Friday, September 3, 2010

New Photography Exhibit

We're stoked to have a new artist gracing our walls here at Third Rail. Running now through October 15th, we have selected works from award winning photojournalist (and one of our dearest "regulars") Ashley Gilbertson.

Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, September 9th from 8-9:30pm. Light refreshments and coffee will be served. 


Ashley Gilbertson is a photojournalist with the VII Network photo agency. Gilbertson's photographs from Iraq where he worked from 2002 until 2008, gained him recognition from the Overseas Press Club who awarded Gilbertson the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his 2004 work in Falluja. His first book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, was released in 2007. Since then, Gilbertson has been working on Bedrooms Of The Fallen, a collection of photographs depicting the intact bedrooms of service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2009, a substantial part of the project was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine and published in March of 2010. Gilbertson meanwhile continues to concentrate on the two wars by examining veterans issues including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and suicide for Time Magazine and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives with his wife and child in New York City.