FLINT IS A PLACE: ZACKARY CANEPARI

Poster Size: 20 x 24 inches Flint is a place was a cross platform episodic exhibition about Flint, Michigan.  The project sought to document a specific moment within this American city both as it’s perceived and experienced. The idea is not to show people some place that they don’t know. The idea is to put them in a place that they think they do know. ZACKARY CANEPARI (USA, 1979) is a photographer and filmmaker. He began his career as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before teaming with filmmaker Drea Cooper in 2010 and launching California is a place, a documentary film series which screened at Sundance and was viewed more than 2 million times. The California series created new opportunities in both the commercial space and the editorial space for Canepari’s work and led to the project that first sent him to Flint, Michigan. The documentary feature film T-Rex, also co-directed by Drea Cooper, told the story of teenage Olympic boxer and Flint native, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields.