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Robert Gerhardt

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Covers:  Photography, Photojournalism, Press Freedom, Civil Rights, Social Justice
Photojournalist | Journalist, Blind Magazine | Freelance Arts Writer, New York Amsterdam News | Freelance Contributor, The Trace | Member FCC HK | Member NPPA

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Robert Gerhardt’s Biography

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I’m an internationally minded photographer and writer currently based in New York City. For more than 20 twenty years, I have worked as a photographer in the documentary, photojournalism, corporate, and cultural heritage fields. I have extensive experience in image editing; pitching original stories; collaborating with editors and photographers; project researching; interviewing; and licensing and sourcing photographs.

I’m a diehard news junkie with an avid interest in current events and intern…

Robert Gerhardt’s Journalist Portfolio

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Steve Schapiro's Jazz Years: Before Baldwin, Before the Movement

Steve Schapiro's Jazz Years: Before Baldwin, Before the Movement

When he was 81, photographer Steve Schapiro began sorting through the negatives in his archive. In the proces…

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When Ukrainian Women Soldiers Document their War

When Ukrainian Women Soldiers Document their War

A new book entitled Through Her Eyes was created by six Ukrainian women who were civilians before the Russian…

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Photographer William Meyers documents 25 years of NYC life in new book, 'Civics'

Photographer William Meyers documents 25 years of NYC life in new book, 'Civics'

Photographer William Meyers' new book "Civics" captures the everyday public service and neighborly support th…

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The Center for Photography at Woodstock's First Upstate Photography Biennial

The Center for Photography at Woodstock's First Upstate Photography Biennial

This summer, the Center for Photography at Woodstock has launched the first Upstate Photography Biennial, a l…

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'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures': A trove of jazz photo treasures finally sees the light

'Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures': A trove of jazz photo treasures finally sees the light

This new book presents nearly 200 beautifully printed photographs and tells the story of the largely unknown …

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Photog's decade's-long career is love letter to urban spaces and community

Photog's decade's-long career is love letter to urban spaces and community

The Bronx Documentary Center is presenting a comprehensive survey of Martha Cooper’s nearly six-decade career…

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Steve Schapiro’s Jazz Years: Before Baldwin, Before the Movement

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Among my collections photography books in my New York City apartment, one of my treasures is a large format limited edition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time with photographs by Steve Schapiro that was published in 2017. Schapiro had followed Baldwin for LIFE magazine, and his work documenting the Civil Rights Movement was published widely and is in numerous museum collections. Schapiro’s photographs of Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement have always struck me.
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When Ukrainian Women Soldiers Document their War

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| Blind Magazine
“I could never have imagined that at 17 I would witness a full-scale war, that at 19 I would begin documenting it, and that every year I would hear about the deaths of people I once knew and photographed,” photographer Marlia Taran tells. At just 22 years old, the young woman has seen more than most people will see in a lifetime.
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The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s First Upstate Photography Biennial

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Morgan Gwenwald’s series “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” was originally her BFA thesis project, where she photographed fellow members of a lesbian feminist collective as she taught them how to shoot rifles in the nearby woods against the backdrop of the 1970s liberation movements. But in the end, the work was rejected by the program, and she turned away from the art world, but did not stop photographing.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

I first learned how to type on a typewriter before my family had a computer when I was in 7th or 8th grade.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Nick DelCorso

What's your favorite drink?

Would have to go with coffee, preferably New York street cart coffee. I'm not fancy in that regard