Articles and Reviews

Black & White Magazine: Dmitri Kasterine's Portraits by Joe Staines

When Dmitri Kasterine first showed Dirk Bogarde the photograph he’d taken of him, the film actor witheringly described it as "the carapace of an aging turtle." It’s typical of Kasterine’s generosity that he wasn’t offended by Bogarde’s response, regarding it as proof that he’d managed to get behind the performer’s façade ...

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Conscientious by Jörg M Colberg: Newburgh by Dmitri Kasterine

Kasterine took to photographing this city, producing a great many wonderful portraits, and it is now our duty to look at them ...

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NPR Picture Show: An Octogenarian's Opus by Jordan G. Teicher

Kasterine was immediately drawn to the crumbling Victorian houses, the neglected buildings, and, most strikingly, the unassuming grace of the people on the street. But when he tried to take his first photo, his subject told him to go away. Still, Kasterine returned, and kept coming back for the next 16 years. "Nobody has ever done quite this," Kasterine says, "which is to say, 'Look at these beautiful people ...' 

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The Guardian: Photographer Dmitri Kasterine's Best Shot

I took this in 1969, during the filming of A Clockwork Orange ... The structure you can see is a camera platform, and we were sheltering from the rain underneath it. I was chatting with Stanley Kubrick ...

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The Roundtable: Photographer, Dmitri Kasterine with Joe Donahue

Only 57 miles outside New York City on the Hudson River, the city of Newburgh has fallen from the status of "All American City" awarded by Look Magazine in 1952, to in 1981 being put on a Federal list of most distressed areas ... 

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The Roundtable: Dmitri Kasterine with Joe Donahue

The Royal Photographic Society: The Lady with Cat by Rod Fry ARPS

There is no political agenda, no strong urge to document, only the desire to make a picture of a scene that the photographer was intuitively drawn to. There is innocence, with a mutually complicit agreement between the lady and the photographer in the making of this picture ...

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The London Column

Reports from the life of a city, from 1951 to now

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Barrow boy, World’s End by Joanna Blachnio

Hailing a cab, Mayfair by Tim Turnbull

Croquet, Hurlingham Club by David Secombe

Man with cigar, Putney by Andrew Martin

Trainspotters by Andrew Martin

Chronogram Magazine: Portfolio: Newburgh by Faheem Haider

Dmitri Kasterine is a really good listener. And he’s got a good eye too: Kasterine won’t fail to notice the discrete changes, moment to moment, in the way you want yourself to look to others ...

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Old Radleian: News & Notes: Dmitri Kasterine 

I’ve been a photographer for 49 years. The National Portrait Gallery recently acquired 24 of my portraits of writers and artists taken between 1965 (Samuel Beckett) and 2008 (John Richardson) ...

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CBS News: Faces and places of Newburgh NY by Heba Kanso

In 1996 photographer Dmitri Kasterine started taking photos of people and abandoned buildings around the Newburgh, New York. His unnamed portraits were compiled in a book "Newburgh: Portrait of a City" where he states, "This is a record of uncelebrated and ignored people..."

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CBS News: Faces and places of Newburgh NY

Mid Hudson Times: Beauty and Tragedy captures life in Newburgh

by Katelyn Cordero

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XLSemanal: Mis Gigantes Preferidos

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Gallery show in Bologna, Italy of Dmitri's Clockwork Orange photos

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GQ Italia: 45 anni di Arancia Meccanica

La Stampa: Arancia Meccanica, in Mostra

Il Post: Le foto dal set di Arancia Meccanica