rockaway, Queens) where it was staged in a former army barracks.
- Success in the outer boroughs as seen by media coverage opened the door to an exhibit at Columbia University and a show in Chelsea.
- The show has since traveled to Atlanta, Boston and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The New York Times, July 10, 2004 “Child Photographers Show Lives of Hardship and Hope” by Julie Salamon, “How did such worthiness find its way to a commercial art gallery in fashionable Chelsea? By means of George A. Carrano, the retired Metropolitian Transportation Authority official responsible for swapping tokens for Metrocards.…”
“‘For me, these photographs turned photojournalism on its head by putting the cameras into the hands of the people who are usually the subjects,’ Mr. Carrano said in an interview at the gallery. He elaborated on what inspired his passion. ‘It’s like a Fellini film, all this despair and at the end, this sense of optimism.’”
