Photographers
Biographies
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Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times and National Geographic, among other publications.
Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996—with no professional photographic training or studies–and started photographing conflict and humanitarian issues in 2000, when she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan for the New York Times Magazine, in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Time. She also covers feature stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.
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Paula Bronstein
Paula Bronstein is a senior staff photographer with Getty Images since 2002. She has been working as a photojournalist for over 25 years covering a variety of news and features, natural disasters, wars, and conflict zones. After September 11, 2001 she was assigned to cover Pakistan and Afghanistan, and continues to cover the issues closely in the region, especially Afghanistan.
She has exhibited in many different countries and won numerous awards for her work over the years, including the World Press Photo to Overseas Press Club-John Faber award, Pictures of the Year (POY-I), National Press Photographer’s Assoc. (NPPA), and China’s Photo of the year.
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Jean Chung
Jean Chung is an award-winning photographer who had gained international acclaim for her photographic documentations especially in Afghanistan and Africa.
Jean is a graduate of University of Missouri School of Journalism’s Master’s program in May 2003. After moving back to her native Seoul, Korea, she began working in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa since 2004.
Her work has been featured in various publications such as International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time Asia, French GEO, Vanity Fair (Italy) and Boston Globe, among others.
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Ron Haviv
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War.
A co-founder of the photo agency VII, his work is published by magazines worldwide. Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the Louvre, United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has published critically acclaimed collections of his photograph with the books, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul and Haiti: January 12,2010.
Haviv has been the central character in three films including National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk that explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on, ABC World News, BBC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and The Charlie Rose Show.
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Jared Moossy
Jared Moossy, born in Texas and based in Brooklyn, is a member of Razon, an international collective of visual storytellers. Jared graduated from Parsons School of Design and his interest in photography goes hand in hand with in his interest in current events and social issues.
Jared’s professional career has primarily been focused on Afghanistan and Mexico’s internal war on drugs. He attended the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2008 and won the PDN Photo Annual and the Marty Forcher fellowship fund in 2008. His work has been published in Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Stern and others.
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Moises Saman
Moises Saman was born in Lima, Peru in 1974 and grew up in Spain until his late teenage years, then relocating to the United States to study Communications and Sociology. Moises started working as a professional photographer in New York and spent time as a Staff Photographer at New York Newsday. Since 2001 Moises has concentrated on covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as projects in Pakistan, Nepal, Cuba, Haiti, Lebanon, Central Asia and South America. In 2007 Saman received a World Press Photo award for his coverage of the presidential elections in Haiti, as well as being named Photographer of the Year by the New York Press Photographers Association.
He lives in New York City and is a regular contributor for The New York Times, Newsweek, and Human Rights Watch, among other international clients.
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Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair is an American photojournalist known for gaining unique access to the most sensitive gender and human rights issues around the world. After graduating from the University of Florida she went to work for the Chicago Tribune which sent her to cover the start of the war in Iraq. She is a member of the VII agency and contributes regularly to National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, Stern, German Geo and Marie Claire among others, and is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Sinclair’s work has won many awards including the Alexia Foundation Professional Grant, UNICEF’s Photo of the Year and the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism Freelens Award. Sinclair has also won two World Press Photo awards.
An exhibition of her work titled “Self-Immolation in Afghanistan” was included as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2010 Biennial.
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Abbie Trayler-Smith
Abbie Trayler-Smith was born in 1977 and grew up in South Wales. Whilst studying for her law degree at Kings College London she began taking photographs for the student newspaper. Completely self-taught, she began working for the Daily Telegraph on a regular basis after graduating in 1998. She was given a full time contract for the paper in 2001.
Nine years on she has completed a huge variety of assignments: from the final burial of Haile Selassi in Ethiopia to the forgotten war in Sudan, the
famine crisis in Malawi and anniversaries at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii and the Falkland Islands. More recently she covered the tsunami and re-visited Banda Aceh one year on. She has visited Iraq, photographed the Rwandan killing fields for the ten-year anniversary and reported on the conflict in Darfur, Sudan with the veteran journalist Bill Deedes.
In September 2006, Abbie resigned from her contract position at The Daily Telegraph in order to freelance for a wider variety of clients and devote more time to personal projects. She is now represented by Panos Pictures in London.
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Véronique de Viguerie
Veronique de Viguerie is a French photographer. Having completed a master’s degree in law, she travelled to England to study photojournalism. She spent 3 years living and working in Afghanistan, and since 2006 has been covering stories around the world, including in Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, India, Bangladesh, Israel, Kashmir, Cameroon, Algeria, Guatemala, etc.
Veronique’s work is regularly published in Newsweek, the New York Times, Stern, Paris Match, GEO, Figaro magazine, Marie Claire, The Guardian, La Repubblica, and has been printed in countless other titles.
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Farzana Wahidy
Farzana Wahidy was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. After the Taliban came to power and prohibited the education of women she secretly attended an underground school. She completed high school and attended a program sponsored by ANA photojournalism institute. In 2008 Farzana began working part-time for Agence-France Presse and became the first female Afghan photojournalist to work for an international wire service. Later Farzana joined the Associated Press news agency.
She was one of four recipients of the Merit Awards from the All Roads Film Project and Photography Program sponsored by National Geographic in 2008 and in 2009 she received a gold award in the portrait category in the College Photographer of the Year competition at the University of
