Join friends, colleagues, and the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipients for an intimate online conversation on February 14 at 7 PM CET that remembers Stanley Greene's life and contribution to photography.
Photo © Stanley Greene/ NOOR
Monday, February 14, 2022
7 PM CET | 1 PM ET
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Stanley Greene was known for his poetic, haunting, and unfiltered images, ranging in visual essays on conflict to stories on SF’s thriving underground music scene. During his career, he was the recipient of five World Press Photo awards, the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Visa d’or Award, the 2004 Eugene Smith Grant, and published six books, Somnambule, Marval, 1990; Open Wound, Trolley, 2003; Stanley Greene n°118: Photo Poche n°118, Actes Sud, 2008; The Road to Ruin, Visa pour l'Image, 2008; his photographic memoir Black Passport, Schilt Publishing, 2009; and The Western Front, André Frère Éditions, 2013.
On Monday, February 14, NOOR and NOOR Foundation hosted an online conversation to remember and celebrate the late photojournalist Stanley Greene. This informal conversation will engage friends, colleagues, and the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipients, Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Tako Robakidze, with the acclaimed photographer’s work and methodology.
This online event was an opportunity to learn about Stanley Greene and interact with his work in a very candid and personal way: through the musings and recollections of his closest companions, and the questions of the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipients.
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Remembering Stanley Greene will include the memories and voices of:
Andrea Bruce, documentary photographer from the U.S. whose work focuses on people living in the aftermath of war, concentrating on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war's wake. For the past five years she has turned her attention to the U.S. to examine how people define and experience democracy. She is a member of NOOR.
Kadir van Lohuizen, photography lecturer and co-founder of NOOR photo agency. He has been a professional photographer since 1988, and has received numerous prizes, including two World Press Photo awards, a Visa D’or for his work in Chad and in 2004 was awarded the prestigious Dutch Dick Scherpenzeel Prize for the best reporting on the developing world.
Nina Alvarez, journalist, documentarian, video photographer and assistant professor of journalism at Columbia University. In her documentary work, she has concentrated on women and girls and the impact of migration.
Nina Berman, American documentary photographer, filmmaker, author and professor at Columbia University in New York City. She was a NOOR member from 2009-2021.
Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipient. b.1988. Black. Alive.
Tako Robakidze, Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipient and documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Tako has dedicated a significant part of her photographic work to voice the stories of the war and the occupation in Georgia and socioeconomic conditions in regions of the country.
Teun Van der Heijden, graphic designer and co-founder of Heijdens Karwei, a graphic design agency based in Amsterdam and New York. Next to running Heijdens Karwei where he has designed award-winning photography books like Black Passport, Diamond Matters, Rape of a Nation, Interrogations, War Porn, among others, Teun is a professor of Visual Design and Hybrid media at the LUCA School of Arts in Genk, Belgium and a faculty member of ICP, the International Center of Photography in New York and mentor of MAPS (Master of Photography and Society) at the KABK Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.
During the early years of his career, Stanley Greene (USA, 1949-2017) produced The Western Front, a unique documentation of San Francisco’s punk scene in the 1970s and 80s. An encounter with W. Eugene Smith turned his energies to photojournalism. Stanley began photographing for magazines, and worked as temporary staff photographer for the New York Newsday.
In 1986, he moved to Paris and began covering events across the globe. By chance, he was on hand to record the fall of the Berlin Wall. The changing political winds in Eastern Europe and Russia brought Greene to a different kind of photojournalism. He soon found himself photographing the myriad aspects of the decline of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Stanley was a member of the Paris-based photo agency Agence VU from 1991 to 2007. Beginning in 1993, he was based in Moscow working for Liberation, Paris Match, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Le Nouvel Observateur, as well as other international news magazines. In October 1993, Stanley was trapped and almost killed in the White House in Moscow during a coup attempt against Boris Yeltsin. He was the only western journalist inside to cover it. Two of his resulting pictures won World Press Photo awards.
In the early 1990s, Stanley went to Southern Sudan to document the war and famine there for Globe Hebdo (France). He traveled to Bhopal, India, again for Globe Hebdo, to report on the aftermath of the Union Carbide gas poisoning. From 1994 to 2001, Stanley covered the conflict in Chechnya between rebels and Russian armed forces. His in-depth coverage was published in the monograph Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Trolley 2003) and in the 1995 publication Dans Les Montagnes Où Vivent Les Aigles (Actes Sud). The work also appeared in Anna Politkovskaya’s book, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (2001). In 1994, Stanley was invited by Médecins sans Frontières to document their emergency relief operations during the cholera epidemic in Rwanda and Zaire. He has covered conflict and aftermath in Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq, Sudan, Darfur, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Lebanon.
Stanley was awarded a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute in 2006. In 2010, to mark the fifth commemoration of Hurricane Katrina - together with Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen - Stanley made “Those who fell through the cracks”, a collaborative project documenting Katrina's effects on Gulf coast residents. The same year, Stanley’s book Black Passport was published (Schilt). In 2012, Stanley was the guest of honor of the Tbilisi Photo Festival and began his project on e-waste traveling to Nigeria, India, China and Pakistan.
Stanley has received numerous grants and recognitions including - the Lifetime Achievement Visa d’Or Award (2016), the Aftermath Project Grant (2013), the Prix International Planète Albert Kahn (2011), W. Eugene Smith Award (2004), the Alicia Patterson Fellowship (1998) and five World Press Photo awards. Stanley presented the Sem Presser keynote lecture at the 2017 World Press Photo Award Festival.
Stanley Greene is a founding member of NOOR. Stanley passed away in Paris, France on May 19th, 2017.