TISH LAMPERT

       PHOTO-JOURNALIST / WRITER

Originally from New York City, Tish Lampert began her work as a photojournalist in London where she freelanced for numerous publications and newspapers, including The London Times, The Evening Standard, and Time Out Magazine. During that period, she covered everything from rock n’ roll to the Queen’s garden parties at Buckingham Palace and distinguished herself as one of the only women who photographed inside the mines at Abergavenny.

In the last two decades in Los Angeles, Tish has worked primarily with a focus on relevant political issues. She covered the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, as well as the Caesar Chavez movement for workers rights. For ten years, she worked with the Navajo Nation in Window Rock and Tuba City, Arizona. She continues to work in the field as a photojournalist for organizations such as Viewpoint, Voices Of African Mothers, Human Rights Watch, The Fund For Peace, Concierge, N.O.W., The Africa Project, The Navajo Nation, The Los Angeles School District, Tap-Tap, The Los Angeles Conservancy, Effortless Activism, AMMP as well as having just completed a project working with the United Nations in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. She is presently mounting a campaign to raise world awareness for the Congolese gorilla with her photographs. Tish recently completed work on an extensive photo essay/book on the voices of dissent in the United States during the Bush regime: The Silenced Majority. Her portraits include some of today’s most outspoken critics on the current political scene.  She exhibits in Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, New York and upcoming in Geneva and Paris in 2009,

Lampert’s photographs are in numerous private collections, including The Kress Family, Ambassador Chowdhury, Lynn Howard Selby, Judge Richard Lane, The Doris Lane Foundation, John & Cassandra Spiak, The Olsen Foundation, The Lake Tahoe Association, The Luckmans, Lord and Lady Worsley, Herbie Hancock, Joan Javits, Pauletta and Denzel Washington, Harry Belafonte, Shari Belafonte, Martin Sheen, Effortless Activism, Thor Halverson, The Human Rights Foundation, and The Spalding Trust; to name but a few.

When she isn’t behind the lens of her camera, Tish is a writer who has created, produced and directed numerous plays. She originated the Navajo Repertory Theatre and wrote,  “Lay My Burden Down”, a seminal musical on slavery that is performed at The House of Blues. Her work in the theatre led her to writing screenplays. The list includes: Haverstock Hill, No Prescription Necessary, Hope Inc., Plausible Deniability(optioned property), TLC(optioned property) and …let the good times roll”(optioned property). She is credited as a co-author on the forthcoming book “Sinister Thoughts” written with Dr Josie Hadley.