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Through the Lens Insightfully: U-T Photog on Tap at Democratic Club

Awarding-winner Peggy Peattie will present her "Lessons through the Lens" talk tonight at the La Mesa Community Center.

Some of Peggy Peattie’s favorite images are the ones that bare all―not skin so much as soul.

The prize-winning Union-Tribune photographer will show some of her pictures during “Lessons through the Lens: Perspectives from a Photojournalist,” a presentation at the meeting tonight (Wednesday).

Peattie (pronounced PEET-ee) focuses on community journalism and her work offers insights into lives rarely seen: a teenage mom in Ohio living in an impoverished, rural town; a grandmother in Tijuana who must become the sole caregiver to her eight grandsons; drug addicts looking to better themselves, and people working to help them.

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Peattie was named Greater Los Angeles Press Photographer of the Year five times in a row, and has won honors from the National Press Photographers Association. In 2004, she published the book Down in Dixie, a photo documentary about the significance of the Confederate flag in South Carolina, and the fight to remove it from the statehouse dome.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the .

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