Michael Robinson Chavez
American, b. 1969 Michael Robinson Chávez, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was captivated by photography when a friend gifted him a camera before a journey to Peru. Half Peruvian and a native Californian, Chávez has established himself as a prominent freelance visual journalist based in Valencia, Spain. Having completed a 15-year tenure at The Washington Post and previous roles at The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Associated Press, he has a rich background in photography. His lens has documented stories in over 75 countries, capturing significant events such as climate change’s effect on artisanal fishing in the Bay of Bengal, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela’s collapse, the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, California’s historic drought, the Egyptian revolution, gold mining in Peru, climate change in Siberia, the 2006 Hezbollah/Israel war, and cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of Congo. Chávez’s accolades include two Pulitzer Prizes, including for Explanatory...
Eduardo was born in 1975 into a Lebanese family in Cordoba, Argentina. He studied Economics and worked as an accountant before being inspired by legendary Czech photographer Josef Koudelka’s work...
Italian Selene Magnolia Gatti is an award-winning Italian freelance photojournalist based in Northern Italy and Berlin and accredited with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of...
Hungarian, 1982 Akos Stiller was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1982. From 2007 he worked as a staff photojournalist for Heti Világgazdaság (HVG), Hungary’s leading economic and political weekly, for...
David Blacker is an ethnographic and documentary photographer based in Colombo, specialising in the people, places, and culture of his native Sri Lanka. With a background in advertising, he recognises the...
Jonas Kakó studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the University of Hannover in Germany. Over the past years he has focused his work around the effects of the climate crisis....
Saiyna Bashir is a Pakistani photojournalist currently based in Islamabad, with a focus on documenting migration, gender, healthcare, and climate change in her images. She has photographed women who survived...
Mario Heller is a Berlin-based photographer whose work focuses on the relationship between our social structures and cultural backgrounds. Originally from Switzerland, he started out as a pastry chef but...
Jittrapon Kaicome is an independent photojournalist based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 2014, he began telling stories through his photography from his hometown during the annual air pollution crisis in northern...
Marco Garofalo started working in the field of photography over two decades ago as a traditional printer and as an assistant to fashion and advertising photographers. He then moved onto...
Lorenzo Maccotta is an award-winning photographer who works on personal, corporate, institutional and editorial projects. Lorenzo started working in documentary photography while completing his course in film studies at the...
“In my years photographing global health issues I have looked for the people behind the numbers, their vulnerability and their powerlessness. By creating arresting, not shocking, images I take a...
British, b. 1987 Bradley is a British freelance photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. He began his career freelancing across South and Central Asia from 2005 until 2010 and has been...
Ecuadorian, b. 1992 Johanna Alarcón is a photographer and storyteller based in Ecuador. Her work is focused on social justice, identity, and gender related issues. She is a National Geographic...