Emily Schiffer
emily@emilyschiffer.com
www.emilyschiffer.com
www.myviewpoint.org
MOST RECENT STORIES
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Back on the Block - Andy & Tata : Part 5. A Gap Life
Brenda Ann Kenneally
2007 - 2010
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The Tribe
Steven Zeswitz
March, 2010
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Invisible: The crisis of LGBT Youth Homelessness
Samantha Box
March, 2010
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Cheyenne River
Emily Schiffer
June, 2010
VINTAGE/PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
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Hip Hop By All Means Necessary
Brenda Ann Kenneally
December, 2007
SERIES
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Back on the Block - Andy & Tata
Brenda Ann Kenneally
5 parts
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Back on the Block - Moya
Brenda Ann Kenneally
2 parts
CONTRIBUTORS
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Brenda Ann Kenneally
8 Stories
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Steven Zeswitz
1 Story
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Samantha Box
1 Story
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Emily Schiffer
1 Story
LINKS
Incarceration Clock
As of --:--:-- -.-. today, there are an estimated -,---,---, people in U.S. prisons and jails.
(Source: Prisonsucks.com: Research on the crime control industry.)
The Real Cost of Prisons Project
The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration.
Million Dollar Blocks
The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s biggest cities.
B. 1980.
In 2003 Emily Schiffer received her BA in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot.
Awards include:
- 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture
- 2010 winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category
- 2009 Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation
- 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Photography
- Recognition as one of the top ten portfolios for the 2007 Leica Oskar Barnak Award.
Emily has exhibited her photographs internationally. Publications include: Smithsonian Magazine, PDN, and BURN Magazine.
Her work is in the permanent collections of The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, Foto Baryo, Philippines, and The Center for Fine Art Photography,
US. Emily lives in Brooklyn, NY and is available to work internationally.
Stories by Emily:
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Cheyenne River
June, 2010
Empowered by the safety of this small town, children explore freely and develop a community of young people that operates largely without adult intervention.