Longtime photojournalist Michael Kamber is the force behind the Bronx Documentary Center, a venue for photography, film, and new media that opens in September with an exhibition on the work of the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya in April.

The Center, at 614 Courtland Avenue, aims to create an engaging venue for photojournalists, artists, filmmakers, critics and educators interested in documentary and innovative methods of storytelling. It is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, the national arts nonprofit. Kamber, who currently works for the New York Times, photographed the war in Iraq for the Times between 2003 and 2010. He has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, Liberia, Darfur, and the Congo. A former Revson Fellow at Columbia University, he is currently working on a photojournalists’ oral history of the Iraq War, to be published in 2012.
Michael Kamber, photo by Ricky Flores