Stanley Green began his career as a painter and segued to photography in the course of taking photos to catalog his work. After studying the craft, the NY native held various jobs, including at Newsday and as a Paris fashion photographer, before turning his attention to devastation in Rwanda, Somalia, Iraq and other locales. Acclaimed for his book Open Wound on the conflict in Chechnya, Greene documents U.S. Gulf Coast residents’ struggle to rebuild their lives after Katrina in the exhibition “Those Who Fell Through the Cracks.”
Link: Tavis Smiley . Shows . Stanley Greene . July 5, 2010 | PBS