The Alabaster Grave: Book Signing and Artist Talk With Cengiz Yar August 23

 We are delighted to welcome Cengiz Yar for a book signing and talk this Saturday, August 23 at 5 PM - free!

This Alabaster Grave is Cengiz Yar’s first monograph exploring the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. The book questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and global war on terror as told through the lives and city that bore the brunt of its destructive force.

Cengiz is a documentary photographer and editor based in El Paso, Texas who has worked in visual journalism for over a decade, from reporting in the field to building groundbreaking online packages. He is currently a visuals editor at ProPublica, where he edits, photographs, and art-directs stories across the site.

CPW “Meet the Artist” with Nina Berman

Via The Center for Photography at Woodstock

“Meet the Artist” with Nina Berman
May 1, 2025
Doors at 5:30 pm. Artist talk at 6 pm.
25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY

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Nina Berman

On April 18, 2024, Columbia President Minouche Shafik called in the NYPD to arrest campus protesters

On Thursday, May 1, we welcome Nina Berman to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Nina will present work from her career and recent images around campus protest and the free speech crackdown at Columbia University.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, working photojournalist, and tenured Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her work explores American politics, war and militarism, environmental issues and post violence trauma. She is the author of three books, Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, Homeland and An autobiography of Miss Wish. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France among others. She is a professor at Columbia University.

Morris Museum of Art: Art Now Artist Talk: Ryan Vizzions

 Via The Morris Museum of Art

           Ryan Vizzions, Defend the Sacred: Standing Rock, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, 2016

Join us for a lecture by Atlanta native, independent photojournalist Ryan Vizzions, who set out on a mission to document the United States while traveling in his van and mobile photo studio. July 14, 2022

Lecture, 6:00 pm; reception, 7:00 p.m. FREE.  Details here.