Bertha and her son Jonathan at home during a difficult day for Bertha, Fall 1995
Ink Jet Print

Meryl Levin, BFA 1990
Meryl Levin is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work focuses on issues of health and social welfare and has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Magazine, DoubleTake and The Economist, among others. Her book Anatomy of Anatomy (Third Rail Press, 2000) and accompanying exhibition is traveling the United States and is currently on display at Duke University’s Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities. Levin has received a NYFA Fellowship, an Eva and Lucius Eastman Foundation grant and has been named a fellow of the Open Society Institute for their project on death in America. Levin is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches a course in social documentary photography. For ten years she has been working with photojournalist Susan Meiselas and was Associate Editor of Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History and continues to work on the web site, www.akaKurdistan.com.