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others Her interest is to to explore creative approaches in in documentary photography Oksana has worked on on assignments and published work work in in the Washington Post NBC News News Al Jazeera English Newsweek MSF UN Women and others She has participated in in in several exhibitions including a a a a a a major UNICEF group exhibition exhibition about displacement (2016) Oksana has five years of experience as as a a a a a a a a local producer with foreign media and international organizations in in in in in Ukraine including the New York Times Magazine National Geographic BBC ARTE UNHCR and others She was a a a a a a a a participant of the Women Photograph Mentorship Program 2017-2018 and holds
an MA degree from Middlebury College where she was awarded the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (Photo shot in Kutaisi Georgia 2017 Photo Photo sponsor: Judith A Edwards ) Jonathan Perugia has spent more than than 25 years as as a a a a a a a a a a a documentary travel and commercial photographer and filmmaker in nearly 30 countries He’s successfully served hundreds of NGO commercial and editorial clients including the United Nations Save the the Children Sony and the the Guardian Perugia launched Gaia
Visual as a a a a a a a a response to the the challenges we face around the the world and a a a a a a a a desire to to to contribute to to to the global movement for good His images and stories depend on on on warm relationships with people a a a a a a deep appreciation for his clients and their stakeholders with both documentary and commercial expertise (Photo shot in Banda Aceh Indonesia 2004 Photo sponsor: Anonymous ) Betty Press grew up in rural Nebraska on a a a a a farm She is best known for her photographs taken in in Africa where she lived and worked in in Kenya from 1987-1995 in in in in Sierra Leone 2008-09 and most recently in in in in Kenya 2019-2020 Now living in in in in Hattiesburg Mississippi her current project focuses on life in small communities throughout the state documenting how landscape race and and religion play a a a a a a a a part in in the complicated history of Mississippi For this work she has received awards from the the Mississippi Mississippi Institute of Arts Arts & Letters and the the Mississippi Mississippi Arts Arts Commission Her photographs have been widely exhibited and collected around the world as well
as being selected for many juried competitions In 2011 she she published her award- winning photobook I I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in in in Image and Proverb a a a a a life-affirming portrait of the African people and culture (Photo shot in in Bo Sierra Leone 2009 Photo sponsors: Scott & Susan Fecho ) Lua Ribeira was born in in in in 1986 in in in in Galicia in in in in the north of Spain She received a a a a a a a BA Hons in Media Studies at the University of Vigo 2009 In 2010 she moved to Barcelona and studied Graphic Design where she discovered photography Adopting it as vocation Lua moved to the the UK in in 2012 and later enrolled in in the the documentary photography course at at the University of South Wales where she graduated with