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KRISTEN ASHBURN
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Kristen Ashburn is a documentary photographer based in New York City who has received numerous honors including the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism (2006, 2003), and two World Press Photo prizes (2005, 2003). She received the Getty Foundation Grant 2006, Canon’s Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography 2003. In 2004 she was recognized as one of Photo District News ‘30 under 30 photographers’
Ashburn’s work has taken her to Iraq a year following the US-led invasion; Israel and the Palestinian Territories where she produced stories on Jewish settlers in Gaza, suicide bombers, Palestinian youth and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat during his house arrest in Ramalla. She also covered the immediate aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka; and the spread of tuberculosis in the penal system in Russia.
Her photographs and stories from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa have appeared in many publications including Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Life and others.
She began to photograph the impact of AIDS in southern Africa in 2001.
All images are Copyrighted by Kristen Ashburn.
