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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 Match and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography — Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul – and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books.

With a special focus on exposing human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. Most recently, he has documented wars in Darfur and the DR Congo.

His often-searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars, and numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the United Nations, The Louvre and The Council on Foreign Relations.

Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The Serbian-made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which has featured in film festival worldwide, examines Haviv as a witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC and The Best Damn Sports Show Ever.

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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 War, the quakes and tsunamis in Indonesia and Chile, the Egyptian revolution, life in India’s slums, gold mining in Peru, the 2006 Hezbollah/Israeli war, the Georgian/Russian war in 2008, the conflict in Israel/Palestine and the US led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Michael was named second place Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International in 2010 and won an Award of Excellence in the same contest and category in 2008. Michael won the Scripps Howard National Award for Photojournalism in 2008 and has twice been named  Photographer of the Year by The White House News Photographers’ Association. He has also received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Society of Newspaper Design.

His work has been exhibited widely, including the Visa Pour l’image festival in France, which showed his 10-year project on Peru and photos from the 2010 Chilean earthquake, as well as at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, Imagenes Havana in Cuba, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , and Ojo Ajeno in Lima, Peru. He had his photographs from the Lebanon/Israeli war of 2006 exhibited at the War Photo Ltd. Gallery in Dubrovnik and at the Museu Memorial de l’Exili in Spain. American Photography’s 25^th Anniversary book featured photographs from the Georgia/Russian war which were also shown at the photo festival in Arles, France.

He has recently published a book of his photographs from Peru: “Awaiting the Rain.” In addition he teaches and lectures at workshops throughout the world including Mexico, India, Egypt, Peru, United States and El Salvador.

http://www.robinsonchavez.com/

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 weekly column for The Post called “Unseen Iraq.”

Her awards include top honors from the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been named Photographer of the Year four times), the International Pictures of the Year contest, and the prestigious John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York.

She has also been a finalist for The Aftermath Project grant as well as the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship.

She was the recipient of the first-ever Inge Morath grant by Magnum Photos, The Canon Female Photojournalist award for her work in Kashmir, and a grant from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.
Vitale’s photographs have been published in major international magazines such as National Geographic, Adventure, Geo, Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian and Le Figaro, among others. They have also been presented in international exhibitions including: Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan, France; Reporters Sans Frontiers, Paris; the FotoArt Festival in Poland; the Open Society Institute and The United Nations in New York.

Now based in Washington, DC, Vitale is a contract photographer with National Geographic and is producing a book and exhibit for the Nature Conservancy about threatened environments around the world.

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Kael covered the US invasion of Iraq and worked there until 2004. Her photography from Iraq focuses on the birth of the Iraqi resistance groups, and the impact of the US invasion on security and the lives of Iraqi civilians. That work was included in the book and exhibition “Unembedded: Four Independent Journalists on the War in Iraq” (Chelsea Green, 2005).

She is currently working on a multimedia project documenting coastal erosion in southeast Louisiana and the impact of environmental degradation on the communities there. The photography is commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She has taught writing and photojournalism at the American University in Bulgaria and documentary photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. She is currently a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and is represented by Panos Pictures in London. Kael has a degree in English Literature from Boston University and a MA in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

She was born in Middletown, NY, 1971.

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Her project on Faith in Brazil and Mexico was awarded a Art & Worship World Prize by the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation and a book is currently under production to be published by Bei Editores in São Paulo, Brasil. She was a nominee for the New York Photo Awards 2009 and 2010 and is an instructor with the Foundry Photojournalism Workshops.

Adriana was also one of the three photographers selected to be profiled in the documentary “Women Photographers”, produced by The Knight Center for International Media and the University of Miami, scheduled to be released in March/April 2011.

She’s currently based out of Mexico City and available for assignments anywhere (fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish).

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Represented by Polaris Images in NYC.

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Henrik has worked extensively in Latin America, the Balkans and the Middle East documenting the impact of war and poverty on the under priviliged.
With a keen interest in online story telling and an emphasis on sound in multimedia he’s just completed one years work on a multimedia piece on Danish combat soldiers in Afghanistan.

Henrik’s been awarded several times including NPPA’s ’Best of Photojournalism – independent media’ in 2006 for the multimedia piece ”The Ardoyne Suicides” shot and co-produced with longtime friend and colleague in Bombay Flying Club, Poul Madsen.

”Storytelling on the web is still only in an infant state – this is the moment of defining the rules of the narrative, and I want to be part of that”.

Henrik has worked as an intern at Morgenavisen Jylands-Posten and as a staff photographer at 24 Timer. Today he works as a freelance photojournalist and independent multimedia producer.

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His stock images have been featured by Prentice Hall, Peter Owen Publishers, Overseas Adventure Travel, Wilderness Travel, Rotary International, Things Asian, PSA, Asia Society of New York, Kumuka Worldwide Expeditions, Grand Circle Tours, and Guatours, Emory University & the University of Arizona. He also co-juried Diversity of Devotion, a photo-documentary project and competition, which explored the varied and unique religious and spiritual beliefs of NYC.

His interest in photographing cultural ceremonies and tribal ritualshas resulted in documentary coverage of the Maha Kumbh Mela & Pushkar Camel Fair of India; the 2,000-year-old performance-ritual of Theyyam in Kerala; Timket & Hamer Bullah (Jumping of the Bulls) ceremony of Ethiopia; Holy Week & Easter Processions of Guatemala; the Entrada Universitaria Folkloric Festival of Bolivia, the ritualistic dances of the Advisasis of Chhattisgarh, the Tantric-based dances of Bhutan and the violent exorcisms practiced in various Sufi shrines of India.

He presented “Path of the Novices: A photo journey in the Buddhist monasteries of India, Laos, Burma and Bhutan” at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in NewYork City. This audio-visual presentation of over 125 photographs focused on the daily lives of novices in the Buddhist monasteries of Dharmasala, Sikkim, Burma (Myanmar), the Kingdom of Bhutan and Laos.

His photographic interest is expanding into producing multimedia stories, merging still photography and ambient sound (generally recorded live while I am photographing), and musical soundtracks. The most recent are White Shadows and Supplicants of Bahadur Shaheed, which were produced in Vrindavan and Varanasi (India). These multimedia stories are found on his main website.

He also leads by invitation-only photography tours to India and to the Himalayan Kingdoms of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, and Indochina.

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Blog: www.tesimages.com (thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com)

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 Congo, Darfur and Sri Lanka.

In 2006 Guy moved to Ethiopiaʼs capital Addis Ababa, where he humbly explored the countryʼs social dynamics at every level, from the small sub cultures in its larger cities to the changing lives of rural communities whose social structures have been so dramatically altered in the last century.

At the same time, he had the opportunity to travel across the continent as a contributor to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and LʼEspresso. He was one of the few journalists to cover the 2006 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, a country that he visited six times between 2006 and 2008.

While living in Ethiopia Guy developed a greater appreciation for his role as a documentary photographer working in a developing country. He decided to produce work that would help balance the contrast between the realities of the cultures and how they are portrayed in the mainstream media, a gap that too often leads to harmful misunderstandings and stereotypes.

In mid 2009 Guy moved to New York where he will live for 4 years while his wife completes her postgraduate studies in Public Health and Non Profit Management at Columbia and NYU.

While living in New York, Guy is focusing on contrasts in America, a country with enormous concentrated wealth and disarming poverty and despair.

After living for almost one year with American paratroopers in South Eastern Afghanistan in 2005, Guy has decided to embark in a long-term project to visually describe his thoughts on the American occupation of the country. Since 2010, Guy has spent 4 months in the countryʼs Kunar province.

A network of agents represent Guy, including: Polaris Images; Focus Agentur; Luz Photos; Cosmos Photos; and Agency.Photographer.Ru.

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