Rome Sentinel A series of photographs by Lynne Browne, of Rome, will be featured in the Portraits of Hope: Faces of Refugee Resettlement in Central New York exhibit at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, beginning Sunday.

The Portraits of Hope project began in fall 2012 when SUNY Poly associate professor and project co-curator Kathryn Stam asked Browne to take photos of newly arrived refugees from Nepal and Thailand who were performing at a music festival in Utica. Several performances and thousands of photos later, the exhibit features refugees from around the world who have made their way to Utica.

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