Blind Women, Egypt

Lori Grinker

1995

Photograph featuring four young girls holding onto each other's shoulders walking down the stairs in a train with two older women in the front and back.
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Creator Bio

Lori Grinker

b. 1957

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).

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