Pfc. Adam Zaremba by Spring HS Nina Berman

Nina Berman
Currently residing in New York, NY

website: http://www.ninaberman.com

Work Statement
I'm a documentary photography interested in the American political and social landscape. I started as a writer wanting to tell stories but found myself increasingly frustrated with the act of writing and would edit myself into oblivion. I chose instead to make images because I felt the process was inexact and I enjoyed not knowing for sure if what I felt and hoped to convey actually came through in the photograph. Now I intentionally seek the ambiguity of a photograph's meaning and welcome the conversation generated by imagery that has multiple interpretations. I have no formal training other than a dark room course long ago at the New School. I am submitting images of those wounded in wartime. I made the photographs in an attempt to explore the myths of warfare and offer images that strip the warrior of heroic sentiment.

Bio
I was born in NYC. I was moved by my parents when I was in grade school to the suburbs of New Jersey for the excellent public schools which I thoroughly despised and left high school early. I went to college at the University of Chicago where I started taking pictures inspired by the work of filmmakers, photographers and writers. I returned to New York, got a journalism degree at Columbia University, and have worked as a freelance photographer for magazines ever since. I've won a few big photojournalisim awards, an Open Society Institute grant and a NYFA fellowship.