Activist photographer speaks at college

Newton — Paula Allen, known as an “activist with a camera,” will speak and share her photographs at Sussex County Community College on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10:50 a.m., in the Performing Arts Center. Allen has concentrated on photographing women around the world in their confrontations with violence and oppression. What makes Allen unique is her long-term approach to her subject matter, having documented many of her subjects for almost two decades. In 1999, Allen published her bilingual book, “Flores en el Desierto/Flowers in the Desert,” documenting a group of women in the northern desert of Chile for a decade, as they searched for their relatives “disappeared” after the coup in 1973. Allen has also made many trips to New Orleans to document the lives of several families devastated by Hurricane Katrina. She is currently completing her book, “Homecomings,” which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives in the aftermath of the storm. Photographs by Allen have been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. Tickets to the event are $7 and are free for SCCC students. School groups should contact the box office for more information at 973-300-3171 or www.sussex.edu.