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Princeton University International Center, (609) 258-5006Date: February 23, 1999
"Women and Children in the Soviet Union and Successor States: A Photo Exhibit"
PRINCETON, N.J.-- In celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8, the Princeton University International and Women’s centers will host an exhibit of Rebecca Matlock’s photography featuring women and children in the Soviet Union and its successor states. A reception for Matlock and tour of the exhibit will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 8, at 91 Prospect Avenue, Stevenson Hall, 2nd floor in Princeton.
Matlock spent a total of 11 years in the Soviet Union from the 1960s to the 1990s when her husband was an American diplomat. She visited 14 of the 15 republics of the USSR. As a Russian-speaking lecturer, she has appeared often on Soviet television and radio programs. She has had 21 photo exhibitions in locations as diverse as Vladivostok, Riga, and Grozny, in Chechnya. Her photography was featured in an hour-long television special produced recently in the Republic of Georgia. She has visited seven of the independent countries that resulted from the break-up of the USSR.
In the United States, Matlock has lectured and presented her photography in numerous locations including the Parsons School of Design in New York. She has been invited to give a slide lecture at the Explorers’ Club in New York in April, and to exhibit her photographs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in September.
The International Women’s Day photo exhibit will be on display at the Women’s and International Centers at Princeton University throughout the month of March, Women’s History Month.