Do1Thing welcomes Kristen Ashburn
Kristen Ashburn’s photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many publications worldwide. Her accolades include a 2007 Emmy Award nomination, two World Press Photo prizes, a Getty Grant in 2006, Canon’s Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and other honors. She began photographing the impact of AIDS in southern Africa in 2001, and since then has also produced stories on the war in Iraq, Jewish settlers, suicide bombers in Israel’s occupied territories, the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
In addition to her social documentary photography, Ashburn is one of the directors of Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, a charity that teaches photography to Rwandan orphans of the 1994 genocide and supports them through the sale of their images. Ashburn lives in New York City
and is represented by Contact Press Images.
Her book, I Am Because We Are, that focuses on the AIDS crisis in southern Africa, will be released by PowerHouse Books in January 2009.
