about

Stanley Greene was born in New York in 1949, and as a teenager was a member of the Black Panthers, an anti-Vietnam War activist and a
founding member of SF Camerawork, an exhibition space for avant-garde photography.

Stanley studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and at the Image Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An encounter with W. Eugene Smith turned his energies to photojournalism. Stanley began photographing for magazines, and worked as temporary staff photographer for the New York Newsday. In 1986 he moved to Paris and by chance he was on hand to record the fall of the Berlin Wall, which made him a much-sought-after photojournalist.

While working for the Paris-based photo agency Agence Vu in October 1993, he  was trapped and almost killed in the White House in Moscow during a coup attempt against President Boris Yeltsin. He has covered the war-torn countries Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq, Somalia, Croatia, Kashmir, and Lebanon.

Stanley has photographed in the former Soviet Union, in Central America, in Asia and in the Middle East. He made a great impression with the photo book "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003", published by Trolley.[Read more]
He has won five World Press Photo awards for his work around the world and he won the W. Eugene Smith Award in 2004.

Stanley was awarded a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute in 2006. His book Black passport was published in 2010 and published by Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam. [Read more|

In the summer of 2010, to mark the fifth commemoration of Hurricane Katrina, Stanley exhibited images of Katrina’s devastation and the aftermath in a truck-exhibition that drove from Houston to New Orleans in collaboration with Kadir van Lohuizen. He  continues to cover important world events.

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Stanley's black and white silver prints are printed by Nathalie Lopparelli's Atelier Fenêtre sur Cour, in Paris. In her long career, Nathalie has printed for Brassaï, William Klein, Gérard Rondeau, was the personal printer of Sébastiao Salgado and has worked extensively for Magnum.

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books

Black Passport (2009). By Stanley Greene, Compiled by Teun van der Heijden. Published Schilt Publishing, the Netherlands. Click here te see more info about this book.

Katrina - An Unnatural Disaster, The Issue # 1 (2006). By Stanley Greene, Kadir Van Lohuizen, Thomas Dworzak and Paolo Pellegrin. Essay by Jon Lee Anderson. Published by Mets & Schilt, Holland.

Open Wound: Chechnya 1994 to 2003. Published by Trolleybooks, Italy, 2003. Click here to see more info about this book.

Dans les montagnes oû vivent les aigles, 1995. Together with photographer Anthony Suau and journalist Bernard Cohen. Published by Actes Sud, France.

Sonnambule. First published in 1990 and republished as a paperback in 1993. Published by Marval,  France.

films

Chechnya Lullaby, 2000
Produced and directed by Nino Kirtadz'e, Georgia, France

collections

The National Library, The Lausanne Museum.

grants and awards

Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant (2004)

Open Society Institute (2006)

Alecia Patterson fellowship (1998)

Pictures of the Year

Prix Scam Roger Pic
“Chechnya, The Open Bleeding Wound.” 2002

World Press Photo, 2001
“The Forgotten Victims of the Chechen War” (Third Prize, “Portraits”) (2000)

The Prix Bayeux of War photographers
“Forgotten Victims,” 2000

Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship
Award given to document the Caspian Sea region and the search for oil, 1998

World Press Photo, 1993 for reportage on “Moscow Putch” (Second Prize for “Spot News,” and Third Prize for “General”)

solo exhibitions

2010 Centre d'Art Contemporain de Saint-Restitut, France
        "Work from Chechnya to Afghanistan"

2009 Visa pour l'Image, Prepignan, France
        ''Western Front"

2009 Atri Festival, Atri, Italy.
        "Stanley Greene: a retrospective"

2009 Transphotographiques, Lille, France
         "Chalklines"

2008 Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
        "Road to Ruin"

2004 La Chambre Claire, Paris, France
        “Plaie à Vif - Tchétchénie 1994 à 2003”

2004 Vu' La Galerie, Paris, France
        “Fragments de guerre”

2004 Moca - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
        “Sur la route d'une guerre, Tchètchénie 1994-1996”

2003 Centre Photographique d'ìle de France, France
        “Russia 1991 to 2003”
        A retrospective on 10 years of work on Russia

2001 Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan,France 
        “Putin’s Russia: Life In Denial”

2001 Kulturzentrum, Nuernberg, Germany
        “On the Road to War”

2001 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
        “Chechnya (Vue chronologique de la guerre)”

1998 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
        “Dzerzhinsk, The Most Polluted Place on Earth”

1997 Centre Régional de la Photographie, Douchy-les-Mines, France
        “Chechnya”

1996 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
         “Chechnya”

1994 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France
         “Chechnya”

1993 Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France
        “Famine in Sudan”

1990 Focus Galeria, Taragona, Spain
        “Somnambule”

1987 Fnac, Paris, France
        “In Shadows”

joint exhibitions

2010 World tour exhibition (Denmark, Spain, Turkey, The Netherlands)
        Launched at the United Nations Climate Summit
        in Copenhagen in december 2009
        "Consequences by NOOR"

2009 Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, Paris, France
        "NOOR" collective exhibition

2008 Alternatilla Festival, Mallorca, Spain
        "217A"

2006 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
        Photomeetings Luxembourg 2006 - Mass Media Manipulation

2006 Maison de la Villette, Paris, France
        “L'AMOUR, comment ca va?”

2006 Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen, The Netherlands
        “Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster”

2006 Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France, Paris, France
        “Violences contre les femmes”

2006 Jeu de Paume - Site Concorde, Paris, France
        “Croiser des mondes”

2004 Centre Culturel des Carmes, Langon, France
        “Rencontres Photographiques en Sud Gironde”

2004 Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
        “Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2004”

2004 “Photoespana 2004 – Historias” Madrid, Spain

2004 Vu' La Galerie, Paris, France
         “UNIQUES”

2003 “Explorafoto - Festival de Fotografia de Castilla y Leôn”
         Salamanca, Spain