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Charity Tooze is a freelance journalist and scholar in international affairs. She traveled to Syria and Jordan in the summer of 2009 to document the plight of Iraqi refugees. She has sense published several articles for Anderson Cooper's website, PBS World Focus, Huffington Post, and she is currently finishing a documentary. Prior to this project Charity was the executive producer for a television show, Rites of Passage, by and for young women. To find out more about her project on refugees or to donate to her work, you can contact her directly at, charity@charitytooze.com
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Zein Salti began her journey into photography when she was 15. Zein has published a book about her journey called, My Journey to Self Discovery, which chronicles images she took in Jordan, Lebanon, Africa, and Canada. In 2007 she participated in a photography competition: "Amman in a Picture." She was nominated as one of the top 40 candidates. Zein is currently finishing her bachelors degree in Canada. She is a native of Amman, Jordan
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Jake Price is a New York based photographer
who has covered the effects of war and poverty
throughout the world.
His work has taken him Kosovo,
Pakistan, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Haiti,
amongst other countries. For his work in Africa
and Kosovo, he worked extensively with the Nobel
Prize-winning organisation Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors
Without Borders).
In the summer of 2006, along
with Jamie Wellford, senior foreign editor at
Newsweek, he launched SeenUnseen, a website
and program of slide shows by photojournalism's
leading photographers to address important issues
that affect out world but increasingly do not
receive coverage in the ever-decreasing market
for news.
His work appears in Newsweek,
BBC online, The New York Times, TIME, The Village
Voice, and Le Monde2.
He has exhibited in the Leica
Gallery, New York, The Simon Wiesenthal Center,
Los Angeles, and Alliance Francias, New York,
amongst others.
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A native of Ohio, Liz O. Baylen graduated with honors from Ohio University's School of Visual Communications in 2001, and began her career at The Washington Times.
During her five years at the Times, she concentrated on in-depth photo essays, specializing in covering psychological trauma, and in the process, has become a leading chronicler of mental health issues.
Liz left the Washington Times to pursue a freelance career in New York. She quickly developed a client base that included The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, and numerous European magazines.
Her assignments have taken her around the world to locations including Lebanon, Korea, the Caucauses, and Guantanamo Bay. While with The Washington Times, Liz was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her contribution to the staff's coverage of the DC sniper in 2002.
Liz has also won numerous awards for her work, including multiple honors in the Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International Competition, as well as the White House News Photographers Association. In November 2007, she joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times. She is currently based in Los Angeles. |
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