Jon Lowenstein (APF – 2008) has compiled his recent work on deportation and immigration into “Shadow Lives.” Jon won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a TED Global Fellowship. He is a member of the NOOR international photo agency, based in Amsterdam. His work can be
Former APF fellow Fred Schulte (’97) examined the White House visitors logs along with co-author Viveca Novak and found huge numbers of visitors were undisclosed. Their report was written for the Center for Public Integrity and is at: http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/04/13/4115/white-house-visitor-logs-riddl….
APF fellow Brian Mockenhaupt’s article on Sgt. First Class Carlos Santos-Silva is featured in the March 2011 issue of Reader’s Digest. Titled, “The Men He Left Behind,” it focuses on the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and their reaction to the combat death of Santos, their
Mark Feldstein’s new book, “Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was reviewed in the Books of the Times. An earlier Washington Post profile was written by Howard Kurtz. A 2009 Alicia Patterson Fellowship
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ new series on baseball, “The Tenth Inning,” features sportswriter Marcos Breton as a commentator for the PBS series. Marcos, along with photographer Jose Luis Villegas, researched Latin American players for their 1996 Alicia Patterson foundation project, “Lost Field of Dreams: The
Benoit Denizet-Lewis wrote a cover story for The New York Times Magazine on “Whatever Happened to Teen Romance?” He also discussed the story on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. He has just signed a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a book about addiction
John Margolies’ photographs were part of a State Department presentation in London, where he gave a talk at the Building Centre Trust. He also lectured at the Seattle Art Museum about his photographs from the American roadside.
Larry Tye’s book, based on his Patterson research, was published by Henry Holt. “Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class” also had book parties at several train stations, including those in Boston and Washington, which honored several of
Donatella Lorch left Newsweek to become director of the Knight International Press Fellowships in Washington. She can now be reached at lorch@icfj.org.
“War Photographer,” a documentary film on JIM NACHTWEY, was nominated this year for an Oscar award in the documentary feature category. Film director Christian Frei followed Jim as he shot images in South Africa, Somalia and Kosovo, using a micro-camera attached to Jim’s camera. The
Roger Atwood’s book, based on his Patterson reports, was published by St. Martin’s Press. It’s titled, “Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World.”
Philippe Wamba, Who Wrote of Life as African and American, Dies at 31 By RANDY KENNEDYNew York Times Philippe Wamba, the son of a Congolese rebel leader, who wrote about his family’s complex and often disorienting dual existence as both Africans and Americans, died Wednesday in
The schools built by Julius Rosenwald, who is the subject of DIANE GRANAT’s Patterson research, were added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 most endangered historic sites. Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., paid for 4,977 schools for black students in
Chris Bull is now senior political correspondent for PlanetOutInc.com, in San Francisco. He writes a column, Bull’s Eye, and continues his interest in baseball, with his office just a few blocks from SBC Park. He co-authored a 2003 book with Billy Bean, “Going the Other
Earl Dotter’s photo essay and article, “Winter Harvest of Danger,” which was based on his Alicia Patterson research, appeared in Maritime Life and Traditions magazine.
EARL DOTTER has produced a CD of his photo exhibit, “When Duty Calls, A Tribute to New York City Firefighters.” The exhibit was shown at the Harvard School of Public Health and was shown at the American Public Health Association’s symposium on Terrorism and Public
Zana Briski’s project of giving cameras to children in India was part of an exhibition of children’s photography at Lincoln Center in New York City. “Outside the Frame,” organized by PixelPress and presented in conjunction with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival included her
EARL DOTTER received the Alice Hamilton Award from the American Public Health Association, recognizing his ” lifetime of service in Occupational Health & Safety” because of his photography documenting the world of work. The award was presented by the Occupational Health Section at APHA’s annual
While working on her photojournalism project on the brothels in India, ZANA BRISKI has been teaching local children how to shoot photographs. Some of their pictures are up on her web site at www.pixelpress.org/contents/zana/.
FRANK CLIFFORD’s book on the Continental Divide Trail is set for publication this spring, by Broadway Books. The work is based on his Patterson year reporting.
