Emily Schiffer’s Profile

Push and Pull By Emily Schiffer: 15Dec; My partner's parents left Cameroon for New York before he was born. Raised in the US, he had limited contact with his parent’s country or relatives. In 2011, we traveled to Cameroon and spent several months getting to know his family of strangers. A family's perceptions of foreign life rarely match the realities immigrants face. Often, a gap forms between what is expected at home and what family abroad can fulfill. I am interested in the evolving relationships between...; Tags: Art, Documentary, Editorial, Family, Globalization, Immigration, Migration

B. 1980. In 2003 Emily Schiffer received her BA in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot. Awards include: a 2011 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant, the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture, the 2010 winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category, the 2009 Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, a 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Photography, and recognition as one of the top ten portfolios for the 2007 Leica Oskar Barnak Award. Emily has exhibited her photographs internationally. Publications include: Time Lightbox, Smithsonian Magazine, PDN, The Raw File, and BURN Magazine. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, Foto Baryo, Philippines, and The Center for Fine Art Photography, US. Emily lives in Brooklyn, NY and is available to work internationally.