Monday, September 15, 2014

Robert Zuckerman at G. Holmes Braddock, Sept 10 2014 - representin'!

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, renowned photographer, Robert Zuckerman came to G. Holmes Braddock Senior High school to speak with FIU Dual Enrollment students and Honors Drawing III students. 

Zuckerman has worked as a "photographer in the motion picture industry, Robert Zuckerman’s images have become the advertising and publicity campaigns for films such as “The Crow”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” , “Any Given Sunday”, “Training Day”, “Terminator 3”, “Bad Boys 2”, “National Treasure”, “Transformers”, “Pursuit of Happiness” and “The Great Debaters” among others as well as television series including, “The Shield”, “Rescue Me” and “Nip/Tuck”.  He has done recent album cover and movie poster photography for Will Smith and was invited to be the personal photographer for the family of Malcom X and Dr. Betty Shabazz.

His book Kindsight, is a collection of photographs and accompanying texts by Zuckerman illuminating the richness of everyday life encounters and experiences.  From taxi and bus drivers to waitresses to plumbers to kids at a playground, even to cats, Kindsight shows the extraordinary with the ordinary.

Robert Zuckerman has spoken to student and youth groups across the country, initializing workshops in which students use photography and writing together-as in the book- to connect with richness of life around them.” (http://www.robertzuckerman.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=3797)