Elevating Voices of Women + Non-Binary Visual Storytellers
Daniella Zalcman, Kenna Klosterman
Elevating Voices of Women + Non-Binary Visual Storytellers
Daniella Zalcman, Kenna Klosterman
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WE ARE PHOTOGRAPHERS PODCAST:
Our weekly audio podcast We Are Photographers brings you true stories from behind the lens and behind the lives of your favorite photographers, filmmakers, and creative industry game-changers. From their struggles to their wins, host Kenna Klosterman discovers the real human stories about why they do what they do.
Listen to this and other audio episodes on our audio Podcast page.
ABOUT DANIELLA ZALCMAN:
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based between Paris and New York. She is a multiple grantees of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph, an initiative working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists.
Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24.
Daniella is also a proud member of the Authority Collective and Diversify Photo, one of the co-authors of the Photo Bill of Rights, and a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.