• Current Scholars
• Alumni
• Dream Big
• Scholar Travels
• Scholar Art & Music
• Scholar Stories
• The Scholar Experience

Bess I. Greenberg

Biography

Bess Greenberg loves basketball. She has spent nearly five years playing professionally for teams in Denmark and Israel. She also loves photography. She has been using her experience in different countries and cultures to nurture her skills and grow as a photographer. "When I sleep at night, I dream in images, of being in foreign cultures and capturing photographs that tell their profound stories."

Bess says she always intended to go back to school and is thrilled to be pursuing a master's in documentary photography at the International Center for Photography. She chose the school because of her admiration for the groundbreaking photographers that make up its staff and its location "at the heart of the photographic world" - New York City.

Bess hopes to break down cultural barriers with her work. "In a world where we constantly find reasons to separate ourselves from one another, I seek to find common understanding with different kinds of people," she says. "Through books, magazines and exhibitions, I want to give people the opportunity to greet new cultures - and through that introduction, I hope to spark distant human connections." She has already begun to realize her aspirations with a scheduled solo exhibition in Copenhagen portraying the Old City in Jerusalem.

Other Scholars Like Bess