A documentary photographer and a professor of photography, Charlee Brodsky describes her work as dealing with social issues and beauty. Her most recent book, I Thought I Could Fly... Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair, is on sale now. Brodsky exhibits her work nationally and regionally, has been honored with Pennsylvania Arts Fellowships and other awards, and often works with writers. [More...]

January 27, 2010; My exhibition India — A Light Within with writers Neema Avashia and Zilka Joseph is featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today. Sarah Bauknecht, the writer of the article, did an excellent job of understanding the many pieces of the work. She starts the piece by saying, "If you've ever doubted the ability of photography, dance and writing to work in harmony, think again..."  Here's the link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/10027/1031210-437.stm. This Sunday, January 31, all the pieces of my Indian collaboration come together when we have a reading by Neema and Zilka, and a dance performance by Sreyashi Dey, at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill, from 1-3. Please come if you want some color and warmth. The event is free.  [More...]

During the spring semesters of 2008 and 2009, my class worked with Lydia's Place. Lydia's Place is a social service agency in Pittsburgh that helps women and their children with the lives during or after the mother's incarceration. Our class explored how photography could be used to help the women with their lives, how photography could tell their stories, and how photography could create a bond between two different groups of people — women offenders and Carnegie Mellon students. [View a PDF about the project.]