Freelance Photojournalist nadiashiracohen
Nadia Shira Cohen is a freelance photojournalist contributing to the New York Times, National Geographic, Harpers and many international publications. She works frequently in Latin America as well as countries such as Haiti, Kazakhstan, Congo, Rwanda, and Kosovo, focusing on human rights, reproductive rights, environmental issues, disaster, revolution, and migration. Nadia was born in Boston in 1977. At 15 she received her first camera, in the same moment she was diagnosed with cancer. She began to make self-portraits to document the physical and emotional evolution of being sick as well as to photograph her fellow oncology patients at Mass General Hospital in Boston. A University of Vermont graduate, she began her career in New York City as a stringer for the Associated Press. She became proficient in the photography business, working as a photography agent at Sipa Press and later as the Director of North America for VII Photo Agency. Nadia moved to Rome in 2007 where she has been based since, save for a brief period in Geneva while becoming a staff photographer at the ICRC. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is an IWMF Fellow and a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant recipient for her work on gold mining in Romania. Her work has been exhibited in Russia, Brussels, Mexico, Italy, and Peru.
En Español
Nadia Shira Cohen es una fotoperiodista freelance y corresponsal de The New York Times. Ella trabaja con frecuencia en América Latina, así como en Haití, Kazajstán, Congo, Ruanda y Kosovo, centrándose en los derechos humanos, los derechos reproductivos, los problemas ambientales, los desastres, la revolución, la migración entre otros temas. Ella empezó su carrera en Nueva York, trabajando como fotógrafa independiente para el Associated Press. Ella también ha trabajado con Sipa Press y fue la directora para América del Norte para VII Photo. En el 2007 ella se mudó para Roma, donde se comprometió a la fotografía otra vez como fotógrafa y editora para Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja. En el 2011 ella recibió una beca del Pulitzer Center on Conflict Reportng para viajar y reportar sobre la minería de oro en Rumanía. Ella ha estado basada en Roma, Italia desde 2007 donde ha estado trabajando diligentemente para contar historias de las vidas de la gente que la interesa y que compasivamente siente la necesidad de exponer.
