culture in nyc

Anyone on Madison Avenue between 65th and 66th from now til October 24th, should pause and look at Jane Evelyn Atwood's photographs in the window of the L. Parker Stephenson Gallery. To go inside and see the rest, you need to make an appointment. She's a wonderful photographer and a friend of mine. Following is her CV.

Jane Evelyn Atwood's projects engage with closed communities, formed through trauma and adaptation.  Through years of immersive exploration, often spanning multiple continents, Atwood offers complex perspectives on the lives of prostitutes, incarcerated women, landmine victims, blind children and others similarly excluded by social or physical conditions. Her photographic engagement with those who have been affected directly by these situations is at an intimate, visceral level. 

Atwood was born in New York and has lived in France since 1971. She was the first recipient of a W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant in 1980 and a year later the International Center of Photography hosted her first solo exhibition. Since then, her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, the US and North Africa including a major retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 2011. Thirteen monographs have been published on Atwood’s œuvres and her photographs are in numerous public collections in France, the United States and in Scotland.