Ed Kashi: A Period In Time | Artist Talk & Book Signing

@ The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to have photographer Ed Kashi for an in-person artist talk and book signing. Join us on Tuesday, June 2 at 6pm in our Main Gallery and learn about Kashi’s recently released photo book, A Period In Time: Looking Back A Period in Time: Looking Back While Moving Forward, 1977-2022. Signed copies will be available for purchase. © Ed Kashi | Cover: Children play around an impromptu bonfire in The Fountain, a Protestant Loyalist housing estate in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, August 11, 1989. © Ed Kashi, Children play around an impromptu bonfire in The Fountain, a Loyalist housing estate in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, August 11, 1989. © Ed Kashi, Young schoolgirls dressed in the traditional Ao Da in Saigon, Vietnam, 1994. Pre-communist fashions have made a big comeback since the late 1980s, when the government began to loosen restrictions on clothing. © Ed Kashi, Settlers perform ritual ablutions in an ancient spring near their village in West Bank occupied territories, 1994. Because this spring was once used by local Palestinians, security is tight. © Ed Kashi, A Kurdish woman stands trial accused of being a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 16, 1991. About A Period in Time: Looking Back While Moving Forward, 1977-2022 A photojournalist records history in the making and captures the human experience around the world. Photographer Ed Kashi’s passion is long-term documentary projects that immerse him in issues that need attention or people’s lives whose struggles warrant concern. He has had a lengthy and varied career with National Geographic and other major magazines, traveling around the world to tell visual stories. Kashi’s archive, now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, houses many of his personal memories and the experiences attached to the creation of those images. More than a simple repository of images, the archive is a growing, thriving, and continually evolving organism, a living library with immense value. Through his photography, Kashi has had an intimate, front-row seat to witness and record major events in history. His work has been a passport to worlds unseen, unveiling issues that need illumination, documenting history in the making, and capturing the human experience and the many awe-inspiring places in our fragile world. A Period in Time is a testimony to some of Kashi’s most memorable stories—people he has been privileged to observe and learn from and the places and narratives that have shaped his life, all captured one moment at a time. About the Artist Ed Kashi is an internationally recognized photojournalist, filmmaker, and educator who has been making images and telling stories for more than 45 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that...