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States. Yuan studied fine art in Taiwan and attended the New York Film Academy. Her work was selected for Grand Prize at Kaunas Biennial (2012). (Photo shot in San Tong, China, 2014.)
Pascal Maitre started working as a photojournalist in 1979 for Jeune Afrique. His numerous reports have lead him all over the world, from Siberia to South America, through Afghanistan and Africa. His photographs have been published in the most eminent French and foreign magazines: Geo France, Geo Germany, L’Express, Paris Match, National Geographic Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, Elle, Stern, Der Spiegel, Life, Terra Mater and more. He has won many prestigious awards and has been exhibited all over the world. He is represented by Cosmos Photo Agency. (Photo shot in Rinconada, Peru, 2014.)
Norah Gustafson was born and raised in the American South. She received her BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her photography emanates from her direct experience of the world, and combines formal, documentary, and experimental techniques. (Photo shot in Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2015.)
35-36 Peruvian photojournalist Oscar Durand discovered visual storytelling by accident, while studying industrial engineering in Lima, Peru. After moving to the United States and graduating from the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Oscar returned to Peru to focus on social issues in Latin America working in photo and video. Oscar’s work has been featured by The New York Times, GlobalPost, PRI’s The World and Glamour, among others. (Photo shot in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015.)
Birte Kaufmann was born 1981 in Germany. She lives and works as a freelance photographer in Cologne and Berlin. (Photo shot in County Kildare, Ireland, 2013. Photo sponsors: Wesley and Dale Trump.)
Joseph Rodriguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In 1985, he graduated with a Photojournalism and Documentary Diploma from the International Center of Photography in New York. He went on to work for print and online news organizations such as National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Esquire, Stern,
and New America Media. He has been awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri (1990, 1992, 1996 and 2002) and is the author of Spanish Harlem, part of the “American Scene” series by the National Museum of American Art/D.A.P. (Photo shot in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2001. Photo sponsor: A Friend of the Festival.)
Arlene Gottfried, a New York City native, has traveled and photographed for The New York Times Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Life Magazine and The Independent in London. She has received numerous awards including The Bernice Abbott International Competition of Women’s Documentary Photography. Gottfried is a lecturer, teacher and gospel singer. (Photo shot in Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2015. Photo sponsors: Buck and Jean Yelverton.)
37-38 Graciela Magnoni travels the world shooting candid street photography. For several years, she worked for ISTOE, a Brazilian news magazine and later moved to New York where she worked for multiple mainstream Brazilian magazines and newspapers. Magnoni received