Documenting Activism 

The New York City Department of Records and Information Services/Municipal Archives

In conjunction with the exhibit <A HREF="http://www.archives.nyc/unlikely-historians-1/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Unlikely Historians: Materials collected by NYPD surveillance teams, 1960-1975</A>, the Municipal Archives invites you to join in a lively conversation and presentation with photojournalists Kisha Bari and Erik McGregor about their work and the art of documenting activism and social change.  Moderated by reporter and columnist Tom Robbins.
<A HREF="https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/tom-robbins/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tom Robbins</A> has been a reporter and columnist covering crime and politics in New York for more than thirty years, including stints at the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, and The New York Observer. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine and the New York Post. He teaches at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism where he is Investigative Journalist in Residence.
<A HREF="http://www.kishabari.com/home" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kisha Bari </A> is a New York-based photographer from Australia who is passionate about capturing people through portraiture and visual storytelling. Her range as a photographer and her personal approach has allowed her to photograph an array of subjects, from America’s union workers to high profile musicians and ballet dancers in the studio. Her portrait documentary “How Sandy Hit Rockaway” on the recovery of residents in Rockaway, New York after Hurricane Sandy was a featured exhibit at Photoville in 2013. Her work covering the Women’s March was also a featured exhibit at Photoville in 2017 and Kisha continues to document the Women's March organizers as our current civil rights leaders. Kisha’s work has been published in many media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone Magazine.
<A HREF="https://erikmcgregorphotography.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erik McGregor</A> is a New York City based artists, photographer and activist. Erik is a member of the People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street and a co-writer if the Occupy Wall Street’s Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. As a published freelance photographer, he has documented activist groups actions in NYC since 2011.

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