Photo By: Thatcher Cook |
It dawned on me the other day that our Photography Lecture Series has been running for almost three years! To celebrate, I wanted to share the first live lecture that was given at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division by Photojournalist and Documentary Photographer, Thatcher Cook! Since
1997, Cook has gone on
assignment for multiple humanitarian aid, non-governmental and
developmental organizations. His work has taken him all over the world
including Cuba, Istanbul, Calcutta, Japan, India... just to name a
few. Within these countries, Cook has photographed topics such as
natural disasters, human illness, and human rights violations.
Perhaps his most inspirational body of
work consists of the images published within his second book, Black
Apple, which depicts the culture in Kyrgyzstan, a country which used to be a part of the U.S.S.R. Cook traveled through
Kyrgyzstan for eight months on a Fulbright Scholarship and documented
the lifestyle of a country still recovering from the downfall of the Soviet
Union. Below is one of the images that Cook shot while photographing a coal mine in Kyrgystan:
Cook, Thatcher. "THATCHER HULLERMAN COOK | ...Visual Storyteller ..." THATCHER HULLERMAN COOK | ... v I S U a L ... S T O R Y T E L L E R ... N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2016.
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