James Lerager

Email: JL@webphotoessay.com

Phone: [+1] 510 290 8855 [USA]

Biography

James Lerager is the author of the book 'In The Shadow Of The Cloud'
[Fulcrum Press], "Tales From The Nuclear Age", and the forthcoming book
'Nuclear History Nuclear Destiny'.

He has had 35 solo photography exhibitions at universities, museums, and
galleries in the United States, South America, and Europe. Solo exhibits include Fotofest International [2008, Houston], Princeton, MIT, Duke, UC Berkeley, and
the Universidad de Antioquía. James has been published in books, magazines,
and newspapers in some 30 countries. He is currently photography editor for the
journal 'Latin American Perspectives' [www.latinamericanperspectives.org].

James holds a Master's Degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy,
University of California, Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in
Medellín, Colombia in 2004-2005, teaching documentary photography
and photojournalism at the Universities of Antioquía and Medellín,
developing his exhibition "Medellín Reborn" [Medellín en Renacimiento].
In 2007, he received a second Fulbright, returning to Medellín. James
was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia and Ghana. He documented
peoples, communities, and environments. Those photographs became
his exhibition "People and Place in West Africa"- exhibited at UC
Berkeley's Museum of Anthropology, and Stanford University's
Hoover Institute.

James lives in Berkeley, California. In his photographic work, he
uses series of photographs together with words to tell stories - the
power of photographs to communicate complex issues, engage and
inform audiences, and help generate positive societal change. The
majority of his photography exhibitions, publications, and book
projects use photography’s strength as symbolic language to engage
and inform the viewer, in ways that words alone seldom can.