29 March-20 July 2014

Mint Museum Uptown

Diane Cook and Len Jenshel  Green Roofs, 2009	Beverly Joubert The Palm, ca. 2005	Carolyn Drake  The Other Tibet-China's Uygurs, 2009

Women of Vision opened in Washington, DC in October 2013 and will travel to five cities, the first stop being in Charlotte at the Mint Museum in March 2014.  The exhibition showcases 11 female photographers and 99 photographs that cover a variety of subjects. From documenting 21st century slavery, the landscapes of New York, to the Sami reindeer herders, each photographer has captivated viewers with unique and enlightening imagery of the world.  Some photographers are expected to visit Charlotte for a panel discussion during the exhibition's run at the Mint.  

In the News

• Review of the exhibition in Creative Loafing (April 9, 2014) 
• October 10, 2013, Charlotte Observer, "National Geographic Exhibition coming to Mint Museum Uptown in March"

Women of the Exhibition 

• Women of Vision-the exhibition website from National Geographic features short biographies and some of their work
• NPR's Amy Ta, "Behind the Lens with Prizewinning 'Women of Vision'"
• The Photo Society website, a National Geographic Photographer group 

Curator and Senior Photo Editor for National Geographic

• Elizabeth Krist  
• Interview with Andrea Teresa Letorney on Huffington Post
• Webinar: "What Photo Buyers Want: National Geographic's Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist"

Featured Photographers

• Lynsey Addario
• Addario's website 
• An LA Times audio slideshow about Muhajeria, Sudan
• VII The Magazine feature on Addario 

Audio: LIVE from the New York Public Library: Risk Takers: National Geographic and the New Age of Exploration,

featuring Ann Curry and Lynsey Addario

• Kitra Cahana
• Photographer's website
• Infinity Awards 2013 recipient for young photographer 
• Getty Images page for her work on Teenage Brain 
• Getty Images feature page for The Cult of Maria Lionza 
• Maya Hajdu, "Follow the Light: The Photography of Kitra Cahana," Shtetl 2013

Cahana talking about her work that documents a nomadic youth subculture in the US

• Jodi Cobb
• Photographer's website
• Photo.net's Hannah Thiem interview with Jodi Cobb 
• NPR's Neal Conan discuss "Slavery in the 21st century" on Talk of the Nation with Cobb and writer Andrew Cockburn 
• National Geographic feature page for "Slavery in the 21st Century" 
• Diane Cook 
• Diane Cook & Len Jenshel website 
• Feature photographs for National Geographic's piece on the U.S/Mexico border "Our Walls, Ourselves" 

National Geographic Live!-Diane Cook & Len Jenshel: Gardens by Night

• Carolyn Drake
• Artist's website 
• Video about Two Rivers, Drake's photography project about Central Asia she has been shooting and editing since 2007
• Photo-Eye book tease for Two Rivers 
• Feature photographs for National Geographic's "The Other Tibet," a piece about the Uygur people of China 
• Lynn Johnson
• Artist's website 
• A story map of endangered languages, a project in which National Geographic participated entitled "Enduring Voices" 
• Feature photographs for National Geographic's "In the Footsteps of the Apostles" 
• '"Hate Kills': Photographs and Insights from photgrapher Lynn Johnson," Cathy Newman, April 28, 2013, National Geographic Magazine 
• Beverly Joubert
• Joubert's website 
• Derek Joubert and photographs by Beverly Joubert, "Lessons of the Hunt," National Geographic, 2007 
• Wildlife Films website   
• Erika Larsen
• Photographer's website 
• Kerri Macdonald, The New York Times, "Washing Dishes, Herding Reindeer" 
• Book tease for Sami: Walking With Reindeer from Photo-Eye Bookstore

Walking with Reindeer, a video by Erika Larsen in the Nordic Sami region

• Stephanie Sinclair
• Too Young To Wed website dedicated to the issue of child marriage and the work of The United Nations Population Fund 
• NPR's Claire O'Neill, "Picturing Polygamy in America," a photo slideshow and interview with Sinclair about her work documenting the Mormon community
• VII The Magazine feature on Sinclair 
• Maggie Steber
• The Audacity of Beauty, Steber's website dedicated to her work in Haiti 
• Claire O'Neill, "If you teach a man to photograph: Haiti, as seen by Haitians" 
• The Image Deconstructed's interview with Steber on her work about memory

Madje has Dementia, an audio slideshow about Steber's mother

• Amy Toensing
• Toensing's Website 
• Sights and Sounds for National Geographic's "Greetings from the Jersey Shore" 
• Image Deconstructed's Pattie McNab interview about the Murray-Darling Basin drought in Australia   
• Blog with husband Matt Moyer 

Additional Resources from the Mint Museum Library

• America 24/7: 24 Hours, 7 Days: Extraordinary Images of One American Week, New York: DK Publishing, 2003. 
• Belt, Annie Griffiths, Simply Beautiful Photographs, Washington, DC: Focal Point/National Geographic, 2010.
• Cobb, Jodi. Geisha: the Life, the Voices, the Art, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 
• DarfurDarfur: Life/War, New York: Melcher Media, 2007. 
• The Greatest Photographs of the American West: Capturing 125 years of Majesty, Spirit and Adventure, Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2012.
• Newman, Cathy. Women Photographers at National Geographic, Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2000. 
• Twenty-five Under Twenty:Five: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, New York: Powerhouse Books, 2008. 

Check out MARCO for other available resources in the Mint library!

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Created by Rachel Dressel, Intern for Mint Museum Library