About us
Postcards from Forever is a project by Fine Acts.
Its Racial Justice edition has been done together with photographer Jon Lowenstein, in collaboration with Diversify Photo.
The Abortion Rights edition happens in collaboration with photographers Meg Handler (USA) and Karolina Gembara (Poland), and designer Dolly Meieran (USA).
Both editions are made possible because of the support of a host of amazing photographers, activists, and organizations. See a full list below.
Fine Acts is a creative studio for social impact. We are a global nonprofit that believes in the power of art and multidisciplinary play. In our work, we think about ways to make people care and act, and we create novel avenues to empower activism.
Collaborators / Racial Justice edition
Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than 25 years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth projects that confront the realms of power, poverty, and violence. Lowenstein has spent the past decade engaging his adopted community on Chicago’s South Side. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a TED speaker and Senior Fellow; as well as a member and owner of the NOOR Images cooperative and photo agency.
Diversify Photo is a community of BIPOC and non-western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the mass media have seen and recorded the images of our time. Their international online database is used by editors at major media outlets seeking to diversify their rosters of visual storytellers.
Collaborators / Abortion Rights edition
Karolina Gembara is a photographer, activist, and researcher. She is a member of the Archive of Public Protest and Sputnik Photos (Warsaw, Poland). She writes about the agency of photography, and its repressive and emancipatory potential, political action, and visual protest. She also teaches photography, visual activism, and participatory art.
Meg Handler is an editor, curator, and social documentary photographer, with a focus on politics, media culture, and social justice. In 2017, she co-curated the seminal exhibition Whose Streets? Our Streets: New York 1980-2000, which opened at New York’s Bronx Documentary Center and traveled through 2019. She recently left her 9-year post as the Editor at Large for Reading The Pictures. She is the former photo editor of The Village Voice.
Dolly Meieran co-founded Women’s Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) in 1989 and co-directed the award-winning activist documentary Access Denied (1992). She has worked with a host of photographers and galleries since then and is currently Director of Salons for 10x10 Photobooks.
Racial Justice edition
Idea and production
Fine Acts & Jon Lowenstein
Postcards Design
Tom Tian
Archival Selection and Curation
Meg Handler
Outreach and Partnerships
Anastasia Page
Photographers / Archival Images (Library of Congress)
Dick DeMarsico
Gordon Parks
Jack Delano
James F. Gibson
Marion S. Trikosko
Thomas J. O'Halloran
Tony Frissell
Photographers / Contemporary Images
Brent Lewis
Jon Lowenstein
Joseph Rodriguez
Joshua Lott
Nina Berman
Abortion Rights edition
Production and coordination
Fine Acts
Postcards Design
Dolly Meieran
Archival Selection and Curation
Meg Handler, Dolly Mieran, Karolina Gembara
Photographers
Dona Ann McAdams
Meryl Levin
Sandra-Lee Phipps
Michalina Kuczyńska
Rafał Milach
Postcards from Forever is a project in progress. More photographers will be added on a rolling basis.
Our Partners
Congress.cards is a site that allows you to send real paper mail to your elected officials, while also raising funds for the causes you care about.
The Lions Share NYC is a multi-faceted organization created to support COVID-19 relief specifically in NYC.
Our Supporters
Noor is a global, multilingual collective of highly accomplished journalists, authors, photographers, artists and filmmakers documenting, investigating and witnessing our world.
Postcards from Forever has no direct affiliation with Black Lives Matter or the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, but you can learn more about their awesome work at https://blacklivesmatter.com/ and https://www.naacpldf.org/