Education
Grinker studied photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City with Bernice Abbott, George Tice, and Lisette Model.
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The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women
(A unique, inspiring, and vibrant portrait of sixty women ...)
A unique, inspiring, and vibrant portrait of sixty women exploring how they blend their faith and/or sense of Jewishness in their lives, their families, their expectations, and their commitments.
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Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict
( Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict is a culmin...)
Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict is a culmination of 15 years spent photographing and interviewing men, women and children who have been on the frontlines of every major conflict of the past century. It is a portrait documenting the deep physical and psychological effects on the veterans whose bodies and minds are changed forever. It is not the “politics” of a particular war that the people in this work represent, but rather a portrayal of our culture of warring and the aftermath of war in human terms. Organized in reverse chronological order, from the most recently ended conflicts to the early part of the century, the book includes Sri Lanka, Liberia, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Israel-Palestine, El Salvador, Cambodia, Eritrea-Ethiopia, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Falkland Islands, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Algeria, Indochina, Korea, China, World War II, Spain and World War I. Lori Grinker, born in 1957 in New York, is a member of the photo agency Contact Press Images. Her social-humanistic work has taken her to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USSR, Africa and throughout the United States. Her work has been featured in Life, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, the Sunday Times Magazine (London), Stern, GEO, French Photo and American Photo. She is the author/photographer of The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women. Chris Hedges is a former war correspondent in El Salvador, Kosovo, the Balkans, the Middle East and the first Gulf War. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1990, and he was a member of newspaper’s team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for coverage of global terrorism. He is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
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Lori Grinker
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Career
She is best known for her self-directed, long-term documentary projects, and has conducted these projects through photography, video and multimedia. Grinker has had two books of her work published and been exhibited internationally. Her work has been featured in Life, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, and GEO among others
While at Parsons, she conducted a photo essay on boxers who worked with boxing trainer Cus Doctorate"Amato.
Although her project focused on nine-year-old pugilist Billy Hamm, she also met 13-year-old Mike Tyson during this time, and would continue to photograph him for the next ten years, including his 1988 Sports Illustrated Magazine Cover. Grinker also covered 9/11, and took one of her most well-known photographs of firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero during this time.
Foreign her book The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (co-authored with writer Diana Bletter) she traveled across America documenting the stories of Jewish women and what tied them together. Her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict is an exploration of the effects of war on its many actors and victims after the wars have ended.
In 2012 Grinker worked on her first short documentary, The Little Freedom Church (for the Black Heritage Network).
In 2013 her self produced and directed video Wilderness After War for the Dart Society about the effects of Posttraumatic stress disorder (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) on three former United States. service members was featured on Public Broadcasting Service Newshour. Her current photography project is Distant Relations, which explores, through landscapes, interiors, and environmental portraits, her family’s diaspora. Grinker teaches at the International Center for Photography and is a lecturer at Yale.
Achievements
Works
book
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Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict
( Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict is a culmin...)
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The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women
(A unique, inspiring, and vibrant portrait of sixty women ...)
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Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict
Membership
She has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.
