May 8, 2005: Events: Headlines: COS - Madagascar: Photography - Madagascar: Museums: Portland Press Herald: RPCV Christian Farnsworth shows "Rainforests and Refugees: A First in a Series of Photographs from Madagascar and West Africa," in South Portland thorugh June 25

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RPCV Christian Farnsworth shows "Rainforests and Refugees: A First in a Series of Photographs from Madagascar and West Africa," in South Portland thorugh June 25

RPCV Christian Farnsworth shows Rainforests and Refugees: A First in a Series of Photographs from Madagascar and West Africa, in South Portland thorugh June 25

RPCV Christian Farnsworth shows "Rainforests and Refugees: A First in a Series of Photographs from Madagascar and West Africa," in South Portland thorugh June 25

Maine photographers share intimate portraits of Africa

By BOB KEYES, Portland Press Herald Writer

Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

WHAT: "Rainforests and Refugees: A First in a Series of Photographs from Madagascar and West Africa," by Christian Farnsworth.

WHERE: House of Frames, 863 Broadway, South Portland.

WHEN: Through June 25.

[Excerpt]

An intimate portrait of Africa and its people emerge in two unrelated photography exhibitions that opened in South Portland and Kennebunk.

Each exhbitition also shares the global perspective of a Maine artist.

Christian Farnsworth, a Cape Elizabeth educator and photographer, spent two years in Madagascar in the mid-1990s as a Peace Corps volunteer. Later, he traveled throughout Guinea, working with the World Food Program.

"I call it Madagascar 101," said Farnsworth, who works as a substitute teacher in South Portland and Cape Elizabeth. "This is something I have wanted to do since I got back. I love sharing stories with anybody who is interested in listening."

Farnsworth arrived in Madagascar in 1994 as a Peace Corps volunteer. His mission was to help villagers establish tree nurseries and to teach land conservation.

He worked with people who lived in an area of rain forest that is being burned to make room for crops.

"The rain forest is just a fantastic life source. You go in, and you're in Eden, with a thousand colors of green. You step out of the rain forest, and they're burning it down. It's a heaven-and-hell relationship that just really struck me," he said.

In 2001, he returned to Africa, this time to Guinea to work with the World Food Program, the major food sponsor for refugees and displaced people.

The West African nation is bordered by three countries embroiled in civil war. Farnsworth set up food programs in grammar schools, to lessen the burden on families.

During his time in Africa, he shot hundreds of photographs and is showing 50 of them at House of Frames in South Portland.

The exhibition is Farnsworth's first in Maine.

Staff Writer Bob Keyes can be contacted at 791-6457 or at:

bkeyes@pressherald.com





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