Jeffrey Sauger “Where Furrows Run Deep”

Loupe Digital Studio

poster for Jeffrey Sauger “Where Furrows Run Deep”

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Loupe Digital honors Black History Month with images from a disappearing culture. The American Dream remains elusive for our nation’s black farmers, who have been losing their land at a rate three times faster than the national average. Institutional racism, foreclosures and bankruptcy have torn families from farms they have occupied for generations. Today, African Americans own roughly only 1 percent of all farmland in the United States.

As this population continues to disappear from our national landscape, Loupe Digital Studio presents “Where Furrows Run Deep,” a comprehensive collection of images by Detroit-based photographer Jeffrey Sauger. Shot on black-and-white film over several years, “Where Furrows Run Deep” depicts the tragedy and triumph of the American black farmer without artifice: It is both anthropological document and aesthetic achievement.

Jeffrey Sauger began the project as a graduate student in Ohio in 1999. He continued the project through grants and sponsorship from Blue Earth Alliance. Sauger received his master’s degree from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication, and is a professional photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post. In 2000, Sauger was named Michigan Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association. An abbreviated version of “Where Furrows Run Deep” has appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sunday magazine. He lives in Detroit, where he continues shooting editorial and commercial work for newspapers, magazines and clients like General Motors.

For more on Jeffrey Sauger and “Where Furrows Run Deep,” visit www.wherefurrowsrundeep.com
or www.jeffreysaugerphotography.com.

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Schedule

from February 04, 2010 to February 26, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-02-04 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Jeffrey Sauger

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