Nina Berman
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator. Her work 
explores American politics, militarism, environmental issues and post-violence trauma. She is the author of Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, (Trolley, 2004) portraits and interviews with wounded American veterans, Homeland, (Trolley, 2008) an examination of the militarization of American life post-9/11, and An autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer, 2017) a story told with a survivor of sexual violence that was shortlisted for the Aperture and Arles book awards. Other grants, awards and fellowships include: the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the Open Society Foundation, Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and the Aftermath Project.
His work has been exhibited in over 100 international venues, from the Whitney Museum Biennial to the concrete security walls of the Za’atari refugee camp. Her public collections include the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, the Harvard Art Museums and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She has participated in workshops for young photographers worldwide and is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the photojournalism and documentary photography program.