Nina Berman

Associate Professor of Journalism

Email: njb22@columbia.edu

Documentary photography; Wounded veterans; September 11; Women under siege; Politics

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.  She is the author of two acclaimed monographs “Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq,” portraits and interviews with wounded veterans, and “Homeland,” an exploration of post September 11 America. Her work has been recognized with awards in art and journalism from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund, Pictures of the Year International, and Hasselblad among others.    She has exhibited still and video work in more than eighty venues including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art 2010 Biennial, and Dublin Contemporary. 

Her work has been featured on numerous broadcast outlets including CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS, BBC, CBC and NPR and has been reviewed on the art pages of New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Aperture, Art in America, Artinfo, Afterimage, the Wall Street Journal, TIME, and Le Monde. Prior to joining the Journalism faculty, she taught documentary photographer at the International Center of Photography, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo, Egypt) Foto Department (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Al Liquindoi, Cadiz, Spain. She received a BA from the University of Chicago and an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.