New Tearsheets

Vanity Fair, February 2012. “Revolution Number 99.” Image by Steven Greaves.

 

Tribeca Trib, “Seaport Museum to Host Major Photo Exhibit on Occupy Wall Street.” January 20, 2012.

 

‘Occupy Wall Street’ at the Grande Re-opening of South Street Seaport Museum

My work from ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to feature at the Grande Re-Opening of the Museum of the City of New York’s South Street Seaport Museum.

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The ‘occupy.inside.out‘ project as featured in Good magazine.

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occupy.inside.out- During the weekend of October 15th and 16th, Steven Greaves teamed up with photographer Charles Meacham to shoot 99 portraits of everyday working Americans to represent the 99% of the population who find themselves under-represented in our current political and economic system. With the images shot, we then collaberated with TED grant-winner and street-artist JR‘s Inside Out Project to turn these simple portraits into street art. On the night of October 20th, the 99 portraits were wheat-pasted and hung up in various locations around Manhattan and with only one parking ticket and one vandalism citation received, the action declared a success.

In stark contrast to the mainstream media’s portrayal of the Occupy Wall Street movement as populated by eccentrics, hippies and Anarchists, this is the face of the 99. They are doctors and lawyers, children and mothers, bus drivers and flight attendants. They are normal, hard-working Americans who want a better future for themselves, their children and their country. They hope to return to a time when elected officials vote the interests of the majority and Corporate dominance over their politics and lives is reigned in.

Please see www.occupyinsideout.com for their stories.

“Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense.”

The Guardian, “Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense.” September 21, 2011. Photograph by Steven Greaves

Read full text here.

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As the 2008 economic collapse and resulting “Great Recession” sent devastating waves throughout global financial markets, the banks who caused much of the mayhem came to feed at the trough of the U.S. taxpayer. With pleas of “too big to fail” and with government complicity, the Bush Administration signed in to law TARP ( the Troubled Asset Relief Program) wherein the Federal government would give $300 billion to bail out the largest of corporations. Called to testify before Congress, these titan CEOs flew in to D.C. mega-hotels on corporate jets and invigorated an already-angered public. Banker bonuses, a lack of Congressional intervention and a growing disparity between the haves (the said “1%”) and the have-nots (the remaining “99″) outraged many Americans.

Spawned by Adbusters.com, social media and the Arab Spring, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement seeks to rid politics of moneyed interests. During the week-long protest, begun on September 17, 2011, sympathizers gathered in New York’s financial district to chant, picket and hold discussions. The movement is in response to the 2008 “Great Recession” and the continuing economic policies that put over one-third of the nation’s wealth in the hands of 1% of the population. They speak for “the99.”

 

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EOS Magazine

New tearsheet from EOS Magazine‘s July-September, 2011 issue.

Geographical

“Europe’s Migrant Portal,” the article I shot in Greece and Turkey is now available in Geographical magazine. Text by Matt Carr. Photography by Steven Greaves.

Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture.”

Steven Greaves photograph of a 2REP legionnaire in Afghanistan featured in the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” blog. The blog mentioned the work of National Geographic’s annual photo contest for which Steven has two entries in the running.

Forward Thinking Museum Photography Contest

“Terre des Oublis” story recognized by the Forward Thinking Museum‘s photography contest.