On a reporting trip to Ukraine in 2008, Nadine Epstein became fascinated by her shadow on the land on which her ancestors had trodden, inspiring nearly a decade of insightful, fluid digital images that make up her iShadow Project. Since then she has made impermanence fixed, taking thousands of photographs of shadows during her travels around the world as a magazine publisher, editor and writer. The photographs, largely self-portraits, are steeped in culture, history and environment, often with spiritual overtones. In them, variables such as surface texture (natural and manmade), the time of day, the wind and moisture in the air as well as attire; hair and hormones combine with the unending line and movement of the human shape, not to mention the filters of light, soul and experience.

On April 17 at 5 p.m., Ms. Epstein will give a talk in the Gallery on her photos and on her most recent book, Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy, published September 2018. A reception will follow the talk.

Ms. Epstein is editor-in-chief and CEO of Moment Magazine, and founder of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative. She is a 1978 Penn graduate with both a BA and an MA in international relations and was a University Fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. A lifelong multimedia artist and keeper of drawing journals, her recent iShadow Project photography, as seen in a 2017 Penn Gazette article, has been featured in solo exhibitions and group shows.

The Burrison Gallery is located in the University Club at Penn on the 2nd floor of The Inn at Penn, 3611 Walnut Street, and is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.