CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/2/2024

Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'

Sunday, June 2, from 1–2:30 PM, Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery presents photographer Eugene Richards in conversation with NYC historian Seth Kamil for the launch of Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery, published by D.A.P. Richards will also share readings and images from the book, followed by a signing.
This event is free and open to the public, but guests must register here to attend. Please join us in the Historic Chapel!

In March 2020, photographer, writer and filmmaker Eugene Richards sought solace in Green-Wood after battling a severe case of COVID-19. Captivated by the Cemetery’s beauty, he spent years photographing its details and vistas across the seasons, creating lyrical images of snowbound headstones, grand mausoleums, intimate epitaphs, and the wear of time on all things.

Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery chronicles Richards’ visits between April 2020 and September 2023. The book interweaves the names and dates inscribed on gravestones with Richards’ personal memories to create a poignant portrait of the Cemetery and its relationship with time and nature.

Eugene Richards has had a 50+-year career as a freelance photographer and artist, authored 17 books, directed seven short films, and earned accolades including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award, and the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for Photographic Innovation.

Seth Kamil has offered walking tours on the history, architecture and people of New York for over twenty years. A Fellow of the New York Academy of History, he has consulted on landmark projects including Governors Island, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and San Francisco’s Presidio and has appeared on numerous television networks including the BBC, PBS and the History Channel.

This event is free, but registration is required. Please consider a $10 donation to the Green-Wood Historic Fund so that they can continue to offer free and low-cost programs throughout the year.

'Eugene Richards: Remembrance Garden' book launch
Sunday, June 2: 1–2:30 PM
The Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets HERE.