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.
read moreAltamont 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...
read moreRemembering 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...
read moreWashington Jewish Week: Earl Dotter Stays Focused
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read moreEssential 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...
read moreMine 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:
read moreDotter Photo of Coal Miner, misused by Russians – in Mueller Report
2016 Trump-Pence Election Poster Was Published in the Recently-Released Mueller Report. It Is the only Mueller Report Visual Exhibit of Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. I first learned of this photo’s misuse by the Russian Internet Research Agency from Howard Berkes at NPR. Previously a friend employed at the Federal Mine Safety Review Commission saw the Trump poster online after the election. They were the first to let me know of this improper use of my photo of Lee Hipshire a black lung victim who died at age 57...
read moreThe Poet Laureate of American Workers
Grondahl: ‘Poet laureate’ of American workers bringing photo exhibit By Paul Grondahl Tuesday, April 9, 2019 ALBANY — Earl Dotter understands as well as anyone the hazards faced by workers who perform the five most dangerous jobs in America: logging, commercial fishing, airline piloting, roofing and trash hauling. He has stood alongside loggers wielding roaring chainsaws and felling massive Douglas fir trees in Washington state forests. In winter, he has straddled the heaving, icy deck of a large commercial stern trawler...
read moreIn Our Blood, Four Coal Mining Families
Earl Dotter and Matt Witt’s 1979 book about Coal Miners: In Our Blood, Four Coal Mining Families, published by The Highlander Center may be viewed and read now on Google Books.
read morePictures That Speak
Posted February 18, 2019 – For viewers of this site: Please note the Stansbury Forum just published my illustrated feature article, Pictures That Speak, delving into my photo work history and the motivation behind my images.
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