Tag: Andrea Star Reese

  • Shocking Images Document the Disturbing Living Conditions of Indonesia’s Mentally Ill – Feature Shoot

    Shocking Images Document the Disturbing Living Conditions of Indonesia’s Mentally Ill – Feature Shoot

    Shocking Images Document the Disturbing Living Conditions of Indonesia’s Mentally Ill – Feature Shoot “Walking in the door has been easy,” says NY-based photographer Andrea Star Reese, whose ongoing documentary inside Indonesia’s mental facilities has taken her into the homes, schools, shelters and hospitals, where hundreds exist in appalling conditions b via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/03/shocking-images-document-the-disturbing-living-conditions-of-indonesias-mentally-ill/…

  • Disorder: Indonesia’s Mental Health Facilities by Andrea Star Reese

    Disorder: Indonesia’s Mental Health Facilities by Andrea Star Reese

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/03/disorder-indonesias-mental-health-facilities-by-andrea-star-reese/#1 Andrea Star Reese is a documentary photographer based in New York. A selection from her series Disorder will be exhibited at the 2013 Visa Pour L’Image Photojournalism Festival held in Perpignan, France from August 31st to September 15th. 

  • Photographer Discovers a ‘Family’ of Homeless Men and Women Living in West Harlem

    Photographer Discovers a ‘Family’ of Homeless Men and Women Living in West Harlem

    Photographer Discovers a ‘Family’ of Homeless Men and Women Living in West Harlem The Urban Cave is the powerful documentation of homeless men and women in West Harlem by Andrea Star Reese. Formerly a filmmaker, Reese began this project when she enrolled in the photojournalism documentary photo program at ICP. One of her assignments wa…

  • Chasing Stigma in Indonesia

    Chasing Stigma in Indonesia

    Chasing Stigma in Indonesia Andrea Star Reese is looking for images of mental illness in Indonesia. But what she’s really chasing is stigma. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/chasing-stigma-in-indonesia/ The photographer Andrea Star Reese dealt obliquely with issues of mental illness in her first project, “The Urban Cave,” on homelessness in Harlem. She is dealing with it…

  • Oslo Photo Festival: On Photojournalism and Survival

    The 5th annual Oslo Photo Festival, which took place from March 16 to 20 in Norway’s capital, hosted talks by photojournalists and documentary photographers Carolyn Drake, Stephanie Sinclair, Pieter Ten Hoopen, Thomas Lekfeldt, Andrea Star Reese, Justyna Mielnikiewicz and Eugene Richards. Speakers offered insights into how they win the trust of subjects, what it takes…

  • Visa Pour l'Image: The Urban Cave – British Journal of Photography

    Andrea Star Reese was unknown to the photography world before “The Urban Cave”, but, with the work forming part of this year’s Visa Pour l’Image, the photographer is now enjoying a success she never found in her previous career as a filmmaker Link: Visa Pour l’Image: The Urban Cave – British Journal of Photography

  • Finding Community in the Shadows – Lens

    Finding Community in the Shadows – Lens

    Finding Community in the Shadows Andrea Star Reese has been photographing homeless people living in Harlem. She talks about her project, “The Urban Cave.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/showcase-190/ For three years, Andrea Star Reese, a former filmmaker, has been photographing homeless people living in West Harlem. Her first project, “The Urban Cave,” will be exhibited…