Lori Waselchuk is a documentary photographer whose photographs have
appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including
"Newsweek, LIFE, The New York Times" and "The Los Angeles Times."
She has reproduced photographs for several international aid
organizations including CARE, the UN World Food Program, Medecins
Sans Frontieres, and the Vaccine Fund. Waselchuk is a recipient of
the Aaron Siskend Foundation's 2009 Individual Photographer
Fellowship;a 2008 Distribution Grant from the Documentary
Photography Project of the Open Society Institute;the 2007
PhotoNOLA Review Prize;and the 2004 Southern African Gender and
Media Award for Photojournalism. Waselchuk was also a nominee for
the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography; a finalist in the 2008
Aperture West Book Prize; and a finalist in the 2006 and 2008
Critical Mass review.
Lawrence N. Powell is currently a Professor of History at Tulane
University, where he specializes in Civil War and Reconstruction;
Southern history; Louisiana history and politics; and the
Holocaust. He is the author of numerous books including the recent,
" New Orleans: The Making of an American Pompeii" forthcoming from
Harvard University Press; Editor, "The History of New Orleans,"
"Reconstructing Louisiana, Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the
Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana" and "New Masters Northern
Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction." Powell received
his doctorate from Yale University in 1976.
Dignity can be found at the end of life even in the most
challenging of circumstances. "Grace Before Dying" shares the
powerful story of a unique movement to care for the dying that is
transforming lives within a correctional institution. Seeing
violence replaced with empathy and compassion is an important
lesson for everyone.
J. Donald Schumacher, PsyD, President and CEO, National Hospice and
Palliative Care Organization
"These are literally life-and-death matters Waselchuk is showing.
Which makes all the more impressive the restraint with which she
presents them."
Mark Feeny, The Boston Globe
"[Waselchuck's] black-and-white prints capture moments of delicate
intimacy between dying patients and the volunteer inmates caring
for them."
John Fichera, BU Today
"
"Dignity can be found at the end of life - even in the most
challenging of circumstances. "Grace Before Dying" shares the
powerful story of a unique movement to care for the dying that is
transforming lives within a correctional institution. Seeing
violence replaced with empathy and compassion is an important
lesson for everyone."
--J. Donald Schumacher, PsyD, President and CEO, National Hospice
and Palliative Care Organization
"These are literally life-and-death matters Waselchuk is showing.
Which makes all the more impressive the restraint with which she
presents them."
--Mark Feeny, The Boston Globe
"[Waselchuck's] black-and-white prints capture moments of delicate
intimacy between dying patients and the volunteer inmates caring
for them."
--John Fichera, BU Today
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