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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. A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris...
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Michael Robinson Chavez
Michael Robinson Chávez has been a photographer at The Los Angeles Times since 2007 and lives on a farm outside of Los Angeles, California. Prior to that, he worked for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Associated Press. He has covered wide-ranging international assignments in over 45 countries including: the Congolese Civil...
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Andrea Bruce
Through documentary photography, Andrea Bruce brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. For the past eight years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas as a staff photographer for The Washington Post. Five of those years have taken her to the Middle East, where she is now based. She writes a...
Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale, best known for her cultural documentation, has received recognition for her work from World Press Photo, the NPPA, International Photos of the Year, and Photo District News, and the South Asian Journalists Association presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia. She was the recipient of the first-ever...
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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 including Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The New York Times, Times (London), The Guardian, The San Fransisco Chronicle, NRC Handelsbad (Netherlands), Vanity Fair, and others. She was based in...
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Adriana Zehbrauskas
Adriana Zehbrauskas was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She received her degree in Journalism in 1989 and moved to Paris where she studied Linguistics and Phonetics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.She worked as a staff photographer for Folha de S. Paulo, in Brazil, for 11 years, traveling extensively throughout the country and abroad.As a free-lancer, she...
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Henrik Kastenskov
Henrik Kastenskov was born and raised in Denmark just north of Copenhagen in 1966. Originally working as a fashion photographer, he 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. Henrik has worked extensively...
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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. His images, articles and photo features have been published in various magazines including Outdoor Photography, and Digital Photographer. His stock images have been featured by Prentice...
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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...








