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STILL LIFE IN THE SECRET GARDEN
With Maggie Steber
Recorded Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Discover some of the stories behind documentary photographer Maggie Steber’s provocative Guggenheim winning project, the Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, as she reveals the her process for creating still life images and more!
Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and docu-mentary photographer who has worked in 70 countries photographing stories concerning the human condition. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine. Her current personal project is The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, a project differing greatly from her docu-mentary work, and supported by a generous two-year grant from the Guggen-heim Foundation. Her honors include Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, 2020, for commitment to the craft of visual journalism that advances the profession, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, the Lucie Award for Photojournal-ism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, Pic-tures of the Year, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, a Knight Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant. Steber has worked in the small nation of Haiti for 30 years. Aperture published her monograph on Haiti entitled DANCING ON FIRE. Her work is exhibited in dozens of festivals and galleries throughout the United States and overseas, Her photographs are included in the American Women Collection at the Library of Congress, the Guggen-heim Foundation, and the Richter Library. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency. She lives in Miami, FL. And the National Foundation for Young Arts.
Websites: maggiesteber.com
audacityofbeauty.com
*Hosted by Tom A. Smith Director of the Leica Akademie USA.
STILL LIFE IN THE SECRET GARDEN
With Maggie Steber
Recorded Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Discover some of the stories behind documentary photographer Maggie Steber’s provocative Guggenheim winning project, the Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, as she reveals the her process for creating still life images and more!
Maggie Steber is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018, and docu-mentary photographer who has worked in 70 countries photographing stories concerning the human condition. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine. Her current personal project is The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma, a project differing greatly from her docu-mentary work, and supported by a generous two-year grant from the Guggen-heim Foundation. Her honors include Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, 2020, for commitment to the craft of visual journalism that advances the profession, Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2019, the Lucie Award for Photojournal-ism 2019, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, Pic-tures of the Year, Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, a Knight Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant. Steber has worked in the small nation of Haiti for 30 years. Aperture published her monograph on Haiti entitled DANCING ON FIRE. Her work is exhibited in dozens of festivals and galleries throughout the United States and overseas, Her photographs are included in the American Women Collection at the Library of Congress, the Guggen-heim Foundation, and the Richter Library. She is affiliated with VII Photo Agency. She lives in Miami, FL. And the National Foundation for Young Arts.
Websites: maggiesteber.com
audacityofbeauty.com
*Hosted by Tom A. Smith Director of the Leica Akademie USA.
