The exhibit is split between Hutchins Library and The Appalachian Center Gallery, Bruce Building.  The see the entire exhibit you have to visit BOTH locations.

The exhibit is a sampler of Milton Rogovin's (1909-) lifetime body of work as a documentary photographer.  Rogovin focused on the lives of working people around the world.  It features images from Rogovin's "Brother Miner" series, on miners around the world, including Appalachia.

Rogovin once said:
"The rich have their own photographers.  I photograph the forgotten ones."

The exhibit appears at Berea thanks to generous support from the Rogovin Family. 

Paula Rogivin, Milton's daughter, will visit campus during the showing a film on her father's life, "The Rich Have Their Own Photographers" on February 17, 2009 at 7:30pm in the Appalachian Center.

More info on Rogovin direclty from the exhibit:

Milton Rogovin is ninety-nine years old. Throughout his long life he has used lenses to help people, in his optometry practice and as a documentary photographer capturing the lives of hard-working people around the world.
 
Rogovin was born in New York City in 1909, graduated from Columbia University in 1931, established an optometry practice in Buffalo, New York, in 1939, and married Anne Snetsky in 1942.  That same year, he purchased his first camera.
 
Rogovin turned his camera lens on the social issues of his lifetime: the plight of miners in ten nations, the decline of industry, the struggle and pride of working people, and the celebration of the Spirit and community. He photographed Buffalo¹s lower West Side, its storefront churches, and its steelworkers.  He travelled to Appalachia to photograph coal miners.  And as his vision expanded, he took his camera to the working people of France, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and Zimbabwe.
 
However, Rogovin¹s interest in working people was not without cost.  In 1952 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee.  The Buffalo Evening News named him ³Buffalo¹s Top Red.²  The persecution that followed impacted his business and his family.
 
Rogovin¹s work has appeared in 160 journals, 90 exhibitions, and eight books.  His images are in the collections of museums around the world.  In 1999, the Library of Congress acquired a set of Rogovin¹s master prints and negatives. The irony is not lost on Rogovin that the very government that persecuted him in the 1950s now celebrates his defiant work as a champion of the poor and working class.

Even more info at www.miltonrogovin.com
And www.tellingimagefilms.com