UPTOWN — For those who missed Ivan Lo's photographs at the Bezazian Library last year, the Uptown-based humanitarian and photographer's work is now on display downtown.
From March 13 - May 1, Lo's series Stories of Afghanistan: Photographs by Ivan Lo will be available for viewing at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., in the popular library on the ground floor and the exhibit cases on the eighth floor, according to the library's website.
Lo will also be giving slideshow presentations Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Albany Park branch and April 18 at 2 p.m. in the Chicago authors room on the seventh floor of the Harold Washington Library Center.
His photographs were taken during his several trips to the war-torn country between 2006 and 2011. Since 2006, he's partnered with numerous non-governmental organizations, according to the website.
The photographs depict everything from an Afghan optometry outreach program to a school training teachers to educate disabled children.
"Afghanistan is so much more than just the war," Lo previously told DNAinfo Chicago. "The people that I met, they are some of the most resilient people I've ever seen."
After Lo was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at age 23, he promised to devote his life to devote his life to something worthwhile, he previously told DNAinfo Chicago.
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