{{Short description|American photographer}} {{Infobox person | name = Lori Grinker | image = | birth_date = 1957 | birth_place = New York City, United States | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Documentary Photographer | website = [http://www.lorigrinker.com/ www.lorigrinker.com] }} '''Lori Grinker''' (born 1957) is an American documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator from New York City. She is best known for her self-directed, long-term projects, and has conducted these projects through photography, video and multimedia. Grinker has had three books of her work published and been exhibited and collected internationally.

==Life and work== Grinker studied photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City with Bernice Abbott, George Tice, and Lisette Model. While at Parsons, she conducted a photo essay on boxers who worked with boxing trainer Cus D'Amato. Although her project focused on nine-year-old pugilist Billy Hamm, she also met 13-year-old Mike Tyson during this time, and would continue to photograph him for the next ten years, including his 1988 ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine Cover.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/result/cover/index.htm?query=mike%20tyson%201988&searchType=cover&allClause=&exactClause=&orClause=&notClause=&startDt=&endDt=&sortBy=date&shootId=&searchByShootId=&currentPage=1&start=1&npp=20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922155704/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/result/cover/index.htm?query=mike%20tyson%201988&searchType=cover&allClause=&exactClause=&orClause=&notClause=&startDt=&endDt=&sortBy=date&shootId=&searchByShootId=&currentPage=1&start=1&npp=20|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 22, 2013|title=CNN Sports provided by Bleacher Report - CNN.com|publisher=Sportsillustrated.cnn.com|accessdate=23 December 2014}}</ref> Grinker also covered 9/11, and took one of her most well-known photographs<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/files/bagnews/images/Lori%20Grinker%209_11.jpg|format=JPG|title=Photographic image|publisher=Bagnewsnotes.com|accessdate=23 December 2014}}</ref> of firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero during this time.<ref name="SI2021">{{cite web |last1=McGreevy |first1=Nora |title=A LESSER-KNOWN PHOTO OF AN ICONIC 9/11 MOMENT BRINGS SHADES OF GRAY TO THE DAY'S MEMORY |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/raising-flag-ground-zero-second-look-180978592/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian |access-date=9 September 2021 |date=8 September 2021}}</ref>

For her book ''The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women'' (co-authored with writer Diana Bletter) she traveled across America documenting the stories of Jewish women and what tied them together. Her book ''Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict'' is an exploration of the effects of war on its many actors and victims after the wars have ended.<ref name="SI2021"/> In 2012 Grinker worked on her first short documentary, ''The Little Freedom Church''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bhn.tv/category/original-series|title=Black Heritage Network - Black TV Channel 24/7|publisher=Bhn.tv|accessdate=23 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223203208/http://www.bhn.tv/category/original-series|archive-date=23 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> (for the Black Heritage Network). In 2013 her self-produced and directed video ''Wilderness After War'' for the Dart Society about the effects of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on three former U.S. service members was featured on PBS Newshour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/the-wilderness-after-war.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116030506/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/the-wilderness-after-war.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 16, 2013|title=The Wilderness After War: Living with PTSD|work=PBS NewsHour|accessdate=23 December 2014}}</ref> Her third book, Mike Tyson was published by powerHouse books in 2022.

She is represented by Contact Press Images, and CLAMP Art Gallery in NYC. Her work is included in the collections of the 9-11 Museum, The International Center of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston.<ref name="MFAH">{{cite web |title=Lori Grinker: Untitled |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/79349/untitled?ctx=d7642144ce4d4d09fb0de571f6071ff8b5ec9441&idx=20005 |website=mfah.org}}</ref>

==Publications== *''The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women'' *''Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict''<ref name="SI2021"/><ref name="TRUTHDIG">{{cite web |title=One Day We'll All Be Terrorists |url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/one-day-well-all-be-terrorists/ |website=Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists |date=28 December 2009 |language=en}}</ref> * Mike Tyson

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== External links == *{{Official website}}

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