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Blind Women, Egypt
Lori Grinker
1995
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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).
[One] of the most evident features of New York photography has so far not been addressed by writers: the fact that, in every account, the great majority of the photographers concerned were or are Jews…
These are the “prayers” that Brites Henriques recited and the notary transcribed.
Every Morning [Prayers]
Praised be the Lord
Who is so enlightened,
May you, My Lord, be served
By making me…