Jun 24 Watch 5:08 Shirin Neshat translates Iranian political unrest through an artistic lens By PBS NewsHour For Shirin Neshat, "art became a kind of an excuse to build a relationship, even from a distance," to her homeland and history. Neshat grew up in pre-revolutionary Iran, then came to the U.S. as a student in the 1970s… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 1:25 Photographer uses camera to reconnect with homeless father By PBS NewsHour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, what happened when a photographer who documents the lives of Hawaii's homeless learned that her own father was living on the streets of Honolulu. Continue watching
May 21 Watch 4:46 Photographers chase Yosemite’s rare moonlight rainbows By PBS NewsHour On a clear night in Yosemite, only a few times each year, the full moon hits a misty spray of the highest waterfall in the park, creating a nighttime rainbow that is visible only through a camera lens. But this… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 4:59 Photographer Alec Soth looks for where Americans find community By PBS NewsHour What does community look like in America today? Photographer Alec Soth spent two years crisscrossing the country, capturing images of Americans finding connection. Jeffrey Brown talks to the Minnesota photographer about his new book, titled “Songbook,” plus going back to… Continue watching
May 08 ‘Just me and Allah’: Photographer seeks to capture diversity of Islam By Elisabeth Ponsot Photographer and editor Samra Habib's work is chronicled on the Tumblr, "Just me and Allah" and is being showcased at an exhibit this weekend at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in New York City. Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch 7:06 Photographer connects Armenians displaced around the world By PBS NewsHour One hundred years ago this week, thousands of Armenians were rounded up in modern-day Turkey and deported or executed -- just the beginning of a mass elimination of Armenian Christians. Margaret Warner sits down with Armenian-American photographer Scout Tufankjian, who… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 4:28 Photographer Gordon Parks’ hunt for childhood friends reveals 1940s black life under segregation By PBS NewsHour One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of a photography exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that focuses on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s. WGBH's Jared… Continue watching
Mar 27 Photos: Exhibit allows a glimpse at Cuba, forbidden to Americans for so long By Victoria Fleischer New York's Robert Mann gallery opened “The Light in Cuban Eyes,” a two-month long exhibit of 24 Cuban photographers. The exhibit is an offshoot of a book by the same name, which showcases 50 artists and was published earlier this… Continue reading
Mar 07 50 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ see photos of Selma then and now By News Desk In Selma today, the town of about 20,000 people is roughly 80 percent black and more than 40 percent of residents live in poverty. Continue reading
Mar 03 Your selfie stick is no longer welcome at the Smithsonian By Justin Scuiletti Hoping to take a selfie with the Hope Diamond or a recreation of a NASA space module on a visit to a Smithsonian museum? Go right ahead. However, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way. Continue reading