|
 BIO Lori Grinker, born in New York, is an award-winning documentary photographer. Internationally exhibited and published, her work has garnered many awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship, an Ernst Hass Grant, Open Society Community Engagement Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant. Using still photographs, text and video, she is known for long-term, intimate documentary projects with a strong creative vision. She has published two books: The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the International Center of Photography, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and San Francisco MOMA (among others). A lecturer at Yale since 2010, and a faculty member at ICP, she teaches workshops around the world. Her current project, Distant Relations, explores through landscapes, portraits, and interiors her family’s diaspora. She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York, Meo Represents, and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988. CV SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Laurie M.Tisch Gallery, The JCC, NYC
2013 PBS News Hour “The Wilderness of War” January
2011 New York Times, Lens (online), “Piecing Together an Ancestral Puzzle” September 20 2011 Loupe (Photographic Resource Center, Boston), “Lori Grinker, Distant Relations” 2010 ARTE, profile of Lori Grinker: France, Germany 2009 Nieman Reports, “When War Ends: The Trauma That Remains” Winter 2009 Australian Photojournalist, “Afterwar by Lori Grinker” Summer 2008 Monthly Photography Magazine, Korea, Lori Grinker, October 2008 Nieman Reports, “Iraqis: Making Visible The Scars of Exile” Summer 2008 The New Yorker, ART, exhibition review, February 4 2008 Men’s Journal, “A.W.O.L” February 2008 The New Yorker, Fiction, December 3 2008 American Photo/Pop Photo, “Lori Grinker: 15 Years Documenting War” March 2008 Spin, “Fury, Fear, Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson” September 2008 Huffington Post, “Reading the Pictures: The Forgotten Iraqi Exiles” January 2007 PicturaPixel, Electronic Photo Magazine: www.picturapixel.com/english/capa.html 2006 The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing, U. of California Press 2006 The Minneapolis Star Tribune, review by art critic Mary Abbe, November 9 2006 Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/war_veterans/ 2006 Time Out Dubai, Battle Scarred,” August 31 2006 Chinese Photography magazine, “Lori Grinker and Don McCullin”, July 2006 Photographer’s Companion Magazine, China, “Lori Grinker, Afterwar” March 2006 The Washington Post, review, Afterwar exhibition, March 4 2005 The New York Times, “Picturing Some Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To” December 26 2005 lens culture: www.lensculture.com/afterwar.html 2005 Anthropological Quarterly, (cover) Winter 2005 Photo-Eye, “Survey of the Best New Photography Books 2005” 2005 Chronogram, Cover and review of Afterwar exhibition, April 2005 Sacramento Bee, “A poignant look at what happens to the injured, Afterwar” April 24 2005 The New Yorker, Afterwar exhibition, “Goings on About Town” March 28 2005 Time Out New York, Afterwar exhibition, “Don’t Miss” March 10 2005 The New York Sun, “A Photojournalist Focuses on the Lives of Veterans” May 25 2005 Revista Lateral (Spain), “Speaking for the Wounded” www.lateral-ed.es 2005 The British Journal of Photography, “After the Fighting, Surviving” May 25 2005 The Digital Journalist, “War Without End” May 2005 The Los Angeles Times Book Review, “Maimed, betrayed, forgotten” January 30 2005 The Globalist, www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5010 2005 The Financial Times, “When the battle is over” January 3 2002 Rolling Stone, “9/11: That was then, This is now” September 2001 Time, A Year to Remember, December (cover) 2001 Life Magazine, “Focus on September 11” October 2000 Marie Claire, "Sisters in Arms” May 1998 Stern, “Für Sie Hört Kreig Niemals Auf” October 1998 Photo District News, “AfterWar” September 1998 Culturefront (magazine & on-line), “Heroes” Summer 1998 La Revista (Spain), “Guerras de Verdad y de Mentira” September 1997 Geo (France), “Combattants d'Afrique” November 1996 Atlas, “Blind Women’s Orchestra” (print & web) www.atlasmagazine.com/photo/grinker_blind/ 1995 Natural History, “Sounds of Light and Hope” November 1993 The New York Times op-ed page, “Disaster in the Sudan” February 12 1991 The New York Times op-ed page, “Different Wars, Same Sadness” November 11 1991 American Photo, “How Photojournalism Can Change the World” September 1990 The New York Times Magazine (cover), “Giap Remembers," June 24 1989 Photo magazine (France), “The Invisible Thread” November 1989 Newsweek, “The Youngest Soldiers” (cover) 1986 Sports Illustrated, “Will Love and Marriage K.O. Mike Tyson” (cover), June 13 1980 South African Boxing World, “Muhammad Ali at Dundee’s Gym” April WRITING TV, FILM and RADIO (Selected) 2013 CNN Films (no title yet), documentary film on the images taken at Ground Zero (September) 2012 Black Heritage Network, video feature, “The Little Freedom Church: Saint James AME Zion” 2008 James Toback's "Tyson” 2008 Bill Moyers Journal, “Lori Grinker on Displaced Iraqis” 2006 Minnesota Public Radio, November 13, Midmorning with Kerri Miller, “Afterwar” 2006 KFAI Minnesota, Radio Catalyst: Politics & Culture with Lydia Howell, “Afterwar” 2006 Photo World, SXRTV China, “Lori Grinker, Afterwar” 2005 BBC RADIO, Night Waves with Paul Allen, “Afterwar” 2003 NOW (with Bill Moyers) - USA Public Television, “Afterwar” 2003 NOW (with Bill Moyers) - USA Public Television, “Aboard the USNS Comfort” 1999 German Public Television, “Afterwar” 1993 CNN-International Hour, “Famine in the Sudan” PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Akron Art Museum, Ohio Centre National de l'audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg International Center of Photography (ICP), NYC Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jewish Museum, NYC City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston New York Historical Society, NYC Portland Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam US Embassy to Kenya, Nairobi GRANTS & AWARDS 2008 Open Society Institute Project Distribution Grant 2008 American Photography 24 2008 American Photo Images of the Year 2007 The Puffin Foundation 2005 Dart Society, Ochberg Fellowship 2005 The Kaplowitz Foundation 2004 The Herbert Bearman Foundation 2002 Puffin Foundation 2000 Florence and John Schumann Foundation 1999 Hasselblad Foundation 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, Catalog Grant 1999 Heathcote Art Foundation 1999 Mosaïque Programme Grant – Luxembourg 1998 W. Eugene Smith Grant, Fellowship Award 1997 The Ernst Haas Award 1997 Santa Fe Center, Project Grant 1997 POY: Pictures of the Year, Award of Excellence 1996 World Press Foundation, First Prize, The Arts Stories EDUCATION 1976-1980 Communication Design, Photography, Parsons School of Design, NYC (studied with Bernice Abbott, Joyce Baronio, Benedict J. Fernandez, George Tice, Lisette Model) 1976-1977 Windham College, Putney, Vermont (Photographic study with Harold Feinstein) TEACHING 2004 - Present Faculty, International Center of Photography (ICP), NYC • Documentary Photography & Photojournalism: Seminar and Story Telling courses2010 - Present Lecturer at Yale College, CT, “ Photographing New Haven” WORKSHOPS (selected) 2013 “The Photographer as Artist and Social Documentarian” ICP, NYC, February-March 2013 “Navigating the Long Term Photographic Project” Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, July 2011 Anderson Ranch, Colorado, August 2006 Al-liquindoi Workshops with the Open Society Institute, Dubai, August TALKS & GUEST LECTURES 2012 Powerhouse Arena, NYC “On the Razor's Edge: Form and content in documentary” 2012 Photoville, NYC “The New Documentary” 2011 Fordham University, NYC “Documenting Diasporas” 2011 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence “Picturing Soldiers” 2010 Morgan Library & Museum, NYC, Illustrated Lecture by Lori Grinker 2010 Yale, New Haven, World Fellows Program 2010 New York Institute for the Humanities, NYC, “Bearing Witness” 2010 Samuel Friedman Theatre, NYC, “Time Stands Still”, “After Words” panel, NYC 2010 Columbia University, Dart Academic Fellows Program, NYC Previous Talks and Guest Lectures include: American University, Washington, DC Botero Museum, Medellin, Colombia Columbia University School of Journalism, NYC Coppin State University, Baltimore Indiana State University, Terre Haute International Center for Photography, NYC Kiev FotoCom, Ukraine Maryland Art Place (MAP), Baltimore Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Cambridge, MA Palm Beach Photographic Center, FL Pierson College, Yale University, New Haven Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Royal Photographic Society, London, UK Santa Fe Center for Photography (now Center), NM School of Visual Arts, NYC Tufts University, Boston |
| Download
printable version of bio + resumé |
|
 |
|