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Documentary photographer Shepard Sherbell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and educated at Columbia University and Università di Roma. He has been based in London, Prague, Paris, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. His preferred subject is everyday people at work and how it affects their lives.
His work has been published in many magazines and books, including one on a grant from the Ford Foundation. His photographs have won prizes from the Canon Photo Essayist Award, Overseas Press Club of America, National Press Photographers' Association/University of Missouri Pictures of the Year, White House News Photographers' Association Pictures of the Year, and Communication Arts. He was a finalist for the 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award.
His photographs have been exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in London; Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France, 1994 and 1999; Fotofusion and the Palm Beach Photography Museum; The Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco; and the inaugural exhibition of SABA Gallery in New York.
In 1989, Sherbell was a founder of SABA Press Photos, now Corbis/Saba. He lives in Manhattan and continues to travel. |
