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l came together making up dreams was an experimental documentary type film my first it had images that spoke to the essence of my life my life with and without you your presence at the cemetery or in a box or a book and on a hi8 film where charlie and i interviewed you a month before you died your presence was felt here as i sat at my dining room table and watched the light come in and move over the table across the walls this light its movement the passage of time and the place i came back to a new house in queens we started our lives in queens in a small one bedroom apartment in kew gardens village charlie recalled the address they had you in the dining room and i guess i was in their bedroom at first a nurse came to help audrey and charlie with us we stayed there for my first six months and then moved to the suburbs where we had a backyard our own bedrooms and lots of friends our age to play with i look out the window and see the trees the warm light the moon a plane flying over there s a bunch of young children siblings friends on this block who play together they are sharing our memories noise of ball playing from the playground a house away i hear the same noise i had in my bedroom growing up my window looked out at the backyard with the basketball hoop we were happy there mostly i m happy here there s a big sky and birds singing and we are 15 minutes from manhattan i wish you could visit well in the flesh your presence is felt excerpt from six days from forty a book and vi deo installation text 2015 lori grinker click to enter project enter project consider me in 1951 langston hughes wrote consider me which like most of his poems addressed current social issues today the poem resonates as we are quickly slipping backwards on human rights and civil liberties the news cycle dominated by accounts of racism sexism and homophobia consider me is a portrait series of the people i come across in and around newburgh each person is photographed in my portable pop up studio set up on the street there s no identifying information other than the clothes they wear your experience is as if you were walking towards each other on the street the work is presented as an outdoor installation of life size photographs interspersed with unidentified text panels you walk through the installation read statements and histories but have no idea who is who you won t know the single mom from the woman with stage 4 cancer the detective from the parolee who served time and runs a successful business the tennis teacher from the homeless man the opera prodigy from the girl who helps her mom clean houses in meeting people in newburgh i began to think about my perception of the people we approached on the streets how many times did i get it wrong it is time we all confronted our prejudices of and aversions to people who are different from us consider me aims to do just that dear grinkers this work portrays the dispersal of a single family originally from klaipeda county in western lithuania throughout the world with medium format color film i am telling this story of diaspora with landscapes portraits and still life details taken together the photographs represent my search to understand and represent both my identity and the journey taken by this family over the past 120 years with photographs interviews archival material and text written by cultural anthropologist roy richard grinker this very intimate yet ultimately universal work will reflect many of the key aspects of diaspora as experienced by many families of differing origins and histories the complex relationship between immigrants and their homelands religious change and multiculturalism where one grows up is like a lottery as a young student surrounded by other kids from the same cookie cutter suburb on long island i wondered how cultural national and local identity shapes who we are and if our environment compelled us to become to be a certain way in 2002 i had the opportunity to travel from moscow to lithuania and spend a few days in the villages where my ancestors once lived afterwards i began to retrace in earnest the origins and subsequent movements of my family i began to imagine the what ifs both as a photographer a kind of outsider and as a grinker what if my great grandfather had stayed there what if he had found his way to ukraine or south africa or palestine who would i be now view video click here to know more about the history of this project text by anthropologist roy richard grinker lori s collaborator on dear grinkers grinkiskis skuodas district lithuania hula valley israel village of ylakiai skuodas district lithuania kharkiv ukraine paterson nj kharkiv ukraine outskirts of kharkiv ukraine kharkiv ukraine washington dc hula valley israel hula valley israel kwazulu natal mpl anthony grinker and his wife hildah grinker pietermartizburg south africa daniel grinker front center east london south africa adam grinker ramat hasharon israel richard duke mark simpson lindy grinker simpson new delhi india jenny grinker masurkow and her father berlin germnay noa grinker batzra israel n4 national route near kruger national park south africa mike tyson when i was a student at parsons school of design i decided to do a project about young boxers who lived and trained with cus d amato the legendary boxing trainer on weekends during the semester i stayed with cus and his protégés my main focus was on billy hamm a nine year old boy and a young woman nadia hujtyn who worked out at the gym in hopes of becoming a boxer but there was also a big kid named mike tyson cus and boxing manager jim jacobs told me that mike would be the next world heavyweight champion i was most interested in nadia but people weren t ready for female boxers back then my story on billy hamm ran in inside sports magazine i continued to photograph cus trainees including mike i traveled to las vegas miami atlantic city i began working for sports illustrated i photographed roberto duran and wilfredo benitez i spent time with muhammad ali i worked for don king and al sharpton i did stories with joyce carol oates became a friend of jack newfield i was in my mid 20s and the world of boxing was an exotic land i was interested in who these fighters were and how their lives led them to this path where did they come from what did boxing give them most were poor or like mike came from juvenile detention centers or prison what drew me to the sport was the discipline it requires of body and mind but i also saw grace and compassion later i witnessed what happens when a 21 year old becomes a superstar a sports superstar the celebrities celebrity ultimately my interest lay in a story larger than boxing or an individual athlete stay tuned for the book to be published by powerhouse books afterwar lori grinker s quiet poignant grim vision of war is a document of the ineradicable scars left on combatants all over the world war finds ingenious ways to inflict damage grinker finds ingenious ways to depict it vicki goldberg photography critic for the new york times and author of the power of photography how photographs changed our lives abbeville i am enormously moved and impressed by lori grinker s work it parallels closely much that i have written about and conveys powerfully the principle of what i call a species mentality an outlook and sense of self bound up with a strong awareness of being part of humankind robert jay lifton visiting professor of psychiatry at harvard medical school and author of death in life survivors of hiroshima university of north carolina press this project makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the high cost of war and the men women and children who suffer in it afterwar is one of the most compelling visual projects that i have seen on the subject of war and peace bill moyers broadcast journalist and former press secretary for president lyndon johnson lori grinker reveals to us the wars that never end her photographs bare visions of both sympathy and condemnation they bring war home from the battlefield and give it a human face james nachtwey war photographer and author of inferno phaidon you quickly realize both from her photos and from observing how she works that her level of involvement is out of the ordinary in short lori grinker is one of those special journalists who merits our attention and our support sydney schanberg pulitzer prize winning journalist whose work on the cambodian genocide inspired the film the killing fields the span and scope of war of some of the recent sufferings that human beings have inflicted on one another it is valuable to be reminded of this as we are by these lucid irrefutable pictures susan sontag essayist and author grinker s camera uses the human body as the narrative device to tell of the horrors of war we are asked to look at something which we for the most part see from a distance which we hear about but never have to confront we are asked to look at our own humanity and its inherent contradictions deborah willis chair and professor of photography at nyu tisch school of the arts artist author and curator buy the book colombo sri lanka monrovia liberia belfast northern ireland waco texas chicago il tel aviv israel washington dc hanoi vietnam doncaster england ba vi vietnam moscow russia cotonou benin ireli pays dogon mali havana cuba 9 11 2001 firefighters raise the flag on the morning of september 11 2001 i left my apartment in williamsburg brooklyn on my way to the subway i saw the trade center towers on fire rising over the brooklyn queens expressway i ran back to get my camera gear and began photographing i made my way to the williamsburg bridge and walked to the site of the attack later in the afternoon i was photographing bodies being brought out of the rubble when i noticed three firefighters walk from a sailboat with a flag i ran back inside and up to the second floor of two world financial center leaning on the edge of a bombed out window i photographed as the three firefighters proceeded to raise the american flag over the smoldering ruins from anthropological quarterly volume 75 number 1 winter 2002 social thought and commentary lori grinker s photographs published in this issue were all taken on september 11 2001 aesthetically they are not what we recognize as news photographs but images that in the powerful silence of the small rectangle remind us of what happened at the world trade center in new york city that beautiful sunny tuesday morning they need no captions the images mirror fleeting moments and discrete details sometimes almost mundane that cry out the magnitude of the devastation that has changed the world forever lori grinker s pictures raise questions and express the mood of a nation shocked in the depth of its soul together the photographs form as they accompany the texts a chain of instant personal impressions that narrates in a quiet and subdued fashion that day s horror they become precious tools that allow us to highlight some of the complex psychological and cultural ramifications that few if any could have foreseen robert pledge president and editorial director contact press images view lori s contact sheet of the flag raising through a loupe here iraqi refugee crisis nothing like my home for more about this watch lori on bill moyers journal review by debora kuan art in america june july 2008 lori grinker at nailya alexander at least in iraq you die only once an iraqi refugee zahar one of the subjects of photographer lori grinker s recent exhibition iraq scars and exiles said about seeking refuge in amman jordan after the u s s freedom mission like all these urban exiles she is afraid to reveal her real name to date there are approximately 750 000 such iraqis in jordan 1 5 million in syria and 1 5 million in iraq s kurdish region regarded as enemies by their neighbors and living without work schools or money they are little better off now than before leaving their homes among them are people who helped the u s with their mission and many were happy to receive the u s forces in 2003 grinker said in an interview i want the world especially americans to know that we ve abandoned them these color photographs 2007 for the most part modestly sized at 12 by 18 or 19 1 2 by 25 inches with the exception of clothes drying in window which is 33 by 42 inches offer up harrowing proof of that betrayal one image depicts the wounded arriving on a bus from iraq on their way to receive care from médecins sans frontières doctors without borders another captures 16 year old omer post surgery wheeled out on a hospital bed his arm and shoulder entirely scarred by burns one of his eyelids cracked open to reveal its white he appears dead only the caption in the checklist allowed us to believe otherwise grinker s most haunting images however are her interiors which eschew the more predictable sensationalism of war and its traumas to provide intimate glimpses into the mundane dailiness of brute survival untitled living sleeping room depicts a chamber with couches and armchairs pushed against the walls and every inch of the floor covered by rumpled bedding pillows and cushions from a star shaped ceiling lamp a few deflated pastel colored balloons hang limply the caption informs us that this is where the male members of one family sleep in another image muna 37 whose husband was killed in baghdad in front of their children sits on a bed in the room she shares with the rest of her family behind her in the shadows a garish bugs bunny doll can be seen smiling on a nightstand its kitsch poshlust acquires a subtext of audacity and humiliation when one considers the source of muna and her compatriots liberation another image the mystery of natalie wood which includes a television showing peter bogdanovich s 2004 biopic in a seemingly uninhabited room operates in a similar vein but here hollywood and western cultural hegemony feel not so much offensive as eerie and achingly hollow for more about this watch lori on bill moyers journal amman jordan tuscon arizona jfk airport new york muhammad ali muhammad ali dundee s 5th street gym lori grinker muhammad ali at angelo dundee s 5th street gym in miami beach march 1980 when i learned from jim jacobs the boxing manager that muhammad ali would be training at the 5th street gym in miami i arranged to go down and stay with my mother who lived about 20 minutes away when i arrived at the gym they wouldn t let me in there was a sign on the door that read no women allowed somewhere i have a photograph of that sign i argued my best but didn t get very far i was 23 years old and new at this but was still persistent later that day or it could have been the following day a tv news camerawoman showed up and together we made our case and they let us in muhammad ali and everyone else there was cordial respectful and had no problem with two women being inside i quietly made photographs i 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