Tabitha Soren (born August 19, 1967) is an American fine art photographer and former reporter for MTV News, ABC News and NBC News.
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 Soren in 2016 | |
| Born | August 19, 1967 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Spouse | Michael Lewis |
| Children | 3 |
Early career
editAs a 19-year-old college student at NYU, Soren appeared in the 1987 music video for "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" by the Beastie Boys.[1] At the age of 23, she was the face of MTV's Choose or Lose campaign, which focused on encouraging young adults to vote. The campaign received a Peabody Award in May 1992.[2] She interviewed Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill and Yasser Arafat, among others. She had cameo roles in the films The Cable Guy and Contact as herself.[3] Clips of her interviews with Tupac Shakur were included in the 2003 documentary film Tupac: Resurrection.
Later career
editAfter working in television news, Soren spent a year studying art and photography at Stanford University.
Soren's projects have been published in The New York Times Magazine,[4] Canteen, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, Sports Illustrated, and New York, among others. Public collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pier 24 Photography,[5] Transformer Station at Cleveland Museum of Art,[6] and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana.[7]
In 2012, her show Running appeared at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.[8] A three-year-long project shot in 15 states, as well as in Mexico and Canada, Running featured dramatically lit, isolated individuals running in everyday settings.
In 2015, Soren's exhibition Fantasy Life debuted at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area.[9] The exhibition showcased images of 21 baseball players selected for the Oakland A's 2002 draft class, whom Soren followed for thirteen years until they were out of baseball.[10] Later that same year, Soren exhibited Panic Beach, a photographic series of rugged, powerful waves along coastlines all over the world.[11]
In 2017, the Aperture Foundation published a selection of Soren's Fantasy Life photographs, with text by Dave Eggers.[12] The book was released just prior to a major exhibition at San Francisco City Hall also titled Fantasy Life, which displayed over 180 of Soren's images.[13] Also in summer of 2017, EUQINOMprojects in San Francisco exhibited work from the Surface Tension series,[14] in which all images were photographed using 8 x 10 sheets of film.[15] The gallery also showcases photographs from her project, As Far As You Know.[16]
Personal life
editSoren married author Michael Lewis in 1997.[17] They have three children.[18]
On May 25, 2021, Soren’s daughter Dixie was involved in a head-on collision with a semi truck near Truckee, California. Dixie was pronounced dead at the scene.[19]
References
edit- ^ "The Beastie Boys Provide A License To Party". The GRAMMYs. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ "Choose or Lose Campaign". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
- ^ Stiller, Ben (June 14, 1996), The Cable Guy, retrieved May 7, 2016
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (November 2, 2015). "Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ "Soren, Tabitha". Pier 24. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ jkelly (February 2, 2023). "Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ Rodrigue, Wendy (June 20, 2018). "Tabitha Soren: uprooted | The Latest | theadvocate.com". www.theadvocate.com. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ Lalinde, Jaime (June 1, 2012). "Photos: Photos: Tabitha Soren's Stark, Ominous "Running" Portrait Show at iMOCA". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ Gleason, Mat (May 4, 2015). "Tabitha Soren Takes on Baseball in Fantasy Life". The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ Thomas, Louisa (May 11, 2017). "Fantasy Life: An Interview with Tabitha Soren". The Paris Review. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ "[Art] "Panic Beach" Art Show by Tabitha Soren". www.diablomag.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ Eggers, Dave (2017). Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream. Aperture. ISBN 978-1-59711-385-4.
- ^ "San Francisco Arts Commission". www.sfartscommission.org. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "PAST EXHIBITIONS". EUQINOMprojects. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ Indrisek, Scott (April 6, 2017). "A Former MTV Star's Unexpected Second Act, behind the Camera". Artsy. Archived from the original on March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "Soren_Selected Works". EUQINOMprojects. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "Michael Lewis | The Official Website". michaellewiswrites.com. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
- ^ Hampton, Rachelle (December 5, 2018). "My Parents' Work-Life Balance: When Your Parents Are Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren". Slate Magazine. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
- ^ Whiting, Sam (May 28, 2021). "Daughter of author Michael Lewis one of 2 killed in Tahoe car crash". San Francisco Chronicle.