Entry Title: " #OccupyWallStreet"
Name: Ashley Gilbertson, United States
Category: Professional, Political


Entry Description:
As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have mushroomed into global protests, the nucleus of the movement remains in Zuccotti Park, a small, windswept plaza a few blocks north of Wall Street.

There, since September 17, 2011, responding to a call to action from Adbusters Magazine, hundreds of people hailing from all over the U.S. have been living in the makeshift encampment. Every day they organize marches, social network and generally attempt to act as a thorn in the side of greed, corporate influence and social and financial inequality.

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.