Earl’s June 2025 keynote address to The National Coalition of Black Lung and Respiratory Disease Clinics
On June 4, 2025, Earl gave the Keynote Address to the Annual Meeting of the National Coalition of Black Lung and Respiratory Disease Clinics at Pipestem Resort State Park, West Virginia.
Remembering the 30th Anniversary March on Washington at the 60th
A Participant Who Stood Out Then and Stands Out Today In the afternoon of August 28th, 1993, the humidity and heat were overwhelming. I had spent the morning photographing on assignment for the United Autoworkers (UAW) for its magazine, Solidarity. From around the country, autoworkers were attending the 30th anniversary of the I Have Dream speech that Martin Luther King gave on August 23rd, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a speech that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Among the photos that I took that day at the 1993 commemoration of the speech was one of a quite striking woman, Raymona Middleton, a third generation Washingtonian who, in 1963, at the tender age of 13, had begged her mother to let her attend the march to hear King speak....
Washington Jewish Week: Earl Dotter Stays Focused
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Essential Workers in the Time of COVID-19
By Occupational Photojournalist, Earl Dotter A Johns Hopkins Education & Research Center ((ERC) Seminar This seminar focused on my photographs of Essential Workers on the Frontlines of Healthcare who protected us amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. I discussed the evolution of my methods and strategies to protect myself in hazardous workplaces and from exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Many of my assignments focused on dangerous work requiring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). I included images of workers whose employers did not provide PPE and the adaptations the workers made to protect themselves. Emergency responders, farmworkers, and public employees were featured. A series of images also showed, for the first time, photographs of Industrial...
Mine and Mill Portfolio: NPR’s Bob Edwards, Morning Edition Interview
Interview on the Publication of my First Portfolio. In 1980, I published my first portfolio, In Mine and Mill: A Photographic Portfolio of Coal Miners and Textile Workers. I had the pleasure of being interviewed about it by NPR’s redoubtable Bob Edwards, which you can hear below. I want to thank my friend, NPR’s Howard Berkes, for making this available. Bob Edwards Interview:
Altamont Enterprise: Earl Dotter’s Immigrant Job Training School Visit
Dotter: ‘Photojournalist of working people’ — and of refugees who want to work Wednesday, May 29, 2019 – 20:32 by Elizabeth Floyd Mair ALBANY — Earl Dotter moved quietly around the long tables in a classroom on the second floor of the Emmaus United Methodist Church in Albany last month, taking photos of refugees and immigrants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burma, Afghanistan, and many other countries. The newcomers to the United States were attending a session of the Job Club that will help them prepare for and find employment. Dotter was brought to the Capital District by the Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health, whose executive director, Matt London, called him “the preeminent photojournalist of...