Kimberlee Acquaro

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Kimberlee Acquaro
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Kimberlee Acquaro is an American filmmaker and photojournalist. [1] Acquaro 's work covers human and civil rights, racial and gender justice. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy for Best Documentary. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, Otis College of Art and Design's LA Artist Residency and an Emerging Curator's Fellowship.

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Her work has garnered international film festival awards and been featured on HBO, Cinemax, CNN, CBS, NPR, "The Tavis Smiley Show", "The Voice of America," BBC/PRI's "The World"; shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The California African American Museum, Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., The Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, Advocate Gochis Gallery in Los Ángeles and the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. Acquaro's journalism has appeared as cover stories in The New York Times Magazine, in The Washington Post Magazine, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Interview, Mother Jones, Art News and many international publications. She was awarded a prestigious Pew Fellowship in International Journalism and a Residency at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC for her work in Rwanda. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film for her work documenting race in America through the eyes of African-Americans over the age of 100 in I'll Rise. Acquaro's practice has expanded to include visual art as collective action, public space art and socially engaged exhibitions on racism, bias and transgender rights.

Acquaro began her career as an intern for photographer Mary Ellen Mark and assistant to Eddie Adams. She worked as assistant to the director of photography at Life magazine then a photography editor at Time magazine and at U.S. News & World Report. She joined the staff at The Eddie Adams Workshop; has been a jurist at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France; a jurist for The International Documentary Association and for the Emmy Awards. She studied photography and earned her MFA at Maine Media College. Acquaro's work is represented by Women Make Movies.

Awards

Emmy Award for Best Documentary [2]

Filmography

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Rwanda: Photo Essay by Kimberlee Acquaro". Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  6. ↑ "Kimberlee Acquaro - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
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