IPPA Convention speaker: Lori Grinker, Freelance

LORI GRINKER
Freelance
New York, NY

Lori Grinker began her photographic career in 1981 while a student at Parsons School of Design when her photo-essay about a young boxer was published as a cover story by Inside Sports. During that time she met another young boxer, 13 year-old Mike Tyson, whose life she documented for the following decade. Since then in addition to her reportage of events such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, she has delved into long-term book projects including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 7 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, March 2005), her fifteen-year project on veterans of the last century.

Published in major magazines, her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world and are in many private and museum collections including: ICP (The International Center of Photography), The Jewish Museum in New York City, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,

Of her most recent exhibition, The New Yorker wrote: Although Grinker’s photographs and a brief video about Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan, are clearly shards of a much larger project, the impact of their installation here is hardly diminished. Several of her subjects worked with American forces in Iraq and were targeted as collaborators; others fled violence that intruded into their homes. All of them live in limbo (“No schools, no work, no money,” one woman says) in shabby apartments that Grinker documents as carefully as she records their faces and their terrible wounds. The material is painful but never sensationalized or sentimentalized; Grinker gives a face, a name, and a nagging immediacy to the disfigured and dispossessed.

Between editorial assignments and personal projects, Grinker lectures, teaches workshops, and is on the faculty of the ICP in New York City, She is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.

Related websites:
http://www.lorigrinker.com
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