Category: Tearsheets
Causette Magazine – Oct 5, 2016
A selection of my images from the Republican National Convention was published in the October 5, 2016 issue of Causette Magazine.
https://www.causette.fr/le-mag/lire-article/article-1610/the-trump-show.html
Afterglow – New York Times Lens Blog
My photographs produced in the days following the September 11, 2001 attacks were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog, September 7, 2016 along with an interview with Lens Blog editor James Estrin.
Stop and Frisk on Trial and in the New Yorker
The New York Police Department’s stop and frisk policy is on trial in New York City.
To learn about it, see my images on the New Yorker, and a video on the NOOR site.
Occupy Wall Street – October 14
The dramatic showdown between thousands of demonstrators and NYC Mayor Bloomberg was averted at the 11th hour when faced with overwhelming force, the Mayor decided the inhabitants of Zuccotti Park had sufficiently tidied themselves up, at least for the time being, and Occupation Wall Street continues. Feeling their power and wanting to celebrate, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets and sidewalks of lower Manhattan Friday morning. In the end, the creativity and sheer numbers of the demonstrators was too much for the NYPD. A few scenes from Friday morning.
There was at least one grotesque moment of police rage captured here See 1.41 seconds. And I noticed two occasions when plain clothes suit and tie higher ups, with no visible identification or badge number, bolted from the crowd and got physical.
Saturday October 15, Occupation Wall Street moves to Times Square.
All photos ©Nina Berman 2011, All Rights Reserved
Guernica Magazine: Seeing Double: Matt Black and Natalie Abbassi
Work by Matt Black and Natalie Abbassi, two inspiring photographers working at opposite ends of the documentary spectrum were the subjects of my guest Arts Editor piece in this month’s Guernica Magazine. I hope you find their work as exciting as I do.
Photo ©Natalie Abbassi
Hedge Portfolio in Photoworks
A 10-page portfolio, including a cover image, from my Hedge work, has been published in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Photoworks. Here are a few images.
Interview on aphotoeditor.com
I had a great chat with artist and educator Jonathan Blaustein. Thank you Jonathan and Rob Haggart for your interest in my work. To read the interview, please go to Aphotoeditor
Virginia Tech revisited
Six months after 32 people were gunned down in a campus building at Virginia Tech, I was commissioned with writer Ariel Leve to visit the university. She wrote an excellent story for the Sunday Times Magazine Some of my photographs are below. Plans must already be underway for a Tuscon, Arizona memorial. More than places of remembrance, memorials encourage closure and seem to announce by their presence, never again. But of course there will be another Columbine and another Virginia Tech and another Tuscon, Arizona, and knowing that, looking at these pictures again, I realize how perfectly the memorial melted into the landscape. What remained out of place and thoroughly unhinged, were the survivors. Photographs ©Nina Berman/NOOR. All rights reserved.
Salee Allawe – Collateral Damage
On November 7, 2006 in Hasswa, Iraq, nine-year old Salee Allawe was playing hopscotch outside her home with her brother, cousin and some friends when US mlitary jets fired three missiles, apparently at passenger vehicles. One missile landed where the children were playing, killing Salee’s brother and cousin and taking both of Salee’s legs. Cole Miller, one of the most dedicated humanitarians I have met, and founder of nomorevictims.org, arranged for Salee and her father to go to Greenville, South Carolina where volunteers cared for her and doctors fitted her with a new pair of legs. I photographed her trip there in 2007. Salee’s now a young woman, has outgrown those legs and needs to return. Here are some photos of Salee three years ago and information about her on the NoMoreVictims website. All photos © Nina Berman. The entire story can be seen at NOOR Images