STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE SCREENING IN SANTA FE
December 3, 2025 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE
DEC 29 & 30 · FILMMAKER Q&A
Monroe Gallery of Photography announces two special screenings of the new documentary film Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere at Sky Cinemas December 29 (7pm) and 30 (5pm). Director Maura Smith, Schapiro’s wife, will host a filmmaker Q&A with gallerists Sid and Michelle Monroe immediately following each screening.
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere documents the firsthand stories of photographer Steve Schapiro along with his vast archive of iconic images. Over six decades, Schapiro bore witness to some of the most significant social and cultural moments in modern American history.
Monroe Gallery represents Schapiro’s historic photographs, and several are featured in the current “Artists Behind The Art” exhibition.
Schapiro began his photojournalism career by documenting addiction in East Harlem and then traveling on his own to Arkansas to photograph migrant workers in 1961. His photo series on migrants was published in the Catholic magazine Jubilee. The New York Times saw the article and used one of Schapiro’s photos for the cover of their magazine. Schapiro then went on to work for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, People, and Paris Match.
Throughout his career, Schapiro photographed such notable people as Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Rosa Parks, Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, and Samuel Beckett among countless others. He documented Robert F. Kennedy’s last Christmas with his family and captured key images of the Civil Rights Movement.
In the 1970s, as picture magazines like Look folded, Schapiro shifted his attention to film. With major motion picture companies as his clients, Schapiro produced advertising materials, publicity stills, and posters for such notable films as The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown, and even Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Schapiro later returned to his primary interests: photojournalism and social justice. Shot shortly before his passing in 2022,
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere is a loving tribute to a man who was the quintessential "fly on the wall," waiting for moments to unfold and capturing them with a naturalism and skill that's nothing short of dazzling.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
My goal in making this film about Steve Schapiro was to capture his charm and creativity and, equally important, to show how we can’t always tell how our lives are being shaped—those moments in life that are influencing us but we don’t realize it.
It was important to me that Steve's story was told in his own words.
Early on in Steve’s career, a minister at Riverside Church suggested that Steve photograph addiction in Harlem. That same minister was Steve’s connection to the migrants in Arkansas. During the 60s, Steve went on to photograph James Baldwin, the civil rights movement, and Robert F. Kennedy’s political campaigns.
Later in life, after working in Hollywood, Steve returned to his social justice roots, befriending social activists Shane Claiborne and Fr. Pfleger and spending time with Sr. Rosemary at Misericordia, an applauded home for the developmentally disabled in Chicago.
Although Steve’s images of celebrities are quite famous, he never lost his passion for justice and equality for all. - Maura Smith, 2025
Sky Cinemas (505) 216-5678
1606 Alcaldesa St. Santa Fe, NM 87501
Monday, December 29 7 PM
Tuesday, December 30 5PM
