Tag: Michelle Agins

Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin Luther King

Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin Luther King

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.

via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/761200/michelle-agins-on-perseverance-and-photographing-martin-luther-king/

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.

September 20, 2022
On Assignment: Haiti at the Homefront – Lens

On Assignment: Haiti at the Homefront

“All of us would like to run to Haiti and photograph,” said Michelle Agins. Instead, she went to Queens, where Mariana Vasconcellos filmed her at work.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/assignment-24/

“Of course, all of us would like to run to Haiti and photograph,” said Michelle Agins of The New York Times, “but some of us have to stay here and cover it on the local level.”

February 8, 2010