In a Woman’s Shadow: A Visual Essay

Photographs by Nadine Epstein

Opening Reception April 20, 2017 • 6–8 pm

On View through June 30, 2017

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum

Jules Backman Gallery

One West Fourth Street | New York, NY 10012

On a reporting trip to Ukraine in 2008, noted journalist Nadine Epstein became fascinated by her shadow on the land that her ancestors once trod, inspiring nearly a decade of insightful, fluid images that make up her iShadow Project. “In a Woman’s Shadow: A Visual Essay,” highlights some of her shadow photographs set against various pilgrimage sites and natural landscapes, creating a visual dialogue that includes the viewer. In this selection of over two dozen fleeting moments of travel, study, jubilation, and insight, Epstein includes us in her personal conversation.

I feel Nadine Epstein’s ethereal shadow images capture memory and time with a quiet emotion that leaves us in a state of reflection.

–Mindy Weisel, Artist 

Nadine Epstein is the editor and publisher of Moment Magazine and founder of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative. The author of several books, Epstein’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Christian Science Monitor and Ms., amongst others.

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Friday: 9 am – 3 pm

Admission:
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Presented by the Irma L. and Abram S. Croll Center for Jewish Learning and Culture, with the support of George, z”l, and Mildred Weissman.