Innovative Projects
These image-based projects are a selection from among the many that have creatively dealt with a variety of issues, all of them impacting readers and some provoking larger societal discussions that have led to change. I introduce them to underline their importance, and add background information on those that I have worked on.
Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace
STILL HERE
Curated Projects
Small groupings of projects on similar themes.
MEMORY AND TRAUMA
ABOUT TIME
Access to Life by Magnum (Exhibition, Book, 2009)
Ausencias (Absences) by Gustavo Germano (Exhibition, 2006)
Baghdad Calling by Geert van Kesteren (Book, 2008)
Basetrack 1/8 by Teru Kuwayama and Balazs Gardi (Social media, 2010-2011)
Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace by Gilles Peress, , edited by Fred Ritchin (Interactive Photo Essay, 1996)
Cairo Open City edited by Florian Ebner and Constanze Wicke (Exhibition, Book, 2013)
Camera Buff by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Film, 1979)
Cent mille milliards de poèmes | 100,000 Billion Poems by Raymond Queneau (Book, 1961)
Chasing the Dream curated by Fred Ritchin (Exhibition/website, 2005)
Children of Ceausescu by Kent Klich (Book, 2001)
Constellations (77 million paintings) by Brian Eno (Generative artwork, 2006)
Correspondance New-Yorkaise by Raymond Depardon (Newspaper, Book, 1981)
Death in the Making by Robert Capa (Book, 1938, 2020)
Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Book, 1952, 2015)
Diary by Tim Hetherington (Video, 2010)
Digital Diary: Witnessing the War by Brian Palmer (Web project, 2004)
Earthrise by Bill Anders (Photograph, 1968)
El libro que no puede esperar | The book that cannot wait published by Eterna Cadencia (Book, 2012)
El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers by Harry Mattison, Susan Meiselas, Fae Rubenstein (Book, 1984)
End of the Game by Peter Beard (Book, 1963)
Every 17 Seconds: A Global Perspective on the Aids Crises by Brian Weil (Book, 1992)
Exploding into Life by Eugene Richards (Book, 1986)
Extreme Ice Survey by James Balog (Photo program, 2007)
Fata Morgana by Josep Renau (Book, 1977)
Femmes Algériennes 1960 by Marc Garanger (Book, 1982)
Four Frames on America by Fred Ritchin | The New York Times (Op-Ed, 1991)
Gloucester Photographs by Nubar Alexanian (Interactive web project/book, 2001)
Grandma’s Not Shovel-Ready! Signs From 9/12 and the Tea Parties of 2009 by unknown (Book, 2010)
Growing Up Female by Abigail Heyman (Book, 1974)
Here We Are by Mengwen Cao (Multimedia piece, 2016)
House of Bondage by Ernest Cole (Book, 1967)
I Protest! by David Douglas Duncan (Book, 1968)
Image Atlas by Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz (Website, 2012)
Inside Out by JR (Photo project/installation, 2013)
Is Anyone Taking Any Notice? by Don McCullin (Book, 1973)
akaKurdistan by Susan Meiselas (Website/book,1997)
L’Homme au carnet | The Address Book by Sophie Calle (Book, 1983)
La Casa Que Sangra | The House That Bleeds by Yael Martínez (Multimedia piece, 2013)
La Jetée by Chris Marker (Film, 1965)
Last Supper by Celia Shapiro (Photo project, 2001)
Last Suppers by James Reynolds (Photo project, 2009)
Living with the Enemy by Donna Ferrato (Book, 1991)
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane (Jazz album, 1964)
Magnum Photobook by Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar (Book, 2016)
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (Film, 1929)
Mirrors and Windows by John Szarkowski (Exhibition/book, 1978)
New Ways of Photographing the New Maasai by Jan Hoek (Book, 2014)
Nuclear Nightmares by Robert Knoth (Interactive photo essay, 2007)
Number 27 by Jonathan Harris (Website, 2002-2018)
A People War: Images of the Nepal Conflict, 1996-2006 by Kunda Dixit (Book, 2006)
Picture Imperfect by Kent Klich (Photo project, Book, 2007)
Still Here produced by AJ Contrast (Multi-media project, 2020)
Titicut Follies by Frederick Wiseman (Film, 1967)
War Against War! by Ernst Friedrich (Book, 1924)
To read
- The Lens Keeps on Looking: Guy Tillim in an interview with Peter Geimer
- Image & Peace
- ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ – photographers from the country put on a compelling show
- These Are the First 100% AI-Generated Stock Photos of People
- Witnesses: 50 years of Doctors Without Borders | Magnum Photos
- How photography and storytelling can turn apathy into climate action by Cristina Mittermeier
- A.I. Is Not A-OK by Maureen Down
To view
- VIDEO: Exiting the Photographic Universe
- VIDEO: Synthetic Media: How deepfakes could soon change our world
- EXHIBITION: In Ukraine
- EXHIBITION: The Protest and Recuperation
- EXHIBITION: Dawoud Bey An American Project
- VIDEO: Fascism in America
- EXHIBITION: David Goldblatt Strange Instrument Curated By Zanele Muholi In Collaboration with Yancey Richardson Gallery