Projects
Offline: Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival), Italy. Originated the concept of Offline: Baghdad and founder of Offline Events – a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Italy, committed to bringing the voices and images of Iraqi filmmakers, journalists, photographers and performing artists to a worldwide audience. Organized Offline: Baghdad Film Festival, Italy (December 13 – 19, 2007) at Spazio8 in Milan. Organized Offline: Baghdad festival in Malta in collaboration with Kinemastik International Short Film Festival (July 7 – 14, 2008) and set in place future events in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation (Germany/Lebanon), The Tribeca Film Festival and Open Society Institute in New York. June 2007 to present.
Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York - Photography Exhibition Coordinator and Field Research
Organized Moving Walls exhibitions and photo documentary workshops throughout the Middle East working with OSI and local photographers and artists in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Damascus, Aleppo), and Northern Iraq (Sulaimaniya, Irbil). 2006 – June 2007.
Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004, coordinated the distribution of disposable cameras to Iraqi civilians to document the reality of their daily lives in collaboration with Daylight Foundation and curator of the work exhibited at The Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Spazio8, Milan, Italy, amongst other worldwide locations. 2004 - Dec. 07.
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know exhibition – November 2004, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Biococca for the Violence without Law Testimonies and Reflections towards Genocides and Crimes of War in a Global Age conference, Milan, Italy.
“Pandemic: Facing Aids,” Photography consultant and researcher to filmmaker Rory Kennedy and book publisher Nan Richardson (Moxie Firecracker Films, Umbrage editions, New York). The exhibition “Within Reach: Hope for the Global AIDS Epidemic” UN visitors lobby (Nov. 23, 2002 – Jan. 11, 2003) documents 20 years of AIDS through the work of photographers and artists from 50 countries.
“Can We Feed Ourselves: A Focus on Asia” editor/producer – worked in collaboration with World Watch Institute, NHK Television of Japan, The Rockefeller Foundation, Asia Society and the United Nations. Can We Feed Ourselves is a visual dossier on the growing crisis of food production, population and the environment in Asia.
Black Wind/White Land – Living with Chernobyl (deMo) – Chernobyl Children’s Project commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, UN. Proposal writer, researcher, book, and exhibition consulting editor.
Author of “Eradication of Land Mines: A Plan of Action (1997) – one of the first project proposals chosen for funding through the $1 billion pledged by Mr. Ted Turner to the UN. (Mine Services Division, UN Headquarters).
Proposal writer/researcher for UN Division of Children in Armed Conflict UN Messenger of Peace, Italian Journalist, and author, Anna Cataldi. (1996 – 2000). – Collaborated on 50 Years Later book project and exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “It Belongs to You” – a children’s passport size version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with collaboration with UN OHCHR.
Honorariums
Heinrich Boell Foundation, Lebanon, Awarded honorarium for "Double Jeopardy: Navigating the Space Between Home and Exile." June, 2008
International Scholars Fellowship, New School For Social Research, New York (2003-2005)
Photography
Judge 2005 – 2007, UNICEF Photography of the Year Award
Judge (2002, 2005) International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards, New York, New York
Judge (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) Overseas Press Club Awards, New York, New York
Guest Editor, Interfoto, annual International Photojournalism Festival, Moscow 2004
Covered aftermath of war in Iraq 2003 to 2005, US News & World Report/World Picture News
Covered war in Lebanon and aftermath, 2006, Dagbladet (Sweden), WPN, Associated Press
Exhibitions
Spazio8, Milan, Italy December 13 – 19, 2007, Offline: Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival)
Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany Winter 2004. Mass Graves, al Muhawail, Iraq.
Pixelpress –Dioxin levels Stung Meanchey garbage dump, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Publications
Graphis Photo Annual 2005, essay on photojournalism and covering war
Crimes of War What the Public Should Know, W.W. Norton, NY/London 1999. Editor/Research
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (2.0), W.W.Norton NY/London 2007 Editor/Research
Membership
Founder and Board Member of November 11 – internet based non profit formed from http://www.lightstalkers.org/ Started with 5 individuals now we have a base of over 30,000 photographers, writers, and NGO personnel around the world.
Languages
Fluent English, Moderate knowledge of Arabic, Spanish, basic level of Turkish, French
Offline: Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival), Italy. Originated the concept of Offline: Baghdad and founder of Offline Events – a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Italy, committed to bringing the voices and images of Iraqi filmmakers, journalists, photographers and performing artists to a worldwide audience. Organized Offline: Baghdad Film Festival, Italy (December 13 – 19, 2007) at Spazio8 in Milan. Organized Offline: Baghdad festival in Malta in collaboration with Kinemastik International Short Film Festival (July 7 – 14, 2008) and set in place future events in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation (Germany/Lebanon), The Tribeca Film Festival and Open Society Institute in New York. June 2007 to present.
Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York - Photography Exhibition Coordinator and Field Research
Organized Moving Walls exhibitions and photo documentary workshops throughout the Middle East working with OSI and local photographers and artists in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Damascus, Aleppo), and Northern Iraq (Sulaimaniya, Irbil). 2006 – June 2007.
Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004, coordinated the distribution of disposable cameras to Iraqi civilians to document the reality of their daily lives in collaboration with Daylight Foundation and curator of the work exhibited at The Council on Foreign Relations, New York, Spazio8, Milan, Italy, amongst other worldwide locations. 2004 - Dec. 07.
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know exhibition – November 2004, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Biococca for the Violence without Law Testimonies and Reflections towards Genocides and Crimes of War in a Global Age conference, Milan, Italy.
“Pandemic: Facing Aids,” Photography consultant and researcher to filmmaker Rory Kennedy and book publisher Nan Richardson (Moxie Firecracker Films, Umbrage editions, New York). The exhibition “Within Reach: Hope for the Global AIDS Epidemic” UN visitors lobby (Nov. 23, 2002 – Jan. 11, 2003) documents 20 years of AIDS through the work of photographers and artists from 50 countries.
“Can We Feed Ourselves: A Focus on Asia” editor/producer – worked in collaboration with World Watch Institute, NHK Television of Japan, The Rockefeller Foundation, Asia Society and the United Nations. Can We Feed Ourselves is a visual dossier on the growing crisis of food production, population and the environment in Asia.
Black Wind/White Land – Living with Chernobyl (deMo) – Chernobyl Children’s Project commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, UN. Proposal writer, researcher, book, and exhibition consulting editor.
Author of “Eradication of Land Mines: A Plan of Action (1997) – one of the first project proposals chosen for funding through the $1 billion pledged by Mr. Ted Turner to the UN. (Mine Services Division, UN Headquarters).
Proposal writer/researcher for UN Division of Children in Armed Conflict UN Messenger of Peace, Italian Journalist, and author, Anna Cataldi. (1996 – 2000). – Collaborated on 50 Years Later book project and exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “It Belongs to You” – a children’s passport size version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with collaboration with UN OHCHR.
Honorariums
Heinrich Boell Foundation, Lebanon, Awarded honorarium for "Double Jeopardy: Navigating the Space Between Home and Exile." June, 2008
International Scholars Fellowship, New School For Social Research, New York (2003-2005)
Photography
Judge 2005 – 2007, UNICEF Photography of the Year Award
Judge (2002, 2005) International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards, New York, New York
Judge (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) Overseas Press Club Awards, New York, New York
Guest Editor, Interfoto, annual International Photojournalism Festival, Moscow 2004
Covered aftermath of war in Iraq 2003 to 2005, US News & World Report/World Picture News
Covered war in Lebanon and aftermath, 2006, Dagbladet (Sweden), WPN, Associated Press
Exhibitions
Spazio8, Milan, Italy December 13 – 19, 2007, Offline: Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival)
Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany Winter 2004. Mass Graves, al Muhawail, Iraq.
Pixelpress –Dioxin levels Stung Meanchey garbage dump, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Publications
Graphis Photo Annual 2005, essay on photojournalism and covering war
Crimes of War What the Public Should Know, W.W. Norton, NY/London 1999. Editor/Research
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (2.0), W.W.Norton NY/London 2007 Editor/Research
Membership
Founder and Board Member of November 11 – internet based non profit formed from http://www.lightstalkers.org/ Started with 5 individuals now we have a base of over 30,000 photographers, writers, and NGO personnel around the world.
Languages
Fluent English, Moderate knowledge of Arabic, Spanish, basic level of Turkish, French
