Articles by: Glenna Gordon

Biography

Glenna Gordon is a documentary photographer and photojournalist. She's been commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, and many other outlets. She was the recipient of a World Press Award in 2015, and selected other awards include the LensCulture Grand Prize for Visual Storytelling, PX3 First Prize for Portraiture, and the PDN Annual's Project Award and Book Award, and American Photo 30, 31 and 32. She is also an adjunct professor at The New School in New York. Images featured in this essay are from her monograph, Diagram of the Heart, released by Red Hook Editions in February 2016, and was chosen by the New York Times Magazine, Pictures of the Year International (POYi), and PDN's Photo Annual as a photobook of the year. Images from the project are currently on display from now until September 2016 in “Moving Walls 23: Journeys,” a documentary photography exhibition at Open Society in New York. In her work, Glenna aims to find the unexplored and seldom mentioned, to expand notions of what is possible, and to understand the scale of this world through seeking out its edges. If you would like to purchase Glenna's book, you can do so via Amazon, International book orders can be filled via Red Hook Editions.