Book Talk: Phil Penman, "New York Street Diaries"
An intimate conversation with the artist behind the worldwide number one street photography book
About the Event
Photographer Phil Penman will be in conversation with journalist Peter Lattman to discuss Penman's New York Street Diaries, which launched as the number one street photography book worldwide and is now part of the permanent archives of the US Library of Congress.
The book has been featured in LFI Magazine, The Phoblographer, The Daily Mail, Black and White Magazine, teNeues and many more.
About the Speakers
The British-born, New York-based photographer Phil Penman has documented the ever-changing scene of New York City’s streets for more than 25 years. In his career as a news and magazine photographer, with a large body of work in such publications as The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, among others, he has photographed major public figures and historical events. In particular, his reportage following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has featured on NBC’s Today show, as well as on the BBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera, and his images have been included in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s archives.
His work covering the pandemic lockdown in New York City has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress, whose collection holds work by such great Depression-era documentarians as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Besides showing at Leica galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and London, Penman’s signature street photography has appeared in international exhibitions as far afield as Venice, Berlin, and Sydney.
He also tours the world teaching workshops on photography for Leica Akademie. He was recently named among the “52 Most Influential Street Photographers” alongside such legends as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand. Penman’s first book, Street, published in 2019, became a best-seller and was featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Peter Lattman is the managing director of media at Emerson Collective. He oversees Emerson’s investments and grants in media and journalism, including The Atlantic, where he serves as Vice Chair and a member of its Board of Directors. He also serves on the Boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists and American Journalism Project.
Prior to joining Emerson, Peter worked as a journalist at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.