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the Photography program at LaGuardia Community College. His recent awards include a National Science Foundation Antarctic Fellowship, an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History and a Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant. (Photo shot in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, AK, USA, 2011. Photo sponsors: Jack and Sheila Wiggins.)
Catalina Martin-Chico is a French-Spanish photographer born in 1969. She worked extensively in Yemen during eight years, doing travel stories for GEO magazine as well
as covering the revolution in 2011. Recently, she has focused more on social issues in
the West Indies, in South America and in France, where she lives. She works mostly on assignment, and has been published by Elle, The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Sunday Times, La Repubblica in Italy and more. (Photo shot in Hadibo, Socotra Island, Yemen, 2012. Photo sponsor: Jenny Moore.)
Kevin C. Downs is a New York based photojournalist and documentary photographer. He studied Fine Arts at Pratt Institute and Photography at City College. For the past several years, he has been documenting an area of Corona, Queens, known as the Iron Triangle. Downs’ work has been printed in several leading international publications. He has been represented by Cosmos since 2013. (Photo shot in Rockaway, Queens, NY, USA, 2012.)
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, author and educator, whose photographs and videos have been exhibited at more than 100 international venues. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Open Society Foundation, World Press Photo and Hasselbald among others. Her photographic series, Marine Wedding, was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial 2010 and is considered an iconic work on the Iraq war. Berman is an Associate Professor at Columbia University and is a member of the Amsterdam-based NOOR photo collective. She lives in her hometown of New York City. (Photo shot in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2000.)
23-24 Fatemeh Behboudi, photojournalist and documentary photographer, was born in 1985 in Teheran, Iran. She started professional photography in 2007 and has worked for many Iranian news agencies. Behboudui is the recipient of multiple international awards. (Photo shot in Tehran, Iran, 2015.)
Anahit Hayrapetyan is an Armenian photographer, born in Karabakh in 1981. She
has a master’s degree in computer science. In 2005, Hayrapetyan participated in a photojournalism course organized by World Press Photo and the Caucasus Institute. She later studied at the Danish Media School of Journalism. Her photos have been published in Enter WPPH, Eurasianet.org, FotoEvidence and Le Point, among others. She is a co- founder of 4Plus Documentary Photography Center in Armenia and her photography book, Princess to Slave, was published in 2015 by FotoEvidence. Hayrapetyan is currently based in Germany. (Photo shot in Kaputan Village, Armenia, 2013.)
Cyril Marcilhacy was born in Roubaix, France, in 1981, and now lives in Paris. After studying finance and spending two years in an audit firm, he decided to pursue his passion for reportage and began a career in photojournalism. After training as a photojournalist
at EMI-CFD in Paris from 2009 to 2010, Marcilhacy began his career as a freelance photographer. He joined the Cosmos agency in 2013. (Photo shot in Tripoli, Libya, 2015.)