Contact: Kate Somers
Phone: 609-497-2441

Artist Reception: January 11, 2008, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Exhibition dates: December 3, 2007 – January 11, 2008
Gallery hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Bernstein Gallery is pleased to present "Burmese Days", photographs by Mary Cross. The exhibition runs from December 3, 2007 through January 11, 2008 with a closing reception on January 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. to which the public is invited. The work on view is a continuation of Ms. Cross's continued photographic investigation into different cultures of the world.

"Burmese Days" is a result of a trip Ms. Cross made to Burma (Myanmar) in the fall of 2004. As with all of her photography from different parts of the world, "Burmese Days" shows the photographer's ability to capture both the timeless icons and the daily ephemera of life in another culture. Current events in Myanmar have made even more clear to the world outside that this once peaceful Buddhist country is at the mercy of a murderous government. These pictures do not show signs of its abusive military which makes them all the more disturbingly beautiful.

Mary Cross is the author of Behind the Great Wall, Egypt; Morocco: Sahara to the Sea; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in this country including at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, The University of Pennsylvania, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Over the last 18 years, she has shown her work many times in the Bernstein Gallery. As a young woman, Ms. Cross studied philosophy and literature at the Sorbonne and later studied photography under the late Philippe Halsman.