Stanley Greene (February 14, 1949 – May 19, 2017) was an American photojournalist, he was a painter for many years before turning to photography in 1970. Two years later he enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York, and in 1973 transferred to Image Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975 Greene enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute ... Read morewhere he received both a BFA and an MFA in photography by 1980. At the same time he co-founded Camera Work Gallery with five other photographers in San Francisco. In 1980, Greene began working for publications including the San Francisco Examiner and Rolling Stone. In 1986, he moved to Paris. While working for the Paris-based photo agency Agence Vu in October 1993, Greene was trapped and almost killed in the White House in Moscow during a stand-off between President Boris Yeltsin and the parliament. He covered the war-torn countries Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iraq, Somalia, Croatia, Kashmir, and Lebanon.[3][4] He took pictures of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994[4] and the US Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Stanley Greene co-founded NOOR Agency with fellow photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen in 2007. They launched their agency with their colleagues on September 7, 2007, at Visa Pour L'Image. Greene died in Paris, at the age of 68. Show Less