Educator | Fred Ritchin | BursaPhotoFest 2012

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Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and co-director of the NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights educational program. Previously the picture editor of the New York Times Magazine (1978-82), executive editor of Camera Arts magazine (1982-83), and founding director of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography (1983-86), Ritchin has written and lectured internationally about the challenges and possibilities implicit in the digital revolution.

Ritchin is also the founding director of PixelPress, an organization that has published multimedia projects experimenting with virtual and non-linear photojournalistic and documentary work. PixelPress has collaborated with many humanitarian organizations on issues such as a global attempt to end polio, progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the promulgation and explanation of the crimes of war, and the photographic vision of children in a Rwandan orphanage. PixelPress also featured an online publication combining documentary and new media strategies, including a collaboration with photographer Gilles Peress for the New York Times first multimedia piece, entitled “Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace”, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in public service in 1997.

Books

After Photography: W.W. Norton & Co. (December 17, 2008)
In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990 [reissued 1999]). *Co-author of An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado(Aperture, 1990)
In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989)
An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastião Salgado (Aperture, 1990).
Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, 1850-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993).

Essays

Essays by Ritchin appear in the following publications:

Photo Video: Photography in the Age of the Computer (1991)
A New History of Photography (1994)
National Geographic Photos: Milestones (1999)
Sahel: Man in Distress (2004)
Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers on the Vietnam War (2005)
The Critical Image (1990).
Felice Beato: Photographer of the Eastern Road (2010)
The Uncanny Familiar: Images of Terror (C/O Berlin, 2011)

Exhibits Curated

Contemporary Latin American Photographers (1987)
An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (1990)
The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: Twelve Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition (1991)
Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850-1990 (1992)
Chasing the Dream (United Nations, 2005)
Bodies in Question (New York Photo Festival; NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 2010)
What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page (Aperture Foundation, 2011)
Revolution: Photographs from Libya (NYU Gulf and Western Gallery, 2011)

Awards

Markle Foundation grant (1993–1994)
Presidential Fellowship for Junior Faculty (1994)
David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence (1995)
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service by the New York Times for the Web site, “Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace”(1997).
Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1999) for future web project “Witnessing and the Web: An Experiment in Documentary Photography”

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