About

Gregory Whitmore is an independent photographer, filmmaker, editor and media activist.

In the spring of 2001, Whitmore traveled to Peshawar, Pakistan to preserve a vast and endangered video and photographic archive made during the 1980s by Afghan journalists from the Afghan Media Resource Center. Later, he helped engineer the digital archive and prepared selections of the material for an exhibit at the Asia Society in NYC.

His most recent feature documentary, Kabul Transit debuted at the Full Frame Documentary Festival in 2006 and traveled to film festivals in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Kabul Transit was called "One of the most important films on the Middle East in recent years," by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

He is eagerly awaiting the 2011 release of a feature documentary about Biosphere 2, which he has produced with Shawn Roseneheim.

His short films include look into the pneumatic garbage system disposal system in use on NYC's Roosevelt Island, three shorts about contemporary American photographers & painters and an instructional film about the construction of a double reed wind instrument called a murali played by the Merasi of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan (India).

Entirely self taught in photography and film, Whitmore's only formal schooling in art was a class in color theory he took in high school and 8 months of rebus construction at his integrated deaf pre-school at the age of five.