Who Are the Judges?
Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. He has photographed in over 60 countries and his images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek and many other domestic and international publications. His work has received numerous awards and is exhibited worldwide. Kashi has completed nine major stories for the National Geographic and published four books including When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (Pantheon) and he is well-known for a growing body of work on the modern Middle East. In December 2002 Kashi with his wife, writer Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit company devoted to creating multi-media storytelling projects on issues that the general media does not address.
http://www.edkashi.com
Alison D. Nordström is Curator of Photography at George Eastman House, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the United States. She was the Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach from 1991 to 2001, and previously held positions involving photography at the Brattleboro (Vermont) Museum & Art Center and the Peabody Museum of Ethnography, Harvard. She has curated over 100 exhibitions of photography including the popular biennial series Fresh Work and major surveys of contemporary installation, landscape, portraiture and journalism. She has also worked extensively with historical photographs related to the construction of race and place. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays, and chapters, articles and reviews in academic publications. She holds a BA in English Literature, an MLS with museum emphasis, and a PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.
http://www.eastmanhouse.org
Anthony Richter is the Associate Director of the Open Society Institute. He is also Director of OSI's Middle East and North Africa Initiatives and the Central Eurasia Project. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the board of International League for Human Rights. Richter created EurasiaNet, a Central Eurasia Project website that provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental, and social developments in the countries, and he is convenor of the Central Eurasia Open Forum. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University. His languages are Russian, French and Persian.
http://www.eurasianet.org
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