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Sue Wrbican
Rhode Island School of Design
During a ten year involvement with a Pittsburgh publication known as the
Mill Hunk Herald, Sue Wrbican’s work in photography and poetry grew
out of personal experiences as an employee of a steel mill, a cable television
company, a waitress and a woodworker. As a staff photographer at the
University of Pittsburgh from 1989-1994, she devoted much of her time to
a documentary project called “A Portrait of Braeburn” interviewing
and photographing residents regarding their memories of this small steel
community on the Allegheny River. Wrbican is currently finishing her
MFA thesis at the Rhode Island School of Design. The resulting piece
is a video incorporating her deceased father’s extensive film and
photography archive with her own poetry about their difficult relationship.
The shift from looking outside to looking inside was spurred by issues of
representation that arose while doing documentary photography.
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