IRIS Nights Presents Bruce Hall with Corinne Marrinan
A Conversation About the Film
Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers
Thursday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm

This IRIS Nights presentation offers a look at the extraordinary documentary directed by Neil Leifer, Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. The Space will be screening the 30-minute film, which shows this little known world. A discussion between the producer, Corinne Marrinan, and one of the film's subjects, Bruce Hall, will follow the screening. These collaborators will impart stories from the making of the film and share the intricacies of Hall's creative process.

Bruce Hall has been an underwater photographer since 1983. As an elementary school teacher in Costa Mesa, California, Hall used his photography to share his knowledge of local ocean life in the classroom to engage his students. Macro, or close-up, photography enables Hall, who is legally blind, to identify specific features of plant and animal life living along the southern California coastline, as well as to study and enjoy the undersea world after he has left it.

Hall's work has been published in textbooks, magazines including National Geographic and shown in juried art exhibitions around the United States. In the summer of 2006, Hall was honored by the Nature's Best Photography Magazine's Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition. The winning photograph "Giant Kelp" was on display at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C. for a year in 2006.

Corinne Marrinan won an Academy Award in 2006 for the film A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, and was nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy in 2001 for the documentary short On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom. Most recently, Marrinan produced the short documentary Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers for HBO. She is currently a Staff Writer for the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, for which she has worked for the past nine seasons. She has authored two companion guides to the popular series published by Simon and Schuster and Dorling Kindserley.

To register for this lecture, please click here. We recommend that you make your reservations soon, as our lectures tend to fill up quickly. If you are unable to reserve seats through our ticketing system, don't be discouraged...10 minutes prior to the lecture we release any seats that have not been claimed by ticketholders to standby guests.

The Photography Space is also pleased to announce plans for our spring exhibit. Tentatively entitled 'WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD," the exhibit was created in partnership with National Geographic Magazine. It will open to the public on March 27, 2010, to coincide with the release of National Geographic's April 2010 issue on the precarious state of the world's fresh water.

"WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD" will examine the local and global challenges of our planet's fresh water resources captured by a selection of National Geographic’s finest, award-winning photographers. The digital and print images will highlight the significance of water and how the diminishment of this precious resource is impacting our lives. Details and final schedules for additional programming will be announced later this winter. "WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD" will run through June 13, 2010.

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We also wanted to let you know that the Photography Space will be closed for a private event on both Saturday, February 6 and Sunday, February 7. We look forward to seeing you when our doors reopen the following Wednesday

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