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The Circus Comes To Town #2 - Limited Edition of 1 Print

James Longley

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This image is offered as a single edition unique signed print at this size. The Circus Comes To Town #2 is the second of two finished images I made on this theme in Sukkur, Pakistan, in 2010. After photographing and filming the victims of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan, I also took some street photography in Sukkur, which was the town in Sindh where I stayed most of the time. The large aid agencies in the area were mainly based there, and that was the location to which most refugees had moved when the flooding struck. But Sukkur is also an ordinary town in its own right, and I always find it wonderful to explore such places. Pakistan has an infinite visual variety, created out of the hand-made and site-specific nature of things. I love the soft light and colors of this image, and the chance arrangement of figures, with many cut off at the edges of the frame - I like this feeling as well. The suspension bridge out of the focus on the left adds a layer of visual mystery to the location. This image is offered as a single edition signed print at this 34 x 24 inch size, printed on Hahnemühle archival rag paper, signed. Unframed. A portion of Longley's income from these prints goes to support people he has worked with and filmed in the past, particularly in Afghanistan - their education and upkeep of their families. Collectors are encouraged to contact James Longley directly through his portfolio site - - with questions about prints, or to commission work.

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Giclee on Fine Art Paper

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12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

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17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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From a multiple Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning filmmaker who combines fine art sensibility with a passion for communicating the worlds of civilians caught up in conflict, Longley’s film and photography work witnesses places such as Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through an approach best described as Slow Journalism, Longley creates a big picture view from an intimate perspective. Describing Longley's work in the Los Angeles Times in 2019, film critic Kenneth Turan wrote: "What is life like on the ground for ordinary people in another culture, another world? That’s been the bread and butter of observational documentaries for forever, but almost never is it done with the kind of beauty and grace filmmaker James Longley brings to his Afghanistan-set “Angels Are Made of Light.” As his 2006 Oscar-nominated “Iraq in Fragments” demonstrated, MacArthur Fellow Longley, who serves as his own cinematographer as well as directs, has an almost magical ability to envelope us in other realities. He does it via the poetry of his imagery as well as a gift for focused illumination that creates empathetic portraits of people who are both ordinary and intensely involving." ... In 2009 James was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2011 a USArtists Ford Fellow. These substantial awards helped to create his most recent filmed and photographic work. James has taught master classes at Hong Kong University, Duke University's Center For The Arts, The Goethe Institute in Kigali, and in Zurich for FOCAL. Longley has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Jury Awards at Sundance - for Directing, Cinematography, and Editing - among many other heartwarming accolades. 35mm prints of Longley's filmed work can be found in the archives MoMA, The Academy Film Archive, the Duke University Archive, Wesleyan University, The Northwest Film Forum and the Library of Congress. A portion of James' income from the sale of these images goes to support the people he has filmed and worked with the past - particularly in Afghanistan. Please visit James' portfolio site at for more photography and films, and to contact him for custom printing or to commission work.

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