We are delighted to announce that Nina Berman joined Noor. Nina is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Her work, to be integrated on our website and archive soonest, has been widely recognized with awards and has been the subject of exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide.
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, widely published and exhibited, with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.
Her work has been recognized with awards in art and journalism from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund and the World Press Photo Foundation. She is internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military, and her Marine Wedding portrait showing a disfigured marine and his bride on their wedding day, is considered an iconic image from the Iraq war.
She is the author two monographs Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, Trolley, 2004 and Homeland, Trolley, 2008. Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, London and Berlin. She is a contributing photographer for Mother Jones and has worked for top editorial clients including TIME, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Colors, German Geo, National Geographic, Fortune, and Marie Claire.
She frequently lectures on photography, conducts workshops and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in her hometown of New York City.
Education
University of Chicago, B.A. English 1982
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S. 1985
Solo Shows
2009 Side Gallery, New Castle, England
2009 Gage Gallery/Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
2009 War Photo Ltd, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2009 ArteFoto 2009, Ancona, Italy
2008 Cicero Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008 Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City
2008 Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France
2008 Elon University, Elon, North Carolina
2007 Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City
2007 Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York
2007 Green Door Studio, Burlington, Vermont
2007 Columbia School of Social Work, New York City
2007 Suny Potsdam, Crumb Library, Potsdam, New York
2007 Galerie Cerami, Charleroi, Belgium
2006 University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 Trolley Gallery, London, England
2006 University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii
2005 National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2004 Gladstone Building, Oakland, California
2004 Redux Gallery, New York City
Selected Group Shows
2009 New Orleans Museum of Art, "The Art of Caring," New Orleans, Louisiana
2009 Houston Center for Photography, "Unite and Untie," Houston, Texas
2008 Wellcome Collection, "War and Medicine," London, England
2008 Stephen Cohen Gallery, "Images of War," Los Angeles, California
2008 Photokina, Visual Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2008 Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
2008 Bumbershoot, "Power of One," Seattle, Washington
2008 Benham Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2008 Fovea Editions, "Frontlines", Beacon, New York
2008 Portland Art Museum, "New on the Wall," Portland, Oregon
2008 Massachusetts College of Art, "War Stories," Boston, Massachusetts
2008 Jen Bekman, "Ne Plus Ultra", New York City
2007 Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007 Musee de l’Art Wallon "Icare", Liege, Belgium
2007 Mark Di Suvero Peace Tower, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France
2007 Boca Raton Museum of Art, "Thy Brother’s Keeper" Boca Raton, Florida
2007 Nathan Cummings Foundation, "The Big Picture," New York City
2006 Spool Mfg - Overload: Photographing the Iraq War, Johnson City, New York
2006 Flint Institute of Arts, "The Human Condition", Flint, Michigan
2006 Chicago Cultural Center, "Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art"
2006 Open Society Institute, "Moving Walls," Washington D.C.
2005 Deutsche American Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
2005 World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam, 2005
2005 Smack Mellon Gallery, "War," Brooklyn, New York
2005 Provisions Library, "War", Washington D.C
2005 Open Society Institute, "Moving Walls," New York City
2005 Foto&Photo, Cesano Maderno, Italy
2004 Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France
2002 Musee de L'Elysee "New York after New York", Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 Palazzo Isimbardi, "9-11", Milan, Italy
2000 Museum of the City of New York, "New York Now 2000"
1997 Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France, 1997
1993 United Nations, "Faces of Sorrow", New York City
1991 Henry Street Settlement, "On the Edge." New York City
Grants, fellowships, honors
2009 Hasselbald Masters Finalist
2009 PDN Photo Annual Book Award
2007 World Press Photo Foundation
2007 Pictures of the Year Award
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship
2005 World Press Photo Foundation
2005 Open Society Institute Documentary Grant
2005 American Photo – 100 most important people in photography issue
2005 Days Japan International Photo Award
2003 American Photography Annual
2002 American Photography Annual
2000 Communication Arts
1999 Pictures of the Year
1999 Communication Arts
1998 Emma Award
1998 Pictures of the Year
1998 Communication Arts
1997 Pictures of the Year Award
1993 Pictures of the Year Award
1987 Finalist Livingston Award
Visiting Artists Lecture Venues
Baruch College
Columbia University
Empire State College
International Center of Photography
John Jay College
Kutztown University
Massachusetts College of Art
New York University
Northern Virginia Community College
Pratt Institute
School of Visual Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
Susquehanna University
University of Michigan
USC Annenberg
Press –Reviews, interviews
2009
Leica Fotagrafie International, Homeland Portfolio, March, 2009
New City Art, Michael Weinstein, Homeland Review, March 2, 2009
Chicago Tribune, Alan G. Artner, Homeland Review, February 27, 2009
Chicago Public Radio WBEZ, Conversation with Nina Berman, February 13, 2009
2008
The Times, Joanna Pitman, Homeland, December 4, 2008
American Photo, David Schonaeur, Interview, December 3, 2008
AlterNet.org, Lindsay Beyerstein, Interview, November 22, 2008
New Statesman, Carla Power, Homeland Review, November 20, 2008
La Repubblica delle Donne, Mario Calabresi, Homeland Review, October 18, 2008
La Libre, “L’image entre info et com,” Marc Bodson, Review, September 9, 2008
British Journal of Photography, Homeland, Olivier Laurent, September 8, 2008
Le Monde, “Une guerre joyeuese et factice,” Claire Guillot, September 3, 2008
Photoworks, John S. Weber, Homeland Portfolio, Autumn/Winter, 2008-9
Aperture Magazine, Mary Panzer, Essay, Summer, 2008
Art in America, “Rules of Engagement,” Marcia E. Vetrocq, June 2008
The Oregonian, Brian Libby, Review, March 26, 2008
Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, Review, February 21, 2008
BBC, "The World", Alex Gallafent, February 6, 2008
Afterimage, Jen Saffron, Review, Jan/Feb 2008
2007
WNYC, Leonard Lopate, Interview, November 26, 2007
Le Monde, Sylvain Cypel, Review, September 14, 2007
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Mary Thomas, Preview, September 7, 2007
St. Petersburg Times, Jim Verhulst, Perspective, September 2, 2007
DerSpiegel Online, Marc Pitzke, Review, August 30, 2007
Agence France Press, James Hossack, Feature, August 26, 2007
International Herald Tribune, Holland Cotter, Review, August 24, 2007
Time Magazine, Richard Lacayo, Arts Blog, August 22, 2007
New York Times, Holland Cotter, Review, August 22, 2007
Ojo de Pez, 10 Cover, June 2007
PBS, Bill Moyers Journal, May 11, 2007
Photo District News, Sarah Coleman, Feature, May, 2007
Dallas Morning News, Interview, April 8, 2007
Ottawa Citizen, Interview, April 8, 2007
Staten Island Advance, Michelle Maskaly, Feature, March 19, 2007
Salon, Lyndsay Beyerstein -- Interview, March 10, 2007
2006
Baltimore Sun, Glenn McNatt, Review, December 10, 2006
Baltimore Examiner, Emily Campbell, Review, December 2, 2006
Ibyen.Dk (Politiken), Birgitte Kjaer, Feature, November 29, 2006
Clamor Magazine, Cover and Feature, September 2006
WFUV, "City Scape," August 19, 2006
Satya Magazine – Feature, Summer 2006
Vibe Magazine – Feature, May 2006
Illinois Issues, Bethany Carson, Feature, April 2006,
Honolulu Weekly, Peter Serafin, Feature, February 8, 2006
WBAI Radio, "Wake Up Call", NYC February 7, 2006
Honolulu Star Bulletin, Rod Thompson, Feature, February – 2, 2006,
C-SPAN – Book TV – December 24, 2005, January 1, 2006
2005
Newark Star Ledger, Dylan Foley, Feature, December 4, 2005
Chicago Sun Times, Misha Davenport, Review, November 11, 2005
Monthly Review, William Ayers, Feature, November 1, 2005
NPPA Magazine, Stephen Wolgast, Review, September 2005
Rangefinder Magazine, A.K. CRUMP, Review August 2005
The Oregonian, Review, July 22, 2005,
University of Chicago Magazine, Amber Lee Mason, Review June 2005
CBS TV Evening News, Interview, May 28, 2005
SCPR, Andy Thomas Show, South Carolina Public Radio, May 26, 2005
PBS TV NOW, Feature, May 13, 2005
PBS TV Lehrer News Hour, May 4, 2005
NOS TV, Holland, Interview, April 23, 2005
WGNU Radio – Liz Brown, St. Louis, April 20, 2005
Cleveland Free Times –Joshua Green, Review, April 6, 2005
New York Times - Holland Cotter, Review, March 18, 2005
TV Asahi – Japan – March 17, 2005
Brooklyn Rail Yard - Nick Stillman, Review, March 2005
Open Democracy - Feature, March 2005
Seattle Times – Review, February 13, 2005
CBC TV – Canada "The Hour", Interview, February 2, 2005
WUSB Radio, Mort Mecklosky, Stony brook, NY, January 24, 2005
KBMS Radio, Opio Sokoni, Portland, OR. January 19, 2005
WBAI, Rise-up Radio, NYC, January 13, 2005
2004
National Catholic Reporter, Demetria Martinez, December 10, 2004
WDCF Radio, Henry Raines, Tampa, FL, December 16, 2004
Digital Journalist, Peter Howe, Feature, December 2004
Crosswinds Weekly, Cover Story, November 11-18, 2004
Antiwar.com, Michael Austin, Review, November 2, 2004
Days Japan, Feature, November 2004
Photo District News, Review, November 2004
MotherJones.Com, Tucker Foehl, Feature, October 28, 2004
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 23, 2004
Newsweek.com, Karen Fragala, Interview, October 21, 2004
Peacereporter.org - Alessandro Ursic, Review October 18, 2004
Saturday Telegraph, England, Feature, October 17, 2004
Volkskrant/Holland, Feature, October 9, 2004
KGO TV Evening News – October 6, 2005
Los Angeles Times, John Needham, Review, October 5, 2004,
Alternet.org, Evan Derkacz, Feature, October 5, 2004
VPRO/Holland – Cover, October 2, 2004
Amsterdam News, Jimmie Briggs, Review, September 16, 2004
ABC TV - "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, September 12, 2004
NY Press - Alexander Zaitchik review, September 8, 2004
The Record, New Jersey, Jeffrey Page review, August 24, 2004
American Photo – Feature, September/October 2004
Harvard Nieman Report – Feature, Summer 2004
TIME.Com- Flash Movie Feature July 19, 2004
Mother Jones – Feature, March/April 2004
CBS Sunday Morning, Interview, March 14, 2004