Photographer: Eli Reed

Title: "Young Girl"

Eli Reed: "Young Girl," Peruvian Amazon, 2007

The young girl came into Reed's view while he was researching a documentary film on sustainable logging. For Reed, the image evokes memories of the housing project where he grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. "There was no anger in the memory, just a recognition of the difficulties that so many humans face," he says. The photograph, along with eight others by Reed, recently ended up being viewed by Pope Francis.

Eli Reed (American, b. 1946)
Eli Reed's coverage of the Lebanon war (1983-87), the 1986 Haiti coup and the 1989 U.S. intervention in Panama caught the attention of Magnum Photos where he became the first Black member of the agency. Reed has received the World Press Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Lucie Foundation Award, and was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. In 2015, Reed photographed the effects of poverty on American children for the documentary "Poorest in the Land of Plenty." He has worked on several major motion pictures, and his documentary "Getting Out" was shown at the New York Film Festival and honored by the 1996 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. His photography has also been featured at the prestigious Visa Pour l'Image Festival du Photoreportage in France. Reed was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a professor of photojournalism at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Image size: 18 x 13.5 inches (landscape)

Approx. framed size: 26.5 x 21.5 inches