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TRACIE VAN AUKEN is a photojournalist and documentary photographer living in Philadelphia. She graduated with a degree in film production from the University of Southern California and has completed postgraduate work in visual communication at Ohio University. Her work has been recognized by the Lucie Foundation, the College Photographer of the Year Competition and the Florida Press Club. She has been a contributor to publications since 2001.
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GAIL ORENSTEIN has been a photojournalist for 26 years during which she has worked in 53 countries in Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Gail has covered political unrest, revolutions, natural disasters and wars in such locations as Albania, Russia, India, Israel, Egypt, Spain and Greece. She has worked as a photographer for The Chicago Immigration and Naturalisation office, for The Hillary Rodham Clinton Foundation, the Christian Children’s fund in Haiti documenting the AIDS outbreak. She covered the work of Eastern Europe European Outreach in Ukraine and Russia where she documented the lives of Russian prisoners. Gail has lived and worked in London for 15 years, and also teaches documentary photography to teens.
AGUNG PARAMESWARA was born on the resort island of Bali in Indonesia, in 1990. After his graduation from University in 2011, he worked as a freelance photo-journalist based in Bali. His images have been published in various publication such as TIME, The Guardian UK, The Daily Mail UK, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Rex Features, Reuters, The Jakarta Post Newspaper (Indonesia), Sunday Post Newspaper (Indonesia), Garuda Inflight Magazine and Tempo Magazine. His main focus is documenting the social culture of his homeland.
Born in 1980, Iranian freelancer SABA TAHERIAN got her bachelor degree in Accounting while acquiring a certificate in applied journalism. In 2008, she decided to pursue her dreams of becoming a photographer. The self-taught freelancer attended workshops in Istanbul, and started working for various local newspapers, websites, magazines. She also worked for organizations such as the Association for Protection of Refugee Women and Children in Afghanistan. In 2009, Iran’s English-language broadcasting network, Press TV, hired her as a photojournalist for the presidential campaigns. She currently lives in Tehran.
