Lynn Gilbert

Contact: Lynn Gilbert
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For more than six decades, I’ve photographed unexplored corners of society that existed in plain sight yet remained undocumented.

My work began with photographs of my own children, but it took on a new shape with a portrait of Louise Nevelson. That commission revealed a glaring absence: where were the women reshaping our world?

I tracked down and photographed the key figures of the second wave of the women’s movement, creating “Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times, 1981,” the first book, and only one combining portraits and first-person interviews with these trailblazers at the height of their influence.
This instinct to document the overlooked has defined my career: children from more than 100 New York City families representing a world that no longer exists; Turkey’s disappearing traditional homes in the first systematic documentation of its kind. And representing nature, a historic garden, part of which no longer exists.

My work has been widely exhibited and published, with portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, and New York Historical Society. It has appeared on media platforms more than 2,000 times, including Netflix, Nvidia, Intel, National Geographic, MoMA, the British Museum, and The Washington Post.