Ruth Orkin - Photofile society and faced with album covers

and faced with album covers that are artworks in their own right

took to the streets to demonstrate against electoral reform: what would go down in history as the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ was underway

she plays more with the contradictory yet dreamlike spaces of this art(ificial) nature

and capture its spirit

and geography in order to rethink and rework “change” as a means toward shared climate futures

Ruth Orkin - Photofile society and faced with album coversRuth Orkin (192185) always dreamed of becoming a filmmaker, and although that ambition was thwarted until later in her career, she quickly found other ways of engaging with the world of images. She was given her first camera at the age of ten and by the age of seventeen, she was cycling across America from Los Angeles to New York, documenting her trip in albums of annotated photographs. In the early 1940s she settled in New York, joining the Photo