From the Archive: The 76th Academy Awards

The 76th Academy Awards Red Carpet, 2004 © Marissa Roth

The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2003 - year of 'Finding Nemo' and 'Sea Biscuit' - and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Between 1982 and 2004 Marissa covered seventeen Academy Awards! In the early days she would have been in the single row of photographers on the red carpet, a mere couple of feet from Meryl Streep; over time it became "a paparazzi nightmare" with dozens of guys with cameras shouting and jockeying for position.

Marissa was at this particular Oscars™ for Entertainment Weekly magazine, a long-standing client.

Black & White Magazine Feature

Black & White Magazine is THE publication for collectors of fine photography. Writer and photographer Mark Edward Harris interviewed Marissa for the new issue (#82, cover date April 2011) about her experiences as a well traveled photojournalist. "Roth’s assignments for publications including Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times have ranged from spot news coverage of a coup attempt in the Philippines in 1989 and the first post-communist elections in Hungary in 1990 to the 1992 L.A. Riot and the 1994 Northridge earthquake." They go on to discuss the impact of her first trip to the Philippines in 1987, her 25-year global photo essay 'One Person Crying: Women and War', and more. Accompanied by a concise sampling of her images, the article is a great start to the new year.

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