"A marathon Election Day in the books for Politico—19ish hours of coverage across three boroughs chasing Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo across the city that never sleeps, fueled by halal cart & an obscene number of coffees." --Bing Guan
Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race
The democratic socialist vanquished Andrew Cuomo in a contest being closely watched by national Democrats, Republicans and the White House. --click for Politico article with photos
Via Social Documentary Network
May 5, 2025
This America
Tuesday, May 13, 1:30 pm ET via Zoom
Watch on YouTube here
Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur: American Sketches: People of a Place at This Time
Nina Berman, Photographer & Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Richard Sharum, Spina America
Dudley Brooks, Moderator
In 2025, America finds itself in a very confused and divided place. 250 years ago, it embarked on the greatest experiment in human history to overthrow the old norms of monarchies and despotic rule. America thrived, evolved, and conflicted during those two-and-a-half centuries.
Today, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address penned 161 years ago is more relevant than at any other time since it was first spoken.
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
Today we are testing whether this nation can long endure. The photographers in this panel will present to us a heartfelt and critical view of what America looks and feels like today.
Dudley Brooks
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Dudley M. Brooks was the Deputy Director of Photography for The Washington Post, where he managed the creative strategy and production of photo-oriented content for the Features, Local and Sports departments. He was also the Photo Editor for The Washington Post Magazine before it was discontinued in 2022. From 2007-2014 he was the Director of Photography and Senior Photo Editor for the monthly magazine Ebony and its weekly sister periodical Jet. These iconic publications chronicled the African American experience for nearly eight decades and Brooks was a key member of the senior staff responsible for redefining the visual prominence and editorial relevance to their international readerships. Brooks was also the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography at The Baltimore Sun newspaper (2005-2007) and the co-creator/director of the landmark 1990 photography book and exhibition Songs of My People: African Americans – A Self-Portrait. This was an international project sponsored by Time-Warner and the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). In 2003 he created and co-directed Imagenes Havana. This event was a five-day exhibition in Havana, Cuba that displayed the work of twenty-five international storytelling photographers. It was supplemented by three days of roundtable forums that addressed the difficulties of documenting the international community, opportunities in photo book publishing, and ethical issues facing the working photographer from a global perspective. Brooks retired from The Washington Post in late 2024.
Nina Berman
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. Her work explores American politics, militarism, environmental issues and post violence trauma. She is the author of Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, (Trolley, 2004) portraits and interviews with wounded American veterans, Homeland, (Trolley, 2008) an examination of the militarization of American life post September 11, and An autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer, 2017) a story told with a survivor of sexual violence which was shortlisted for both the Aperture and Arles book prizes. Additional fellowships, awards and grants include: the World Press Photo Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the Open Society Foundation, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and the Aftermath Project. She started her photographic career in 1988 as an independent photographer working on assignment for the world’s major magazines including Time, Newsweek, Life, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, German Geo, and the Sunday Times Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at more than 100 international. Public collections include the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of the City of New York; the Harvard Art Museums; and the Bibliothèque nationale de France among others. She is a tenured Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she directs the photojournalism/documentary photography program.
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition.
Kashi’s innovative approach to photography and filmmaking has produced a number of influential short films and earned recognition by the POYi Awards as 2015’s Multimedia Photographer of the Year. Kashi’s embrace of technology has led to creative social media projects for clients including National Geographic, The New Yorker, and MSNBC. From implementing a unique approach to photography and filmmaking in his 2006 Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook, to paradigm shifting coverage of Hurricane Sandy for TIME in 2012, Kashi continues to create compelling imagery and engage with the world in new ways.
Along with numerous awards from World Press Photo, POYi, CommArts and American Photography, Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His editorial assignments and personal projects have generated fourteen books.
Richard Sharum
Richard Sharum is an editorial and documentary photographer based in upstate New York. Mainly focusing on socio-economic or social justice dilemmas concerning the human condition, his work has been regarded as in-depth, up-close and personal.
Selected exhibitions include Kyoto, Japan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Reggio Emilia, Italy; New York, Boston, Chicago’ and Dallas. His work is in the permanent collection of the Witliff Center for Documentary Studies, Amon Carter Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and others.
Commissions include The Meadows Foundation, Centers for Community Cooperation, Harvard Law School, Student Conservation Association, Children's Medical Center (Oncology), Children's Cancer Fund.
Publications include those by LFI (Leica International), British Journal of Photography, LensCulture, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Publico (Portugal), El Pais (Spain), Observer (UK), The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian (UK), B+W Photo Magazine, Huck Magazine, Glasstire, PATRON, Creative Review, among others.
Richard Sharum's debut monograph Campesino Cuba was published in 2021 (GOST) and his latest, Spina Americana, was just released in November 2024 (GOST). Richard Sharum is represented by The Hulett Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Julie Winokur
Executive Director, Talking Eyes Media
Julie WinokurJulie Winokur, Executive Director of Talking Eyes Media, has been a storyteller for over two decades, first as a magazine writer and then as a documentary filmmaker. She launched Talking Eyes Media in 2002 as a way to create visual media that catalyzes positive social change. Her work has appeared on PBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and National Geographic. Beyond broadcast and publication, Winokur works extensively with nonprofit organizations to develop their messages and put Talking Eyes' films to work at the grassroots level. She is the co-founder of Newest Americans, a storytelling project about immigration and identity based in Newark, New Jersey, that was named Best Online Storytelling Project in 2020 by Pictures of the Year International. She is also the producer/director of The Sacrifice Zone and Bring It to The Table, both documentary films with extensive impact campaigns. Winokur is a National Geographic Explorer and has been on the faculty of Rutgers University-Newark and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Via Columbia Journalism Review
January 20, 2025
Photojournalists on how the stories they captured reflect the American political story.
"I asked Butow about the significance of a Time cover in the broad media landscape we exist in now. “The influence of podcasters, social media influencers, people doing their own shows—I think that has really diminished the impact of legacy journalism,” he replied. “But in some ways it was a full-circle moment for me, because this is the kind of thing that got me interested in photojournalism when I was in high school.”' --full article here
David Butow's fine art prints here.
November 2, 2024
How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a Fraught History.
White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance. --Click for full article
This photograph is featured in the current Monroe Gallery exhibition "The Best of Us".
October 27, 2024
September 28, 2024
Gallery Photographer David Butow's photographs from the Democratic National Convention are featured in the current The Atlantic article "Tim Walz is too good at this".
Related: "The Campaign" Virtual Exhibition.
Via Field of View (disclaimer: author's past)
September 28, 2024
Excerpted from "The Politic Aesthetic Access is gone. Moments are dead. Long live the flash"
(see also the virtual exhibition "The Campaign"
September 25, 2024
Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to offer a special selection of photographs by Ken Hawkins of Jimmy Carter to commemorate his 100th birthday on October 1, 2024.
Ken Hawkins is a photojournalist who has covered politics, disasters, and conflict zones—including Vietnam, Nicaragua, and El Salvador—since 1970, working globally for publications and agencies such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, the New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. For over two decades, his work was represented by the premier photo agency SYGMA Paris/New York. In 2016, Hawkins authored "Jimmy Carter – Photographs 1970 – 2010", a photographic memoir of his time as a TIME photographer working the Carter campaign and White House.
Please contact the Gallery for print details.
The Carter Center has invited members of the public to contribute photos of themselves alongside birthday messages for the country's oldest living former president. The images make up a mosaic marking the centennial.
September 2, 2024
The Fight for 15 protest in Long Island, NY 2016.
We the People brings together more than three decades of work by photographer Nina Berman who has tenaciously documented the public outrages, injustices, protestations and longings of a deeply dissatisfied and increasingly polarized society. What the United States should be, and for whom, are questions at the heart of Nina’s work and the 2024 election.
September 8th - November 24th, 2024
Opening Reception, Sunday September 8th, 4-6pm
THE CAPA SPACE
2467 Quaker Church Road
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
August 23, 2024
August 20, 2024
The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was the scene of a party in transition, looking toward the future while simultaneously providing a final send-off for President Joe Biden as he officially passed the torch to Vice-President Kamala Harris. Attendees in Chicago greeted still-rising stars such as New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Georgia senator Raphael Warnock with the same fervor as they gave party veterans such as Hillary Clinton, the last woman to be the party’s presidential nominee, who rousted Democrats to “keep going.” Scenes of the convention so far from Mark Peterson for New York Magazine. Full post here.
August 20, 2024
Photographer Nate Gowdy is covering the ins and outs of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago for Mother Jones. Here is a taste of what he saw: protests outside and an electrified delegation inside.
July 19, 2024
"Their images will join others that captured some of the darkest days in U.S. history, such as the famous photo by Bill Eppridge showing a busboy helping Robert F. Kennedy moments after the presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968, and the images by Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds of President Ronald Reagan being rushed to his motorcade after being shot in 1981."'
Bill Eppridge covered Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, see his work here.
Monday, March 18, 2024
Santa Fe, NM - Monroe Gallery of Photography is
honored to announce exclusive representation of acclaimed photographer Mark
Peterson for fine art print sales.
Mark Peterson is a photographer
based in New York City. His work has been published in the New York Times
Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, National
Geographic, Geo Magazine and other national and international publications. In
2018 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith grant for his work on White
Nationalism. His many awards include a first place Feature Picture Story in the
Pictures of the Year International Competition. Peterson’s work has been
featured in numerous exhibitions including his pictures of lowriders shown in
“Museums Are Worlds” at the Louvre in 2012.
He is the author of two books:
Acts Of Charity published by Powerhouse in 2004 and Political Theatre,
published by Steidl in the fall of 2016. His work is collected in several
museums including The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the Museum
Of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2024 Steidl will publish his book The Fourth Wall.
Although often not beautiful, or
easy, Peterson’s images shake and disquiet us; and once seen are etched in our
memories forever. “I like a lot of chaos
in my pictures. I do like to be close to the action. It gives me a feeling of
what is happening. I want to pull back the curtain and show these politicians
as they really are.”
Monroe Gallery will exhibit several examples
of Peterson’s work at the 2024 Photography Show presented by AIPAD in booth
#A52, April 25 – 28, 2024 at The Park Avenue Armory in New York City. On
Thursday, March 21st at 7pm Eastern, The Griffin Museum hosts Mark Peterson for
an on-line conversation about his creative path, his pull to politics and what
it takes to frame his vision as part of the museum’s current focus on power and
perception, democracy and how we see and envision our elected leaders.
"Over the past ten years I have been photographing the presidential candidates as they lead rallies, meet with voters and plead for their votes. I started just before the government shutdown in 2013 at a tea party rally at the U.S. Capitol. Politicians railed against the president and the Affordable Care Act — a show to get a sound bite into the next news cycle."--Mark Peterson
March 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
As part of our current focus on power and perception, democracy and how we see and envision our elected leaders, we are pleased to present the work of Mark Peterson. His stark portrayal of the power players in Washington DC is unique in its vision and we can’t wait to see and hear more about how he gets the images that his lens finds and holds in our collective memory.
Forthcoming exhibition: 1964
April 19 - June 23, 2024
The most pivotal year of the 1960s, arguably, is 1964. That’s the year American culture fractured and eventually split along ideological lines — old vs. young; hip vs. square; poor vs. rich; liberal vs. conservative — establishing the poles of societal debate that are still raging today.
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
On this episode of Refractions, Stephen Mallon is joined by photographer, Mark Peterson.
Refractions: A Conversation with Mark Peterson from B&H Photo on Vimeo.
Mark PetersonJanuary 14, 2023
How Montana Took a Hard Right Turn Toward Christian Nationalism
What happened to a state known for its political independence?
Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times
Ashley Gilbertson is an Australian photographer and writer living in New York. His photograph from the Jan. 6 attack was part of the Times entry that was a finalist in the breaking-news-reporting category of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2022.
Friday, July 22, 5:30 PM (MDT)
In Person and Online
112 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501
A Panel Discussion with David Butow and Nina Berman:
Threats to Photojournalism
On Occasion of Monroe's Gallery 20th Anniversary
For more information go here.
From a dingy motel room in the swing state of Michigan, to the Oval Office, BRINK chronicles the dynamics that unfolded during the 2016 presidential election and led, finally, to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. Photographer David Butow moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Washington, D.C. in 2017 to document what he knew would be a chaotic time in U.S. politics. “While I expected the incompetence, I underestimated the treachery,” he says in the book’s Endnotes.
“Why make a book of photographs from events that overwhelmed many of us in the last four years? We lived through history minute by minute, so much so that the gravitas of what transpired is apparent only when you step back and see how the whole saga unfolded. As revisionists seek to trivialize or downplay the events of 2016-21, it's critical to maintain a record of just how close the presidency of Donald Trump brought U.S. democracy to the brink of collapse.”
