Join us at ICP for a conversation between ICP faculty Jade Doskow and “accidental ornithologist”, writer Trish O’Kane. O’Kane will present her new memoir, Birding to Change the World, followed by a conversation with Doskow. After the program, join the participants for a signing in the ICP shop.
About the Speakers
Trish O'Kane, the author of BIRDING TO CHANGE THE WORLD: A Memoir, is a writer and a senior lecturer in environmental justice at the University of Vermont, where avians are her teaching assistants. A former human rights journalist in Central America and the Deep South, she has written for the New York Times, Time, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her writer-husband, their dog, and three chickens.
New York-based architectural and landscape photographer and artist Jade Doskow is known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time. Working primarily in large format film and medium format digital, Doskow is best-known for her work Lost Utopias, Freshkills, Red Hook and ABC No Rio. She is the subject of the 2021 documentary Jade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias; the film’s New York premiere was held at the International Center of Photography in October 2021 and has also screened at the Asheville Museum of Art and in film festivals internationally.
Doskow’s work has been exhibited globally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Staten Island Museum, Cornell University, Asheville Museum of Art, Museum London, and many others. Just a few of the publications that have featured Doskow’s photographs include the New York Times, Hyperallergic, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Aperture, Photograph, Architect, Wired, Musée Mag, Smithsonian, Slate, and Newsweek Japan. Doskow is on the faculty of CUNY / College of Staten Island, the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography, all in New York City. She is a contributing environmental photojournalist to the New York Times. Doskow holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, New York City.
© Jade Doskow East Mound, Undulations (Our Sacred Mounds)
