March 31, 2023 – Peace Corps Worldwide

The Volunteer who became a nationally known film director and producer — Taylor Hackford (Bolivia)

Mar 31 2023

Jeremiah Norris (Colombia 1963-65) • After graduating from the University of Southern California, Taylor Hackford served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia from 1968 to 1969. While in Bolivia, he started using a Super 8 movie camera in his spare time — a camera purchased for him by a fellow Volunteer. After his volunteer days, Taylor decided that he did not want to pursue a career in law as he had earlier considered, and instead found a mailroom job at KCET, a public TV station in Los Angeles, where, in 1970, he became an associate producer on the Leon Russell special “Homeword.” Then, In 1973, again at KCET, he produced a one-hour special “Bukowski” about the poet Charles Bukowski. Although he had never gone to film school, Taylor went on to be director of 15 major films, producer of 13 others, and the executive producer of 7 more. He was director . . .

Sherry Morris (Ukraine) — Short story and Flash Fiction Writer

Mar 31 2023

Based in the Scottish Highlands Sherry Morris is from a small town in Missouri, but hasn’t let that stop her. She spent the summer of her 18th birthday traveling up the coast of France with a circus and after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a teaching degree, joined the Peace Corps. She served two years in Ukraine (1993-95) and spent a further year in Poland before moving to London in 2000. In February 2017 she moved to a farm in the Scottish Highlands where she lives happily ever after. Her work has appeared online with Horror Scribes and Gemini magazine, in print with Molotov Cocktail and the Bath Flash anthology To Carry Her Home. It has also been performed with Liars’ League London and The Space theatre in east London. A story she wrote about her Peace Corps experience — “Soul Mates” appears in A Small Key Opens Big Doors: Vol 3 — The Heart of Eurasia. She . . .

Bill Owens : 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection (Jamaica)

Mar 31 2023

True North Editions : Bill Owens : 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection “This is our second annual Fourth of July block party. This year thirty-three families came for beer, barbequed chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, green salad, macaroni salad, and watermelon. After eating and drinking we staged our parade and fireworks.” © Bill Owens – Courtesy True North Editions / Scott Nichols Gallery Suburbia by Bill Owens (Jamaica 1964-66): this book marked the history of photography! It is fifty years old and a portfolio including 30 of his images has just been republished. Bill Owens and True North Editions celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the seminal book, Suburbia with this limited edition portfolio, Bill Owens — 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection. The portfolio was created with the intent of placement in institutional collections, and is available through Scott Nichols Gallery. This portfolio is comprised of 36 remastered photographs from Suburbia, selected for . . .

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