Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photographer and the founder of Drik Picture Library, a Bangladesh-based photo agency established to promote the work of local photographers. Alam has documented a wide range of events, including the movement for democracy in Bangladesh, natural disasters, human rights and social issues like class inequality, and murders by the “death squads” in Bangladesh. As a result of his work, Alam has received death threats, and in 1996 he was stabbed eight times. In 2018 he was arrested a er publicly criticizing the government’s violent response to student protests. Alam is an outspoken advocate for the correction of human rights injustices.

Alam’s work has been shown in museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, the National Visual Arts Gallery of Malaysia, and the Tate Modern in Britain. He was the rst Asian recipient of the Mother Jones Award for Documentary Photography, and he is an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He received the 2014 Shilpakala Padak, the highest state award given to Bangladeshi artists, and in 2017 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Photography Exhibition in China. In 2018, a er his arrest by the Bangladesh government for speaking out against the abusive treatment of students, he was named one of Time’s Persons of the Year.

child huddled outside surrounded by debris

Nina Berman is an American photographer who has covered the con ict in Bosnia and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. She now focuses attention on the a ermath of war and contemporary political and social landscapes in the US. Her photographs and videos have
been exhibited at over one hundred venues worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Poland, and Dublin Contemporary. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Open Society Foundations, World Press Photo, and Hasselblad, among others. She is an associate

professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a member of NOOR.

woman face shrouded in dark except the right eye

man with prosthetic leg sits on a bed with face in hand

Marcus Bleasdale, a British photographer, documents con ict
and human rights violations, and has extensively covered the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Bleasdale o en works with NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including UNICEF Photo of the Year, an Olivier Rebbot Award, two World Press Photo awards, a grant from the Alexia Foundation, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International. In 2014, he won the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism and in 2015 was awarded the Robert Capa Award. His books include One Hundred Years of Darkness (2003), e Rape of a Nation (2009), and e Unravelling: Central African Republic (co-authored with Peter Bouckaert, 2015)

a hand with a scale. a man calculating and selling goods

crowded hut filled with young and elderly people

Andrea Bruce, an American photographer, has documented numerous con icts and human right violations. For eight years she was a sta photographer with the Washington Post, where
she covered the Iraq War. She is now a member of NOOR photo agency, and has covered con ict and crisis in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kashmir, and Afghanistan, among other locations.

Bruce’s awards include top honors from the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been named Photographer of the Year four times), several awards from the Pictures of the Year International contest, and the John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. In 2012, she was the rst recipient of the Chris Hondros Fund Award for the “commitment, willingness and sacri ce shown in her work.” She was a member of the Nieman Fellow class of 2016 at Harvard University.

mother stands over a dead child in the dark dwelling

Ron Haviv, an award-winning American photojournalist and Emmy-nominated lmmaker, is a co-founder of the photo agency VII, which is dedicated to documenting con ict and increasing awareness of human rights issues around the world. His rst book, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal (2000), was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non- ction books of the year. Newsweek called it a “chilling but vastly important record of a people’s su ering.” Haviv’s other books include Afghanistan: e Road to Kabul (2002), Haiti: 12 January 2010 (2010), and e Lost Rolls (2015).

Haviv, who has covered over twenty- ve con icts and documented in over one hundred countries, has had work featured in museums and galleries, among them the Louvre, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations. His photographs are in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
and the George Eastman House, as well as in numerous private collections. Haviv is the recipient of many photography awards, including the Leica Medal of Excellence, multiple Pictures of the Year International awards, and multiple World Press Photo awards; and a photo of Haviv’s from Bosnia was named one of the 100 most in uential images in the history of photography.

man covered in blood about to be hit by a man with a stick

Eman Helal is an Egyptian photographer based in Cairo. She covered the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its a ermath, including a project on injured protesters as well as work on sectarian violence against Christians, especially a er the 2013 military coup. She also focuses on social issues, such as the physical and sexual harassment of women in Egypt, and efforts to empower women there. She
has freelanced for the Associated Press, where her photos were distributed internationally, and her images have appeared in the New York Times, Stern, and Newsweek, among other publications.

Helal was named one of Magnum Foundation’s ve Human Rights Fellows in 2013, and returned to work with the Foundation again as a Fellow in 2016. She judged the Shawkan Photo Award
in 2015, and both the Egypt Press Photo Award and the Portenier Human Rights Bursary competition in 2016. Helal’s work has
been exhibited in the Museum of Photography in Braunschweig,

Germany, the Pil’ours International Photo Festival in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France, the DOCField 15 photography festival in Barcelona, Spain, and the Addis Photo Festival in Ethiopia, among other venues.

Alexander Joe worked for over three decades as a wire photographer. Born in Zimbabwe, he began his career there (when the country was called Rhodesia), rst as a freelancer and later
as sta with the Rhodesia Herald. He subsequently moved to London and worked for e Times of London, e Observer, and the Daily Mail. He then returned to Zimbabwe and worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP), where he covered thirteen countries, documenting multiple wars, famines, and protests, among other social and political strife. During this time, he also covered Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Joe was later based in Nairobi, Kenya and his nal posting with AFP was in Johannesburg, South Africa for over a decade. Joe is now based in Madagascar as a freelancer. He has twice served on the World Press Photo jury.

Benjamin Lowy is an American photographer, known for his work in war zones. He was a student in 2001 when he documented the second intifada in the West Bank and Gaza, and, at age twenty- three, was one of the youngest professionals to cover the Iraq War. Lowy has covered Afghanistan, Darfur, and Libya, among other places of con ict, as well as crises like the earthquake in Haiti. He distinguished himself through his iPhone photography and has received awards from World Press Photo, the International Center of Photography (In nity Award for Photojournalism), and the Pictures of the Year International competition. His book Iraq | Perspectives was published in 2011.

Susan Meiselas, an American photographer who has documented con ict and human rights issues, has been active in the field of photography for four decades. Some of her photos from the insurrection in Nicaragua in the late 1970s are widely considered iconic, and her subsequent documentation of the Salvadoran civil war, including the El Mozote massacre, in the early 1980s has received broad acclaim. In the early 1990s, as a MacArthur Fellow, she collected a visual history of Kurdistan.

Meiselas has won many awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Hasselblad Award, the Cornell Capa Infinity Award, the Harvard Arts Medal, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Meiselas is a member of Magnum Photos.

Spencer Platt, an American photojournalist on sta with the
Getty Images wire service, has covered the Iraq War, the plight of displaced Congolese, the minority Kurds in Turkey, the con ict in the Central African Republic, ghting in Gaza, Syrians displaced by the country’s ongoing civil war, the Peshmerga and refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the recent war in Ukraine, among other places and peoples in crisis.

Platt has won numerous honors for his work, including multiple awards from the Pictures of the Year International competition and the NPPA Year in Pictures. In 2007, Platt received the World Press Photo of the Year award for an image taken in Beirut, Lebanon.

Newsha Tavakolian is a self-taught Iranian photographer with Magnum Photos. At eighteen, she was the youngest professional photographer to cover the 1999 Iranian student uprisings. In 2002, she began working internationally, with her coverage of the war

in Iraq, and since then has worked in Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, and Lebanon, among other places of turmoil. She has documented contentious national elections, regional conflicts, and natural disasters, and has created social documentary projects. Her photography ranges from strict reportage of politics and crisis to portraits and evocative series on socially engaged themes, including class concerns, female fighters, and the impact of sanctions on individual lives.

Tavakolian’s work has appeared in publications such as Time, Newsweek, Stern, Le Figaro, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and National Geographic. It has also been shown in museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum,

and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2014, Tavakolian won a Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, and a year later was named the Principal Prince Claus Laureate.

Laurent Van der Stockt, born in Belgium, is a photojournalist based out of Paris. He has concentrated on photographing areas of conflict throughout his career, for instance, in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kuwait, and Iraq. His images have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Match, Le Monde, Newsweek, Stern, Time, and El País, among other publications. He has been wounded while on assignment on multiple occasions, including injuries sustained in Vukovar during the Balkan Wars, Ramallah in 2001, and Fallujah in 2005.

vVan der Stockt helped break the news of chemical weapons use by Syria in 2013, and during his career has been awarded several prizes, among them the Paris Match Visa d’Or prize, the Bayeux Prize for war correspondents, and the Festival Prize for the Scoop d’Angers, which he won four times between 1991 and 1996. In 2017, he won the Visa d’Or for News for his coverage of the Battle of Mosul in Iraq and rst prize in General News from World Press Photo.