Documentary Photography
Own Work
This housing project in Flemingsberg, Sweden is thirty minutes from Stockholm’s medieval Old Town, with its narrow streets and sixteenth- century church steeples. Housing thousands of new immigrants, it is a place where many languages and cultures meet in a physical environment common to none.
Philip Jones Griffiths Exhibit
The exhibit Philip Jones Griffiths: 50 Years on the Frontlines drew huge crowds at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery in the Chelsea section of NYC in 2005. “One of the great tragic portraits in their time, and required viewing in ours.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 9/23/05.
Own Work
This housing project in Flemingsberg, Sweden is thirty minutes from Stockholm’s medieval Old Town, with its narrow streets and sixteenth- century church steeples. Housing thousands of new immigrants, it is a place where many languages and cultures meet in a physical environment common to none.
Philip Jones Griffiths Exhibit
The exhibit Philip Jones Griffiths: 50 Years on the Frontlines drew huge crowds at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery in the Chelsea section of NYC in 2005. “One of the great tragic portraits in their time, and required viewing in ours.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 9/23/05.
Public Transportation
Guide-a-Ride
The technology and marketing innovation that became the industry standard, still gracing the streets of New York City four decades on. “‘New York City’s bus routes will no longer be a streetcar named confusion,’ City Council Carol Bellamy said yesterday as she watched the…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/2/80.
Logistics
How do you keep the world’s most complex urban transit system equipped with the right parts, with minimal waste, in a supply chain characterized by sole sources? “It takes 4,4473 kinds of screws to hold the Transit Authority together, along with 2,235 types of bolts, nuts…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/29/86.
MetroCard
The technology and marketing innovation that represented one of the largest public works projects in US transportation history continues to be used by millions. “When the Mets play the Yankees later this month in New York’s first regular-season interleague games, Yankee…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 6/5/97.
Guide-a-Ride
The technology and marketing innovation that became the industry standard, still gracing the streets of New York City four decades on. “‘New York City’s bus routes will no longer be a streetcar named confusion,’ City Council Carol Bellamy said yesterday as she watched the…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/2/80.
Logistics
How do you keep the world’s most complex urban transit system equipped with the right parts, with minimal waste, in a supply chain characterized by sole sources? “It takes 4,4473 kinds of screws to hold the Transit Authority together, along with 2,235 types of bolts, nuts…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/29/86.
MetroCard
The technology and marketing innovation that represented one of the largest public works projects in US transportation history continues to be used by millions. “When the Mets play the Yankees later this month in New York’s first regular-season interleague games, Yankee…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 6/5/97.
Marketing Communications
Agent Orange Relief
One of the world’s premier marketing communications firms, Ogilvy encourages staff to perform pro bono work. This New York Times ad was designed to support Agent Orange relief by promoting a harrowing book by Philip Jones Griffiths on the victims.
Participatory Photography
Seeing for Ourselves
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 2010 to empower marginalized Americans to take back their own public narrative by documenting their lives photographically.
Unbroken
A major exhibition of participatory photography in 2004 at the Denise Bibro Fine Art gallery in the Chelsea section of NYC heralded the arrival of this school of photography on American shores. “Judging from an unusual visual diary on display in a Manhattan art gallery, the globalization of…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 7/10/04.
Project Lives
The Developing Lives participatory photography program was conducted at the NYC housing authority during 2010-13 by Seeing for Ourselves. It led to a book earning global acclaim, winning multiple awards, and garnering prominent supporters—leading to a restart of city and state funding.
In a Whole New Way
Equipped with a new form of artistic expression that has let them see themselves in a whole new way, hundreds of Americans ensnared in the country’s dominant criminal justice sanction set out to blaze a whole new way to reform. By telling their heartwarming story, this half-hour documentary lifts the veil on probation.
Seeing for Ourselves
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 2010 to empower marginalized Americans to take back their own public narrative by documenting their lives photographically.
Unbroken
A major exhibition of participatory photography in 2004 at the Denise Bibro Fine Art gallery in the Chelsea section of NYC heralded the arrival of this school of photography on American shores. “Judging from an unusual visual diary on display in a Manhattan art gallery, the globalization of…”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 7/10/04.
Project Lives
The Developing Lives participatory photography program was conducted at the NYC housing authority during 2010-13 by Seeing for Ourselves. It led to a book earning global acclaim, winning multiple awards, and garnering prominent supporters—leading to a restart of city and state funding.
In a Whole New Way
Equipped with a new form of artistic expression that has let them see themselves in a whole new way, hundreds of Americans ensnared in the country’s dominant criminal justice sanction set out to blaze a whole new way to reform. By telling their heartwarming story, this half-hour documentary lifts the veil on probation.