Jason Eskenazi
The fall of the Berlin Wall led me out of Queens into the larger world. After trips to Germany and Romania for their first democratic elections I traveled to Russia in 1991, just before the August coup that marked the end of the USSR, and have returned many times since culminating in a photography book...
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. A collection of the Haiti photographs was published in “Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti”, by Aperture. She was a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine for 4 years...
Jared Moossy
Jared Moossy is a Texan born documentary photographer based in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City in May of 2008 and is currently represented by Redux Pictures in New York City. His interest in photography goes hand in hand with his interest in current events and social issues. His professional career has mostly...
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. Holding a Ph.D. in anthropology and master’s degree in journalism, his work frequently centers on other cultures, social systems different from those in the West and political situations that affect...
Jon Vidar
Jon Vidar is a freelance photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA. He works regularly for the Associated Press and his photos have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today and NEED Magazine – among many others. In 2009 he was one of eight fellows for the...
Rena Effendi
Born in 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Rena Effendi has been photographing since 2001. From the outset, Effendi has focused her documentary work on the oil industry’s effects on people’s lives in her own country. As a result, she followed a 1,700 km oil pipeline through Georgia and Turkey, collecting stories along the way. This work...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors / Mexico 2008 Instructors
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...
2012 Thailand Instructors / Argentina 2011 Instructors / India 2009 Instructors / Istanbul 2010 Instructors
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...
Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair, b. 1973, 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. Sinclair graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Journalism and Mass Communications and an outside...
