Join us for lunch and conversation with photographer Nina Berman, whose exhibit "Homeland – Photos by Nina Berman" at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery tells the story of post-9/11 America.
Berman, a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape, is the recipient of 2 World Press awards, a 2006 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2005 grant from the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Fund.
Berman will be interviewed by, Teri Boyd, photo editor of the CITY 2000 project.
This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made online, by email at events@prairie.org, or by calling 312.422.5580.
More about Nina Berman and Teri Boyd
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Ms. Berman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected. She is the recipient of 2 World Press awards, a 2006 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2005 grant from the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Fund. Her first monograph, "Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq," a collection of portraits and interviews with U.S. soldiers wounded in the war, was published by Trolley in 2004 and received wide acclaim. The book was made into a feature length documentary film by the same name and screened worldwide. Her work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Europe. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography.
Teri Boyd is a freelance photo editor, curator and photography agent living in Chicago. She has worked for the Associated Press, MSNBC.com, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, and with the Comer Foundation as projects editor where she edited the CITY 2000 project, and published a book of the work form the project.
This event is co-sponsored by The Public Square, The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, and Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University.
The "Homeland – Photos by Nina Berman" exhibition is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, the Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project, and Roosevelt University’s Department of Communication.
For more information, please call 312.422.5580.