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Miriam Berkley is a literary photographer specializing in author photographs with an extensive archive dating back to the late 1980s of more than one thousand writers, among them many Scandinavians, Latin Americans and Spaniards.
Working with the official photographer for the Sewanee Writers Conference, Miriam has been photographing Sewanee people and events from the inception of the Conference in 1990 until 2018.
Photographs of Ian McEwan, Stephen Hawking, Doris Lessing, William Gaddis, Donald Barthelme, Octavia Butler are among her most recognised photographs.
Before turning to ph Miriam Berkley is a literary photographer specializing in author photographs with an extensive archive dating back to the late 1980s of more than one thousand writers, among them many Scandinavians, Latin Americans and Spaniards.
Working with the official photographer for the Sewanee Writers Conference, Miriam has been photographing Sewanee people and events from the inception of the Conference in 1990 until 2018.
Photographs of Ian McEwan, Stephen Hawking, Doris Lessing, William Gaddis, Donald Barthelme, Octavia Butler are among her most recognised photographs.
Before turning to photography full-time in 1989, Miriam wrote book reviews, author interviews, publisher profiles and photography articles and reviews for such publications as Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Villager, Saturday Review, Popular Photography and American Photographer, which also published her full-page-plus photograph of Andreas Feininger.
The recipient of an NEH grant for journalists through which she participated in a month-long seminar with Henry Nash Smith at the University of California, Berkeley, Miriam received a 1984 Merit Award from the Art Directors Club (1984) for her text to the story "Volcano," in Popular Photography magazine, and won a Scholarship in Non-Fiction to the 1984 Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
In addition to her literary portraits and publishing event photography, she has a large stock of cityscapes, especially of New York, including photos of New York's bridges and waterways, and of photojournalistic imagery, "street shooting." A 1994 trip to Cuba, where she had an exhibition of author photographs, yielded a fascinating portfolio of Cuban street shots and portraits. ...
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