Jim Goldberg- INFLUENCE

Jim Goldberg (born 1953) is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.

Quote: "I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller.
Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work."

Jim Goldberg is best known for his book, Raised By Wolves, published in 1995, an impressionistic and often graphic document of the 10 years he spent photographing the young homeless of San Francisco. Now comes Open See, the book and accompanying exhibition, both part of a still-ongoing project about what Goldberg calls the "new Europeans" – illegal immigrants, refugees, displaced people and asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and eastern Europe

My only agenda,' says the photographer Jim Goldberg, 'is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.' The 57-year old California-based professor of art and longtime member of the illustrious Magnum photo agency has spent some 30 years immersing himself in the tangled lives endured by those on the margins