Neal Slavin is an American photographer and film director born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and was awarded an exchange student scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford. Slavin is known for his documentary photography, particularly his work on the Portuguese people during the 1960s, which he captured while on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1968. His first book, 'Portugal' (1971), focuses on the sociological phenomena and fatalism of the Iberian Peninsula under the dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Beyond photography, Slavin has directed and produced films, including 'Focus' (2001). He was one of the first Fulbright Fellows in Photography and has received numerous awards from Communication Arts Magazine and his alma mater, Cooper Union.[1,2,3]
