At the Meg Perry Center 644 Congress St. Portland Opening 5-8pm First Friday August 1st Opening food provided by Local Sprouts Cooperative

In 2006 Matt McInnis travelled to Uganda to document the lives of Sudanese refugee students living in a resettlement camp. Matt worked closely with Aserela Maine, an organization of Sudanese refugees living in Portland, and photographed a school that was funded by fundraisers held in Portland.

The exhibit includes black and white photographs taken in Southern Sudan, Uganda, and Portland.

The exhibit will also include selections from newer projects: one on AIDS orphans in Southern Uganda and another on coffee farmers in Guatemala who are unable to become FairTrade certified.

Matthew McInnis Biogrpahy In 2006, Matt attended the United Nations conference on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol in Nairobi, Kenya and later worked on photo projects in Uganda and Southern Sudan. In 2007, Matt, graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies with a focus in photography where he worked on two projects, one on Alfred Jacob, a Sudanese refugee, and the other on an artist with Down syndrome living in Bowdoinham, Maine. In 2008 he went to Guatemala to work with coffee farmers who are unable to be ‘Fair-Trade’ certified. He is a student of Human Ecology and Photography at the College of the Atlantic. Matthew McInnis grew up in Portland, Maine.