Object Lessons by Nina Berman - Exhibition at the Albany NY Library

Sex trafficking is a worldwide problem, raking in profits of roughly $99 billion dollars per year for traffickers. “Object Lessons” was created by Nina Berman to bring awareness to the pervasive problem of sex trafficking in the Capital Region and beyond. The exhibition depicts the evidence used to try and convict sex traffickers, including victims’ clothing and the weapons used to coerce victims into submission.

Nina Berman said she chose “to investigate the physical evidence as a way to communicate the mechanism of control and the underlying motivations of profit and power that drive perpetrators and imprison victims.”

“Object Lessons” premieres on Friday, March 6, with an opening reception at 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the library’s Washington Ave. Branch. The photo exhibition will be open during branch hours and run through April 18.

Andrea Bruce at SXSW 2020

Andrea Bruce will be on the "Reimaging Storytelling with National Geographic" panel at the 2020 SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on March 13, 3:30pm.

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Sanne De Wilde's and Bénédicte Kurzen's work exhibited at the Cultural Institute for Islam in Paris

From march until december 2020 Sanne De Wilde's and Bénédicte Kurzen's work will be exhibited at the Cultural Institue for Islam in Paris. Their project 'Land of Ibeji' is part of the exhibition 'Beliefs: make and break the invisible'.

Reimagining the American Landscape: Queer Topographics in Nina Berman's Homeland

An examination of Nina's work by scholar Christopher W. Cox "Reimagining the American Landscape: Queer Topographics in Nina Berman's Homeland" is published in the Journal of American Studies

Nina Berman / NOOR

Tanya Habjouqa judging the 2020 PHMuseum Photography Grant

Tanya Habjouqa judging the 2020 PHMuseum Photography Grant Tanya Habjouqa is one of the judges of this year's PHMuseum Photography Grant

Michael Bloomberg and "Stop & Frisk" by Nina Berman

Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination Michael Bloomberg has been under attack from his past actions as mayor of New York City, especially for enforcing the "Stop and Frisk" policy he put in place. ​

​Nina Berman has been documenting NYPD's Stop and Frisk since 2011: "You could spend many nights on neighborhood cop-watch patrols and never see stop-and-frisks, so I looked for other things, too: the anger and outrage and sense of humiliation long after the stop-and-frisk ends. People I met saw stop-and-frisk as part of a broader pattern of police harassment and violence."

Nina Berman / NOOR

Chibok Schoolgirls by Bénédicte Kurzen & Nina Strochlic

Six years ago, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. Where are they now? The 'Chibok girls’ kidnapping sparked international outrage. More than a hundred are still missing. Today the survivors are trying to rebuild their lives. Bénédicte Kurzen was on assignment for National Geographic

Bénédicte Kurzen / NOOR

After Us the Deluge in New York City

Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise Rising Tide will be exhibited in New York City, at the Museum of City of New York. Rising sea levels affect us all. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Rising Tide presents works by Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen that illustrate the dramatic consequences of the climate crisis across the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua-New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, the Netherlands, the U.K., Marshall Islands, Jakarta, Panama, Miami, and in New York.

Kadir van Lohuizen at Columbia Journalism School

Kadir van Lohuizen is a 2020 Columbia Journalism School's visiting fellow and will be screening and talking about his work After Us The Deluge, followed by a Q&A at the school, Thursday, February 27th, at 6pm.

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After Us The Deluge by Kadir van Lohuizen

"After Us The Deluge" looks at the human consequences of the rising sea level. Due to the climate crisis, the glaciers all over the world are retreating and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an alarming pace. The future human cost of rising sea levels are dramatic. The entire country of Kiribati, for example, will have to relocate, while it is estimated that in Bangladesh about 50 million people will need to move from the delta region by 2050. Nobody knows where they will go. The east coast of the USA is experiencing sea level rise which is three-times higher than the global average. It is predicted that major centres such as the Miami beach area will need to be evacuated by 2060.

"After Us The Deluge" provides vivid visual coverage of how the climate crisis is already affecting places where people live, Greenland with its melting glaciers, Kiribati, Fiji, the Carteret islands in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, the Guna Yala archipelago in Panama, the United Kingdom, Jakarta, the Marshall islands, the Netherlands and the United States.

Kadir van Lohuizen will be giving a keynote lecture at Princeton University's Humanities Council, on February 19th.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR