CPW “Meet the Artist” with Nina Berman

On Thursday, May 1, we welcome Nina Berman to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Nina will present work from her career and recent images around campus protest and the free speech crackdown at Columbia University.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, working photojournalist, and tenured Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her work explores American politics, war and militarism, environmental issues and post violence trauma. She is the author of three books, Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, Homeland and An autobiography of Miss Wish. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France among others. She is a professor at Columbia University.