About Elizabeth D. Herman
Elizabeth Herman is a Boston-born freelance photographer and researcher currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She recently returned from a year in Bangladesh as a Fulbright Fellow, researching how politics influence the writing of national histories in textbooks. While there, she continued work on a long-term documentary project entitled “A Woman’s War,” exploring the experiences of female combatants and the impact that war has had on them, both during and after conflict. In addition to Bangladesh, she has completed chapters of the work on female members of the North Vietnamese Army in Hue, Vietnam, female revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and is currently working in the United States on American female veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The work was named a 2011 Finalist of The Aftermath Project, a 2011 Top Finalist of the Fotovisura Spotlight Grant, a 2011 Top Photography Project on Photoshelter, and shortlisted for the 2011 Lucie Foundation Scholarship. Elizabeth was also recently granted the 2012 Tim Hetherington Award to continue the project on women of the Bosnian War this spring.
Elizabeth graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics in 2010. She was active in the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism program, [EXPOSURE], and now serves on the Student Advisory Board of the Institute’s new Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, founded and directed by Gary Knight. Her work has been exhibited in a number of group shows in Boston, New York, and DC, as well as at a solo show at Shadhona Studios in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research and photography have been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," GlobalPost, The Daily Beast, the Independent (Bangladesh), Warscapes, and FotoVisura, and her images from Bangladesh are to be published in the forthcoming book by the Aftermath Project, War Is Only Half the Story, Volume V. Elizabeth runs a blog focusing on the importance of narrative and language entitled The Stories We Tell.
Elizabeth is available for documentary and commercial assignments and is more than willing to travel, both domestically and internationally. Please contact her for rates and details.
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PUBLICATIONS
The New York Times
GlobalPost
The Daily Beast
The Independent (Bangladesh)
Warscapes
War Is Only Half The Story: Vol. V, The Aftermath Project (Forthcoming)
AWARDS
2012: Tim Hetherington Award
2011: The Livingston Awards, Finalist
2011: The Aftermath Project, Finalist
2011: GlobalPost/Open Hands Initiative Fellow
2011: FotoVisura Spotlight Grant, Top Finalist
2011: Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Shortlist
2011: Photoshelter Top Photography Project of 2011
2011: Px3 Paris Photo, Official Selection
2010: Fulbright Fellow, Bangladesh
2010: Critical Language Enhancement Award, Bengali
EXHIBITIONS
2012: “A Woman's War: Bangladesh," FotoVisura Grant Exhibition, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
2012: “A Woman's War: Bangladesh,” Slideluck Potshow DC, Washington DC
2011: “A Woman’s War: Bangladesh,” SOLO SHOW, Shadhona Studio, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011: “The Idea Of Home: Houston,” Tufts University Slater Gallery, Medford, MA
2011: “Women Warriors: Hue, Vietnam,” Tufts University Slater Gallery, Medford, MA
2010: “The Idea Of Home: Shifts in Houston’s Third Ward,” El Dorado Gallery, Houston, TX
2010: “The Last Village: Ajmer, India,” Tufts University Slater Gallery, Medford, MA
2009: “Education for All? Youth Education and Labor in Siem Reap, Cambodia,” Tufts University Slater Gallery, Medford, MA
PRESS
"Tracing Present Scars to Past Scars to Past Traumas," New York Times Lens Blog, 18 May 2012
"Awesome 23-Year-Old Photographer Travels Around the World Interviewing Wartime Women,” Jezebel, 18 May 2012
"Interview: Elizabeth Herman on Bangladesh’s Female Freedom Fighters,” Asia Society, 29 February 2012
“9/11 Taught Differently Around the World, Tufts Grad Finds,” “All Things Considered, 8 September 2011
“The Lessons,” The New York Times, 8 September 2011
“Full Frame: Women Warriors Vietnam,” GlobalPost, 16 January 2011
“Elizabeth Herman: Durga Puja,” The Travel Photographer, 4 January 2011
CONTACT
currently in: Cairo, Egypt
+20 111 36 23457
+1 617 271 4173
elizabethdherman@gmail.com