Annette Louise Solakoglu

"Following a tip from a friend one day, Dmitri drove 15 miles from his home in Garrison, NY, to nearby Newburgh. What he found there was unlike anything he had ever seen before. Kasterine was immediately drawn to the crumbling Victorian houses, the neglected buildings, and, most strikingly, the unassuming grace of the people on the street. But when he tried to take his first photo, his subject told him to go away. Still, Kasterine returned, and kept coming back for the next 16 years." In 2012, he published a book of his work, Newburgh: Portrait of a City, and made the documentary film Newburgh: Beauty and Tragedy in 2016. (J. G. Teicher, NPR The picture show: An Octogenarian's Opus: A Portrait Of Newburgh, NY)

To see images from Dmitir's archive, please visit www.kasterine.com

For fifty-five years Dmitri Kasterine has photographed cultural figures from Roy Lichtenstein to Johnny Cash, Roald Dahl to Mick Jagger. His work was recently displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Dmitri also had a long association with Stanley Kubrick taking stills on Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange.