Lowell Handler

Lowell Handler is a former Black Star contract photographer-journalist whose pictures have appeared in Life, Newsweek, Elle, U.S. News & World Report, The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, Hippocrates, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, as well as many international journals from Brazil to Japan.

Lowell’s first book, TWITCH & SHOUT (Penguin 1998) was profiled in The New York Times Book Review, and called by Entertainment Weekly "A mind-bending account of a mind-boggling affliction." The author's other written work has been published in The New York Observer, Health, and the American Psychological Association's Contemporary Psychology. In 1996 PBS aired an Emmy-nominated film of the same name, in which Handler served as associate producer, presenter, and narrator.