Photojournalist, Writer & Host of the podcast “America Speaks”
Author:We Protest: Fighting For What We Believe In, Rizzoli Books
Photojournalist, Writer & Host of “America Speaks”
Author of We Protest: Fighting For The America We Believe In, Rizzoli Books
Originally from New York City, Tish Lampert began her work as a photojournalist in London, where she freelanced for numerous publications and newspapers. Lampert’s work focuses on human rights issues. She worked with the Cesar Chavez movement for migrant workers’ rights in the nineties and for ten years, worked with the Navajo Nation in Tuba City and Window Rock, Arizona. Her “in the field” investigations include: Human Rights Watch, Concierge, Voices For a Free South Africa, The Los Angeles School District, Tap-Tap, The Los Angeles Conservancy and US Doctors Without Borders, and Art Miles Mural Project.
In her new book WE PROTEST: Fighting for What We Believe In (Rizzoli), photojournalist Tish Lampert captures the spirit of the heroes and ordinary citizens on their activist journey to defend their American values during the most conflicted era in our recent history. The book charts the chronology of social-change movements that have dominated the headlines over the past several years. Lampert’s lens has taken us to the front lines of activism, capturing our fight to defend our freedoms. We Protest is endorsed by Martin Sheen, Harry Belafonte, Vice President Kamala Harris, Nobel Peace Laureate Bobby Muller, Producer/Creator of 24 & Homeland, Howard Gordon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author & journalist, David Shipler, Gloria Steinem, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, Nobel Laureate Jonathan Granoff, Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, Michael Douglas & others.
Lampert, based in L.A., has spotlighted struggles across the globe, from Guatemala to Sub-Saharan Africa, and throughout the U.S. For five years, she served as media director and photographer for Voices of African Mothers at the United Nations. UN Women and Michelle Bachelet acknowledged Lampert’s work spotlighting women’s rights in Congo in 2013.
Lampert’s photographs have been in exhibitions at the United Nations, New York, UCLA, Jose Drudis Gallery, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Brentwood, CA, The Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, Mill Valley Photo LA, Fotografiska NY, Malibu, Vermont, and London. Lampert’s short film The Path To Freedom was created for Richard Colton’s Movement Without Borders, at Judson Memorial Church, in NYC. Her photographs are featured in the short film, Ghost Preferences; this work is now in the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts. December 2021. Lampert collaborated with the ACLU for their Bill of Rights Awards, where her photographs, from her book We Protest, were featured in a Diane Warren video.
Lampert is also the creator and host of the popular podcast, “America Speaks,” which gives voice to today’s heroes on the front lines of fighting for social change. She frequently speaks at libraries, i.e.: LA Public Library, Mill Valley Public Library.
Lampert is the recipient of two Nathan Cummings Foundation Family Grants. Her photographs are a part of numerous collections both here in the U.S. and in the U.K..
Websites: https://www.tishlampert.org/ https://visura.co/tishlampert3