Art — February 11, 2013, 11:20 am
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Jetty, Niger Delta. A man arrives at the end of the day to sell ice cream to children who have finished helping unload diesel fuel from the creeks. © Samuel James
Work from James’s series “The Water of My Land,” which ran in the September 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, will be showing at the Half King in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, from February 12 to April 7. Please join James and Harper’s art director Stacey D. Clarkson at the Half King on Tuesday, February 12, at 7:30 for a discussion of the stories and images from the series.
More from Samuel James:
From the September 2012 issue
From the September 2012 issue
From the September 2012 issue
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:
A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.
A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
