Mary Berridge, a Conversation about Finding Meaning in Challenging Situations, Nostalgia for the Soviet Life, and Photography

Il y a un presque jour pour jour, Raphael Shammaa réunissait dans une conversation vidéo, les membres du Birthday Club, cinq femmes photographes diplômées de Yale à la même époque. Aujourd’hui, il consacre cet entretien à l’une d’entre elles : Mary Berridge. Dans son travail, elle s’intéresse à la manière dont les gens trouvent un sens à leur vie dans des circonstances difficiles. Elle a été exposée dans de nombreux musées, a reçu de plusieurs prix, le TIME a nommé Mary dans une liste de « 28 femmes photographes américaines méconnues du siècle dernier ».

THIS VIDEO CONVERSATION IS IN ENGLISH ONLY.
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Tracie, From the book A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV

Robin, From the book A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV

Untitled, From the series On the Eve: Moscow 1998

VDNKh, From the series, On the Eve: Moscow 1998

Elise, From the book Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism

Newton, From the book Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism

Graham Wrestling with his Cousin, From the book Visible Spectrum: Portraits form the World of Autism

Remington, From the book Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism

Deer with Moon, Greenway, Cary, NC, From the series Game Lands

Family Fishing, Jordan Game Land, NC, From the series Game Lands

Tree Under Overpass, Greenway, Cary, NC, From the series Game Lands

Deer Bone, Butner-Falls of Neuse Game Land, NC, From the series Game Lands

Mary Berridge is an American photographer whose work has been exhibited in many venues including the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Yale University Gallery of Art and the Princeton University Art Museum. She is interested in how people find meaning in challenging circumstances.

Mary’s photographs have received several awards- among them are: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Siskind Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Documentary Project Fund Award, and a LensCulture Portrait Award. She has published three books: A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV (Running Press, 1997), On the Eve, Moscow, 1998 (Blue Sky Books, 2014)*, and Visible Spectrum: Portraits from the World of Autism (Kehrer Verlag, 2021/22). Visible Spectrum is available via the “Buy Books” link at left. Her photographs have been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, CNN, TIME, Der Spiegel, Raw View, FotoNostrum and The Best of LensCulture. After earning her MFA from Yale and a BA from the University of Michigan, she went on to teach at Princeton University as well as several other colleges and universities.

Mary lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she serves on the board of the NC Autism Society’s Orange-Chatham chapter.

TIME magazine included Mary in a list of « unsung American female photographers of the past century.”

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Birthday Club: a conversation around Yale, Photography and Feminism

http://www.maryberridge.com/