Marissa Roth

Marissa Roth is a photojournalist who was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News for their coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. She is the subject of a one-woman show, Finding the Light written and performed by Lisa Hayes.[1][2]

Marissa Roth
Born1957
OccupationPhotojournalist
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Spot News

In addition to the Los Angeles Times, Roth has worked for Newsweek, The New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly. She is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles[3] and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4]

Photography

The child of Holocaust survivors, much of Roth's work has focused on those affected by violence.[1][5]

Her project Witness to Truth was commissioned by The Museum of Tolerance/Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles; it features her photos of 95 Holocaust survivors who volunteered at the center and is a permanent exhibit there.[4]

Her 2012 exhibit One Person Crying features photos from 28 years of Roth's report, specifically showing wars' effects on women around the world, including Bosnia, Cambodia, Ireland, Poland, and Vietnam.[6][1] One Person Crying inspired playwright and actor Lisa Hayes to develop her one-woman show, Finding the Light, which includes images from the exhibit and addresses women's struggles for survival in times of conflict.[7] The show premiered at the 2014 meeting of the European Association for American Studies in the Hague.[8][9]:15

In 2016, Roth curated an exhibit of wartime photos by Vietnam War veterans entitled My War: Wartime Photographs by Vietnam Veterans.[10]

Exhibitions
  • One Person Crying: Women and War, 2012[1]
  • In Hollywood, 2009
  • An Evening with Marissa Roth, 2008;
  • Witness to Truth: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, 2005[5]
  • Caught in the Crossfire: Women and War, 2001
  • Inside/Out: Downtown Los Angeles, 2000[11]
  • Burning Heart: A Portrait of the Philippines, 1999.

Books

As photographer
  • Infinite Light, 2014[12]
  • Come the Morning, 2005[13]
  • Real city : downtown Los Angeles inside/out, 2001[14]
  • Burning Heart: a Portrait of the Philippines, 1999[15]

As editor
  • My War : Wartime Photographs by Vietnam Veterans[16]

References
  1. "One Person Crying: Women and War - Museum of Tolerance | Los Angeles, CA". www.museumoftolerance.com. Archived from the original on 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  2. "Photographer Marissa Roth Portrayed in 'finding the Light' at Arts Barn". US State News. October 6, 2015.
  3. Weaver, Jennifer (October 1999). "Marissa Roth's Places of the Heart". Photo District News. 19 (10): 193–196.
  4. Bilcock, Megan (2018-08-14). "Marissa Roth". RPS Hundred Heroines. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  5. Hawkes, Marilyn (2016-03-23). "Exhibit features witnesses to truth". www.jewishaz.com. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  6. Chatain, Georges (2014-02-24). "Marissa Roth donne à la guerre un visage féminin". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  7. "United Solo » Finding the Light". United Solo. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  8. Birkle, Carmen. "EAAS Women's Network". women.eaas.eu. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  9. "America: Justice, War, Conflict [conference program]" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  10. Berger, Joseph (2016-06-28). "How Young Soldiers Saw Life in Wartime Vietnam". Lens Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  11. Roth, Marissa (2000). "Inside/Out: Downtown Los Angeles | Los Angeles Public Library". www.lapl.org. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  12. Roth, Marissa; Woeser, Tsering (2014). Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet. Seattle: Marquand Books. ISBN 978-0615909158.
  13. Harris, Mark Jonathan; Roth, Marissa (2005). Come the morning. ISBN 9780814332412.
  14. Roth, Marissa; Waldie, D. J (2001). Real city: downtown Los Angeles inside/out. Santa Monica, Calif.: Angel City Press. ISBN 9781883318079.
  15. Roth, Marissa; Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata (1999). Burning heart: a portrait of the Philippines. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 9780847821693.
  16. Roth, Marissa; Berg, June (2016). My War: Wartime Photographs by Vietnam Veterans.
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