PNC Sponsors National Geographic Show Featuring Woman Photographers
October 10, 2013 5:00 AM
The exhibit, showcasing the work of 11 photo-journalists, opens in Washington, DC, on Oct. 10 and will travel over the next three years to five other cities where PNC does business.
These 11 women have all had their work published in National Geographic Magazine, which first used female photographers in 1907. But in the magazine's 150-year history, only four women have been hired as staff photographers, compared to 50 men.
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In a forward to a book that accompanies the exhibit, Ann Curry says photographs "have the power to stop time and document life." This one by Jodi Cobb shows prostitutes, known as "cage girls," on a street in Mumbai.
(Image: Jodi Cobb)
The exhibit, meant to celebrate National Geographic's 150 year anniversary, includes this one by Ericka Larsen of reindeer that starved to death in Sweden.
(Image: Erika Larsen)
Lynsey Addario caputured women, mostly widows, training for police jobs in Kabul, Afghanistaan.
(Image: Lynsey Addario)
Carolyn Drake's work in the exhibit is called "Defying Labels," and she says she likes a photo that "draws you in but doesn't give everything away."
(Image: Carolyn Drake)
A photographer may take 65,000 frames and submit just 50 to an editor. Here, Kitra Cahana captured a man, who after working himself into a trance, lept through fire.
(Image: Kitra Cahana)
