American photojournalist Lori Grinker began her career documenting the rise of the thirteen-year-old future heavyweight championship boxer Mike Tyson. Her work includes reportage of the destruction of the World Trade Center, and since 2004 she has documented the plight of Iraqi refugees. Grinker’s work has appeared in GEO, Stern, and Time. A member of Contact Press Images since 1988, she has received a World Press Photo Foundation Prize (1997), a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship (1998), and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1999).
The bathroom looked as though some spiteful thug had left his calling card after having robbed the house. As my father was tended to and he was what counted, I would just as soon have nailed the door…
Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
Wooden synagogues were a distinctive style of vernacular architecture that first developed in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century and then flourished in the…