2010 Istanbul Instructors

Jason Eskenazi

Jason Eskenazi

The fall of the Berlin Wall led Eskenazi out of Queens into the larger world. After trips to Germany and Romania for their first democratic elections he traveled to Russia in 1991, just before the August coup that marked the end of the USSR, and has returned many times since culminating in a photography book [...]

Maggie Steber

Maggie Steber

Maggie Steber has worked as a documentary photographer in 60 countries. Her longtime work in Haiti received the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant.

Jared Moossy

Jared Moossy

Jared Moossy is a Texas-born photographer based in Austin, Texas. His professional career has mainly focused on the changing political and social landscapes of various countries and how conflict has shaped those landscapes.

David Bathgate

David Bathgate

David Bathgate is a freelance photojournalist represented by Corbis Images (Paris Bureau). He is also a contract photographer in Europe for The New York Times.

Jon Vidar

Jon Vidar

Jon Vidar is a freelance photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA He.has developed self-assigned projects spanning six continents, including work in Iraqi Kurdistan, Southeast Turkey, Rwanda, and Brazil.

Rena Effendi

Rena Effendi

Rena Effendi has been photographing since 2001. From the outset, she has focused her documentary work on the oil industry’s effects on people’s lives in her own country, Azerbaijan.

Ron Haviv

Ron Haviv

Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War…

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce is a documentary photographer who brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war’s wake.

Kael Alford

Kael Alford

Kael has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in the Balkans and the Middle East for many US and European magazines and newspapers. Her work from Iraq is included in the book, “Unembedded.”

Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas, born in Sao Paulo, worked as a staff photographer for Folha de S. Paulo traveling extensively throughout Brazil and abroad. Based in Mexico City, she contributes regularly to numerous publications.

Henrik Kastenskov

Henrik Kastenskov

Originally working as a fashion photographer, Henrik Kastenskov produced his first multi media piece in 1996. Heeding his long time passion for ’real life’ he then turned towards photojournalism and the famed Danish School of Photojournalism in 2002.

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair is an American documentary photographer represented by VII photo agency. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she is known for gaining unique access to the most sensitive gender issues and human rights around the world.

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy is a freelance photographer who specializes in documenting endangered cultures and traditional life ways of Asia, Latin America and Africa, and has worked in over 50 countries.

Guy Calaf

Guy Calaf

Guy was born in Italy in 1978 from an American mother and an Italian father. He received a degree in Communication Science from an Italian university and later completed a two- year professional photography course in Milan. Since 2004 Guy’s work has been focused on social issues. He has worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan, Eastern [...]